Jim Grisanzio wrote: > hey, > > I wanted to toss out some issues for discussion regarding the Advocacy > CG and the User Groups. Where are we going? How are we going to get > there? Who does what? > > I'd like to explore this because as the OpenSolaris distributions mature > and become easier to install and use, the OpenSolaris community will be > reaching out to extremely large numbers of users. That will be a new > experience for many of us. We have to think in terms of hundreds of > thousands of people using our stuff in many regions around the world -- > which means cutting across some big language, cultural, and technical > barriers. We already have user groups and country portals in many of > these regions, so how do we get people involved to help engage new > users? How do we establish closer relationships with the distro > developers both on and off opensolaris.org? How do we grow ourselves as > a CG at a reasonable pace? And how do we manage all those new questions > we'll get. :) I think Advocacy can easily set up some region-specific > lists that can be staffed with user group members from around the world > to answer questions and help new people out. Just one idea off the top > of my head.
That sounds like a good way to escalate. I think we could go a little beyond region-specific lists, at least in places where the community grows to a large number. Setting up UGs under a country/region portal would automatically decentralize things. Each country could have its own core group in charge of voting and creating UGs - as a country's community reaches some level of maturity (and size). Something hierarchical, OSUGs at the lowest level, then coutry/region and then advocacy. Regardless of the overall size of the community, the advocacy group will continue to handle core discussions and issues. Each country/region core group would report to advocacy. cheers -- Rafael Vanoni rafael.vanoni at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/rv
