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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Thanks, Flip. I asked all the leads to put themselves on this list when 
I made them editors on the ug community for their pages. Most did, but a 
few forgot so I just added them right now. So, all the user group 
leads/editors listed on the main page are on this list now.

As far as your attendees question ... Alan's SV group gets between 30-50 
per meeting. I've gone to three of their meetings but missed the one 
this week.

Jim



Phillip (Flip) Russell wrote:
> 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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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
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