[ug-discuss] Re: Adding Laura to User Group Page

[Phillip (Flip) Russell]

Might be a good idea for user group leads to publish
their contact into in case funding comes up to
ship some goodies to the user groups.

Related would be to post an estimate of how many
attendees show up on average to user group meetings.

Cheers,
Flip

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> [forwarding for Laura]
> 
> 
> Subject:
> Re: Adding Laura to User Group Page
> From:
> Laura Ramsey <Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM>
> Date:
> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:49:57 -0400
> To:
> ug-discuss at opensolaris.org
> CC:
> Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM
> 
> 
> Yes, a willing volunteer!  This morning I exchanged emails with Ginnie ( 
> FR-OSUG) and we started to brainstorm some of the resources that would 
> be cool to have together to help our OpenSolaris User Groups get up and 
> running.
> 
> A few things came to mind and maybe some can be done sooner than 
> others...but let's see if we can pool some ideas and resources and we'll 
> get them rounded up into the user group page as soon as we can.
> 
> 1--Speaker Support....seems like often the hardest part of keeping a 
> user group vital is in keeping cool speakers in the line up. I'm 
> thinking through how we can do that ...we need a light weight sort of 
> request mechanism. What would work for us?
> 
> 2--Swag--of course! T-shirts!...and Sara is doing a great job of getting 
> a process/online store in place. We can set up that process so it's a 
> click sort of thing.
> 
> 3--A newsletter of sorts--now, maybe that's simply editing the user 
> group main page so all the user groups can "visit" and read what each 
> are up to...kind of federating the feeling....ideas?
> 
> 4--A monthly User Group con call...like a OS-WWUG--just one hour. We can 
> have special guests attend. Like open source luminaries, or recent 
> contributors to the OpenSolaris project to discuss their putback... or I 
> don't know...Madonna!  Let's talk about that...any ideas there?
> 
> 5--Attendee recognition--attendees rack up points that are redeemable 
> for something special...we have to figure out what that is...maybe it's 
>  special swag, or a profile on the User Group Page...
> 
> 
> Any other ideas? This could be some big fun!
> 
> LKR
> 
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 
>  > I'm adding Laura Ramsey to the user group community page as an 
> editor. She's going to contribute to the effort from the OpenSolaris 
> marketing group ... she's got lots of good ideas to help out since she 
> ran user groups in a previous life.
>  >
>  > Jim
> 
> 
> 
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