Stefano, FYI, following attachment was my experience I shared with Yoyo Chiang a week ago.
If you want to some input from me regarding howto, I will be glad to help you. Thanks. ===================== Hi, This is Jaesuk Ahn, a coordinator of Korea community. :) Nice to hear that you are forming user group in Taiwan. >> 1. How is your User Group organized? Do you have formal organization (ex: head, manager, member) to operate such a group? We did not have a formal organization when forming a user group first time. A small set of people (mostly my team members) created user group website, and organized launching seminar. Then, we contacted other open source communities (such as ubuntu user group, some developer communities) to spread words about newly formed openstack user group. In addition, we also contacted a government organization that supports open source / developer community to promote our launching event. Luckily, we were able to gather about 100 people to attend our user group launching seminar, and a community manager of Openstack.org visited and presented at our launching seminar. (if you ask for help, openstack.org is always willing to find a way to help newly formed user group.) Once we had a successful launching event, we tried to gather more people to help running user group. We (a founding member) had to put our effort for several months till other people started participating user group management activity. Now, we have more people working/helping us to run openstack user group. >> 2. How often does your group have event? Including F2F and web-based event? We had three official tech. seminars in this year. In addition, more than five presentations at various seminars / conferences. Most communications are happening through the community website and our facebook group. We are also running Wiki. >> 3. How to manage the budget/cost for the above event? Sponsor by member or participating companies? At the initial phase, we got a budget support from the company I am working for. After that, we have been getting a budget help from a government organization and partner companies. (Actually, some of community members were able to work on a small government project with openstack technology, and we were able to use some of project budge for the community.) Now, openstack user group has been recognized as a good open source community, and we are able to work with other open source communities on various aspects. Hope it will help you. Best Wishes, On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Stefano Maffulli <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Yoyo > > this is definitely a recurring question. We should probably start > collecting some experiences from around the world and formalize them in > a short guide. > > A starting point in general for user groups is the old HOWTO for Linux > User Groups http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-4.html > > It's a long document so we'd have to shorten it and adapt to OpenStack. > Is anybody interested in helping writing a howto for OpenStack user > groups? > > /stef > > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 11:45 +0800, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear User Group Coordinators, > > > > In forming a local user group in Taiwan, can you share some ideas about > the following issues? > > > > 1. How is your User Group organized? Do you have formal organization > (ex: head, manager, member) to operate such a group? > > 2. How often does your group have event? Including F2F and web-based > event? > > 3. How to manage the budget/cost for the above event? Sponsor by member > or participating companies? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Yoyo Chiang > > > > Strategy & Business Division > > CCMA / ITRI > > Tel : +886-3-591-4561 > > Fax : +886-3-583-8246 > > Mobile : +886-988-580-206 > > Email : [email protected] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang= > [email protected] [mailto: > openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang=itri.org...@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] list of member corporate > > > > Hi Frans, > > > > Do you mean this page? > > http://openstack.org/community/companies/ > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Yoyo Chiang > > > > Strategy & Business Division > > CCMA / ITRI > > Tel : +886-3-591-4561 > > Fax : +886-3-583-8246 > > Mobile : +886-988-580-206 > > Email : [email protected] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang= > [email protected] [mailto: > openstack-community-bounces+yoyochiang=itri.org...@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Frans Thamura > > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:22 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Openstack-community] list of member corporate > > > > hi all > > > > i am seeking in openstack.org, the page that show all companies behind > openstack > > > > like dell etc. > > > > i cannot find it > > > > http://openstack.org/projects/ > > -- > > Frans Thamura (曽志胜) > > Chief of Advisory > > Meruvian. > > Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider. > > > > Mobile: +628557888699 > > Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id) > > > > FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian > > TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian > > Website: http://www.meruvian.org > > > > "We grow because we share the same belief." > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > ==================================================================== > > 本信件可能包含工研院機密資訊，非指定之收件者，請勿使用或揭露本信件內容，並請銷毀此信件。 > > This email may contain confidential information. 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