[ug-discuss] User Group Community House Cleaning

[Jim Grisanzio]

Hi ...

I updated the user group leader page and put it into a grid (it used to 
be a list) with links to pages and lists:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/osug-leaders/

Let me know if there are any errors or changes or additions, and I'll 
keep updating. You'll see the holes where info is left out. I'd like to 
add links to the leader names, too, by pointing to the profile pages for 
contact info. Next rev.

I think a grid like this is better to easily look at what groups have 
pages on the site, what groups have lists only, what groups have lists 
on opensolaris.org or lists Google or Yahoo. As the user group community 
grows, this will probably diversify even more than it is now, so one 
snapshot page is handy.

There are six groups that have hidden pages, so these are the groups 
that were requested but never got off the ground or haven't put up any 
content yet -- we ask groups to try to post some initial content, such 
as the names of leaders and locations, etc, so we don't have a lot of 
empty pages when groups first get going.

Also ... a reminder: When you have meetings and you want to post 
materials, don't forget to send your slides or audio/video or photos to 
Tim Foster or this ug-discuss list, and he'll put them on the preso page 
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/ so 
we can all share materials. I see that many groups are posting within 
their own pages, which is good too. There's a lot of content now, so 
congratulations.

There have been several new groups added recently, so I put those in 
alphabetic order in the nav bar.

Maybe we should start thinking about re-freshing the content on the main 
ug community page http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/ 
For instance, I'd like to add a page to outline the process of getting a 
user group space on opensolaris.org. We discuss this on list, but it's 
not really documented anywhere in detail, so I'll do that this week.

Jim