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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Alan DuBoff wrote On 04/26/07 11:01,:
> 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.



The SVOSUG list is here:
   http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/admin/

The SVOSUG form is here:
   http://opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=61

The SVOSUG page is here:
   http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/svosug/

Not sure what you are talking about, Alan. :)


Jim


>> 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...
> 
> -- 
> 
> Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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