[ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] French/European Open Solaris User Groups

[Laurent Blume]

Hello Jim, thanks for your answer,

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> If you are forming a user group in France, we'd love to give you guys a 
> page on opensolaris.org within the User Group Community:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/
> I can make you an editor on the main user group community and then open 
> a page specifically for your group so you can edit it on your own.

That would be great a great addition. Maybe the Solaris fr list 
currently hosted on x86.sun.com could move there?
It'd be easier than add a new page.

> If you need a way to communicate with the people in you user group, we 
> can give your group an opensolaris.org mail list so you can organize 
> meetings and talk and such. I'll need to have a name from you. Check the 
> format on the other user groups at the community link above. Keep in 
> mind, Europe is gigantic, and even France is large. Can you narrow it 
> down a bit to a city or region? Over time there could easily be a dozen 
> or more user groups in Europe.

At this point, our community is rather small and scattered. I believe 
that it might be easier to start with one or two rather larger, 
broad-reaching events to spread the word. Then, follow up later with 
more local ones and regular ones.

Just my opinion, of course.

> Sign up to the ug-discuss mail list, so you can communicate with the 
> other people who have formed user groups and linked them to 
> opensolaris.org.

Done!

> If you are meeting up with Sun marketing in France, that's great. Have 
> them get involved as well and get them to sing up to opensolaris.org so 
> they can edit your user group page as well.

I'(l be sure to tell them.

[snip very good answers]

Thanks, that'll help me for a start, and Simon's offer has been duly 
noted as well. I'll probably get back after meeting Sun France, on 
September 7.

Laurent