[ug-discuss] OpenSolaris User Group Growth

[Stefan Parvu]

Hi Tim,

> We sort of have this at
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/content/newsletter/
>  but it's monthly, not quarterly - it'd be nice if there was more
> content here though. Something like an external version of the 
> Sun-internal (sorry) Technocrat newsletter would make for excellent 
> reading.

yeah, maybe we should really have a nice e-magazine with some technical 
content quarterly. On this magazine people should be able to read:

  - OpenSolaris technologies
  - Other open source projects on OpenSolaris: Perl 6, Python 3
etc.
  - Success stories
  - Local Groups

How can we get people interested about this ? Well, first we will need 
to setup a small group which should publish the magazine. Layout, 
content... Then we should look for authors, insiders and outsiders
of OpenSolaris.

I would vote to have a fee for this, something symbolic like 5-10e/year


> There've been a few attempts to get people to contribute to this sort
> of thing, the Content community, for example (from which came some some
> excellent articles on Install and another good one on VMware)

We need better integration with other communities I think: Perl, Python 
folks. This will take time. We need to participate as well on YAPC and 
maybe some other scripting conferences, by showing OpenSolaris
how interacts with other technologies and projects... then people will 
follow.

Cheers,
Stefan