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

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Miles Nordin wrote:

>>>>>> "ad" == Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> writes:
>
>    ad> I'm not sure if my user group community is defunct or not, I
>    ad> didn't responsd to any repeated inquiries there either, so it
>    ad> must be...:-/
>
> The list I was on, ug-nycosug at opensolaris.org, just got removed.  It
> might have been nice to send a ``we're removing this list because
> ______'' mail to the list before deleting it, but no worries, I
> figured it out. :)

Maybe you didn't respond to a message posted in another group, I've found 
out that happens.

> I'm involved in several users' groups in the NYC area that work really
> well, but I think maybe the group needs to be somewhat independent of
> the vendors it discusses, like NYLUG, NYCBUG, and Unigroup are.
> Sometimes vendors like IBM or Apple give these groups meeting space,
> and sometimes Unigroup makes ``field trips'' to Sun, but all those
> groups run their own mailing lists, web sites, and board elections.

I've been involved in a few user groups myself. Maybe my user group is 
gone, I'll have to go look and see if we're still in the user group 
community. Chances are it's gone also, I don't remember responding to any 
inquiries.

> Keeping our NYC users' groups outside Sun will also solve the problem
> we had on ug-nycosug, where we had a mailing list but no actual group
> to use it.  At best, we had Brian Gupta and I discussing the
> possibility of meeting right before the mailing list was quietly
> deleted.

Yeah, we used ot have a group of folks that got together and met for 
drinks to talk about Solaris, before OpenSolaris existed. A bunch of us 
would get together and toss cold ones, but it wasn't funded or setup by 
anyone at Sun. I guess we just didn't get the big picture or something...

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group