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

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey, Tim ...


Tim Foster wrote On 04/06/07 16:59,:
> hi Folks,
> 
> Sorry for not chiming in till now.
> 
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to propose that we merge the Marketing Community and the User 
>> Group Community:
> 
> 
> I agree. I've always thought it'd be really nice if these groups could
> work more closely together - indeed, putting up the "talks &
> presentation" pages and the "how you can help opensolaris marketing"
> pages was definitely targeting both communities.
> 
> As they put it in the Life Of Brian, "Brothers, we should be struggling
> together!" ;-)
> 
> I also like the idea of each ug getting it's own project - if even for
> the nicer URLs it'll generate. One comment about a recent IEOSUG poster 
> we did, was that
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/ie-osug/iosug-9
> doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.


Oh, come on, that's a perfectly lovely url. :) I agree, though, a 
project space will be an excellent solution to offer UGs and clean up 
site issues right now.


> Advocate seems like a nice name to me, though I think I prefer
> Ambassador[1] - it's a gentler term than Advocate, which like
> Evangelist suggests to me some sort of foaming-at-the-mouth zealot
> (though not nearly as strongly as Evangelist does)
> 
> Ambassador would imply that we're a more diplomatic bunch than that.
> 


Ok, cool, so the list grows:

* Ambassador Community
* Advocates Community
* Evangelism Community or Evangelization Community
* Outreach Community

More candidates welcome ...


Jim




> I'm easy about the name though - it's what we do that's important.
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>             tim
> 
> 
> [1] This might confuse some Sun-employees I admit. There are
> programmes inside Sun where sales engineers can become
> "OS Ambassadors", "Network Ambassadors", etc. potential
> confusion there if there's ever an Sun-internal "OpenSolaris
> Ambassador" programme. However, what those guys do, and what
> we do is virtually the same thing:
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimlaurent/entry/what_is_a_sun_os
>