Re: [ug-discuss] [ANN] French User Group created / création du GUSES

[Laurent Blume]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> So nice to hear from you again. Congrats on forming your group in 
> France. I'll have to visit some day.

Sorry for not doing it earlier, but lots of work and 2 weeks of 
vacations in California got in the middle :-)

> When you say Sun is committed to supporting your group, I assume you are 
> talking about an arrangement you have with Sun in France. Is that 
> correct? Or are you speaking more informally?

We've been in contact with them for some already. They preferred the 
formal association for easier legal communication and help with 
resources, such as lending a room for meetings.
Also, yesterday, somebody from marketing (I think) called Bruno Bonfils 
to get information for an official Sun France press release. It was 
going to be distributed today, at a Linux Solutions event in Paris.
I don't know yet if that's been done, I sure hope so!

Now, we'll have to talk to them to prepare meetings, and maybe get 
speakers, and swag. Obviously, French-speaking ones will be preferred, 
but we thought that having a few English-speaking ones would be very 
valuable. Personalities, such as yourself, can obviously be of great 
interest!

> Back in Sept we set up a page for your group on opensolaris.org. Please 
> feel free to use that space to promote your group and your activities -- 
> just as the other groups are doing here in the User Group Community. We 
> really shouldn't keep empty pages on the site for too long. If you are 
> not going to use the page, I'll pull it down, but we'd most welcome your 
> content in French. :)

Yes, I've been late on that side too. One of the reason is that there is 
already the Sun-sponsored Solaris fr list, and we weren't sure about how 
to move it to the OpenSolaris server.
But right now, I'd be very happy to have access to that page, and fill 
it up, present the group and give more links. Is that possible? Whom to 
contact?

Also, what is the possibility of a mailing list there?
I admit I'm unsure about what would be the best to migrate the existing 
Solaris fr list (which is about all kinds of Solaris): part of the ug-* 
list, like ug-guses at opensolaris, or something like the Romanian list, 
which is ro-users-discuss, and not really part of the OpenSolaris site.
(and of course, ug-frosug has already been stealthily stolen ;-)
Basically, would all Solaris topics fit in an ug- list, including 
technical and assistance questions for older versions?

Thanks for your help!

Laurent