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

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> The OGB has started the community reorganization discussion:
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000289.html
>
> And the merger of the Marketing and User Group Communities is on their list 
> for consideration. We clearly have consensus here to do this based on this 
> thread, but I'm not sure we have any consensus on a name yet.
>
> Here are the suggestions I have so far:
>
>  * Ambassador Community
>  * Advocates Community
>  * Evangelism Community
>  * Evangelization Community
>  * Outreach Community
>
> I like Advocates best. The OpenSolaris Advocates Community.
>
> If you like, chime in with your opinion on the name specifically and we'll 
> see if we can get some consensus.

Jim,

Is this for community people, even if we're from a defunct community?

Evidentally I'm involved with a community that failed to respond to 
repeated inquiries to represent opensolaris, so we're now consider 
defunct. I'm unclear if our input is even needed.

I'm not sure if my user group community is defunct or not, I didn't 
responsd to any repeated inquiries there either, so it must be...:-/

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group