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

[Stephen Lau]

my missing [1] footnote should be "though, keep in mind the English
invented English before Americans bastardised it".

cheers,
steve

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:58:49PM -0700, Stephen Lau wrote:
> 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.
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Bruno Peres Ferreira de Souza                         Brazil's JavaMan
> > http://www.javaman.com.br                      bruno at javaman.com.br
> >         if I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe
> > 
> > 
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