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

[Sara Dornsife]

I like that. I too think that there are a lot similarities and a lot of 
cross posting to the two groups. I  agree with a consolidation.
Sara


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 2007??04??03?? 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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