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

[Sang Shin]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 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 ... :)

Just to introduce myself. My name is Sang Shin and I've been part
of Technology Outreach group headed by Matt Thompson.

A couple of things that might be relevant to this thread are

-The worldwide college students community actively engaged by
  Sun Campus Ambassadors (right now with more than 500 all over
  the world) is being introduced to OpenSolaris in a very active
  fashion.  (If you are subscribing ambassadors at sun.com alias,
  you will see lots of postings like "I gave presentation on
  OpenSolaris to my fellow students"...) This unique community
  (campus ambassadors) deserves a special attention.

-Our group is also actively engaged in supporting worldwide JUG
  (Java Users Group) community. Through pro-active approach
  we've taken during the past couple of years (Aaron Houston
  is doing a wonderful job constantly engaging sometimes
  hand-holding JUG leaders to the overall community agenda,
  the overall Java community benefited a lot in my opinion.
  I am assuming a similar approach will help OpenSolaris community
  as well.

Sang



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> Jim
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