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

[Michal Pryc]

Laurent Blume wrote:
> 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 
>   
Laurent,
I agree with you that we can not make everyone happy, but maybe there 
should be some sort of user-group tree, with tags? so each user-group 
should have tags

like: language, region, country, etc...
and the people would be able to access the user-group by tag, so for 
example all French talking user-groups, or all French talking group from 
Brittany or all languages user-groups from Brittany.

In this case we would have very nice access to them.

best
Michal Pryc