[ug-discuss] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Tim Foster]

hi Folks,

Sorry for not chiming in till now.

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> I'd like to propose that we merge the Marketing Community and the User 
> Group Community:

I agree. I've always thought it'd be really nice if these groups could
work more closely together - indeed, putting up the "talks &
presentation" pages and the "how you can help opensolaris marketing"
pages was definitely targeting both communities.

As they put it in the Life Of Brian, "Brothers, we should be struggling
together!" ;-)

I also like the idea of each ug getting it's own project - if even for
the nicer URLs it'll generate. One comment about a recent IEOSUG poster 
we did, was that
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/ie-osug/iosug-9
doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.


Advocate seems like a nice name to me, though I think I prefer
Ambassador[1] - it's a gentler term than Advocate, which like
Evangelist suggests to me some sort of foaming-at-the-mouth zealot
(though not nearly as strongly as Evangelist does)

Ambassador would imply that we're a more diplomatic bunch than that.

I'm easy about the name though - it's what we do that's important.


	cheers,
			tim


[1] This might confuse some Sun-employees I admit. There are
programmes inside Sun where sales engineers can become
"OS Ambassadors", "Network Ambassadors", etc. potential
confusion there if there's ever an Sun-internal "OpenSolaris
Ambassador" programme. However, what those guys do, and what
we do is virtually the same thing:
http://blogs.sun.com/jimlaurent/entry/what_is_a_sun_os

-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
				  http://blogs.sun.com/timf