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

[Laurent Blume]

Michal Pryc a écrit :
> I will add 2 euros to this discussion ;) This is good point, I would
> say that the groups should be better organized by regions The page: 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/osug-leaders/
> 
> lists the groups by countries, but actually in one country there
> might be many user-groups, like region user-group or university one.
> 
> In this case people would know what is happening in their area, and
> be able to make their own meetings, presentations etc. not only on
> the other side of the country.
> 
> Whou would like to drive >50km each month to go to the user-group
> meeting?

There is another case: our French-speaking Solaris UG (ug-fosug) is
that, French-speaking. We're focusing on the common language, worldwide,
not on a specific geographic region.

To give some more details:
It stems from it's origin: there was first a French-speaking Solaris
mailing list, created more than 2 years ago, that turned into a UG
later, when the mailing list moved on opensolaris.org.
There is a now a formal association, based in Paris, France, because it
eased the relationship with Sun, but already, with founding members in
Canada and France.
Since then, the community itself expanded much larger, with people from
Belgium, Switzerland, North Africa...
We're a community that does both real-life meetings, and online discussions.

So I like to stress out that while I'm not opposed to some sort of
regional separation, it won't fit every need. I do not see a point in
splitting up our community right now.

Laurent