[osol-mktg] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Peter Tribble]

On 4/3/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> 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/
...
> So, any thoughts pro or con?

I'm sort of split, and if that's all that happens I'm against it.

What I think is flawed with the current structure is the idea that there's
a "user group community" and that user groups live under that community.
I think that's wrong. User groups are, well, user groups and ought to be
first-class citizens in their own right, alongside communities and not
placed underneath.

Certainly under my understanding of the constitution user groups themselves
should be completely divorced from communities. I don't see LOSUG, for
example, as a natural outcome of the the UG community being directed by
the OGB to go do focussed management and accomplishment of objectives.

With that in mind, what is the role of the user group community? It's not
managing user groups, but it can offer support - materials, suupport,
infrastructure. And there is overlap with what might be called marketing. So,
in that context, merging it with the marketing community to form an
outreach community would make sense.

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