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

[Stephen Lau]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:40:10PM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 
> 
> Stephen Hahn wrote On 04/06/07 11:43,:
> >* Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> [2007-04-05 16:13]:
> >
> >>If we don't put them in a meta-community, though, then we don't really
> >>have a place for them under the current site structure. I know that
> >>people want a wiki feature on the site and that's being specified
> >>right now, so maybe individual UGs can take a wiki page someplace and
> >>we can remove the UG community altogether. That's certainly an option
> >>as well. But I agree: the current set up can't scale at all.
> >
> >
> >  *cough* Projects *cough*
> >
> >  My name suggestion (really Simon's from a year ago or so):  Advocates.
> >
> >  - Stephen
> 
> 
> 
> Oh, cool, I like that. Ok. :) I'm an idiot.
> 
> And we can do that right now without any merger or need to propose new 
> site changes, and it solves the immediate structural problem with the UG 
> community. UGs can still have their own spaces/lists and still 
> communicate across groups via ug-discuss. Each existing user group 
> becomes a project, and new user groups can go through the same project 
> proposal process currently in place.
> 
> I like Advocates, too. We now have three possible names: Advocates, 
> Evangelism, Outreach. I see little consensus for a merger, but if we can 
> solve the structural problem with the UG community that would go a long 
> way to making that community more effective.
> 
> I say we do it. Other comments?

I'm actually in favour of the merger, as long as the name changes to one
of those 3.  I like Advocates, but fear it overlaps with the terminology
of CRT Advocates and RTI Advocates, etc. 

cheers,
steve
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