[osol-mktg] Re: [ug-discuss] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Stephen Lau]

Maybe rename it to the 'Evangelisation' community (or Evangelization if
you feel opposed to British spelling[1]), since that is something that
is clearly common to both marketing and user groups.

cheers,
steve

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:19:44AM -0300, Bruno F. Souza wrote:
> 
> On the UG community, we could include the Mkt content as a clearly  
> separated, on the top, and merge it with any general content for  
> supporting the creation and run of UGs.
> 
> The question then becomes: if someone comes looking for OS User  
> Groups, they will know how to find. Now, if someone comes looking for  
> material to promote OS? Will they find it at the UGs Community? Will  
> this be obvious?
> 
> Bruno.
> 
> On 03/04/2007, at 00:41, Xin-Feng Liu wrote:
> 
> >I agree on the idea.
> >The only comment is to make sure not to lower the visibility of
> >marketing community/contents. In the current user_group home page 
> >(on the
> >left side of the screen), the user group list is too long and not very
> >easy to look up. It might be better to reorganize the content in that
> >screen section.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Xinfeng Liu
> >Shanghai User Group
> >
> >
> >Jim Grisanzio wrote On 2007Äê04ÔÂ03ÈÕ 11:25,:
> >>Hello ...
> >>
> >>I'd like to propose that we merge the Marketing Community and the  
> >>User
> >>Group Community:
> >>
> >>   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/
> >>   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/
> >>
> >>It seems to me that both communities could benefit from a merger --
> >>especially under the new OpenSolaris Constitution. Both  
> >>communities have
> >>many things in common -- they engage new people around the world via
> >>various programs and direct meetings and conferences, their list
> >>memberships are pretty similar, and they share some content as  
> >>well. It
> >>would seem to make sense that they merge to focus their resources on
> >>some common goals and under a new name.
> >>
> >>I'm starting this conversation here so we can flush out the issues  
> >>and
> >>agree (or not agree) before we go to the website team and the OGB,  
> >>both
> >>of which will have to be involved in any merger.
> >>
> >>So, any thoughts pro or con?
> >>
> >>Jim
> >
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> 
> Bruno.
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