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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Bruno F. Souza wrote On 04/03/07 14:19,:
> 
> 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?


hey, Bruno ... and welcome! :)

Good points. And we'd have to make UGs quite obvious within the new
community since the'd be a core part of that communty.

Jim



> 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年04月03日 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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