[ug-discuss] Re: First Venezuelan OpenSolaris user's group Thursday 29

[Jim Grisanzio]

Pedro Gomez wrote:

> Hi Kathy,
> 
> We had our first meeting and was quite exciting. 40 people showed up and we had about 3 hours on OpenSolaris in Caracas. http://blogs.sun.com/enelcentro has myblog on the event.
> 
> The call for leaders was the last section of the talk. in our case 8 people stayed to participate in the leadership activities. We are basically wanting to have them , the comunity, to drive the vosug activities and have us (Sun) be more of a sponsor of the events (sodas, pizza, speakers, contacts, etc.). 
> The first thing to do in our case was to setup the frequency of meetings. (every 29 of month, or around that day on thursday preferably). then the topics of discussions (work sessions) proposed. The group of leaders will have an active role in determining what interests are in doing things withing the group. For instance in our case, there is a big interest in Security and also in understanding what do I need to build a distribution from opensolaris.
> 
> Pedro



Congrats, Pedro. Getting 40 people for a first meeting is excellent, so 
there clearly is a lot of interest where you are. And thanks for letting 
the group know.

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/