[ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates

[Alan DuBoff]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:43 am, Ben Rockwood wrote:
>   I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick
> overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting.  Nothing grand or
> anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big
> changes or projects that are in the works, etc.  You could do it or I
> could.  It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying
> much attention.

I try to offer any news I know about, and everyone is certainly welcome to 
chime in, yourself included. Don't be shy! I try to encourage audience 
participation as much as I can, but feel free to pipe in.

>   In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at
> the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful too.
> Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might be a good
> idea.  The only problem with introductions generally seems to be that we
> have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 minutes that not
> everyone is there.

This is typically a waste of time to do all the time. Best to utilize the 
networking time that we do have to find out who those folks are yourself, 
IMO. This is true of most every user group.

>  What are your feelings?  I'm following your lead and CC'ing to
> ug-discuss.  Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other
> "meeting flow" type suggestions.

I think that's what it's for, but don't think there are many folks from the 
community on it. It seems we should use our own private list possibly, and 
encourage others in the area to sign up for it.

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Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering