[opensolaris-summit] Advocacy Panel Discussion: An Idea for Discussion

[Jim Grisanzio]

Colin Charles wrote:
> Would be of great interest to me as well. There are many parallels in 
> growing and building community that we can share, with regards to 
> OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org and MySQL
>
> The conversation will also provide good fodder for the CommunityOne 
> event, I'm sure
>
>   

Yah, I'd love to hear more from other communities about this. I've been 
heads down so much in OpenSolaris these past four years that I don't 
know much of anything else (as pathetic as that sounds). Although I met 
with a couple of MySQL guys recently 
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/mysql_meeting_at_sun_japan and 
learned a great deal about looking at community building somewhat 
differently. We are different from MySQL, obviously, but the notion of 
building a large user community from a perspective that is /not/ 
marketing and /not/ engineering is interesting. And, of course 
OpenOffice has a pile of users out there, so they ought to know tons 
about this.

Please stop by ... :)

Jim

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