Alexander Gnodtke wrote: >> You could treat this as an OpenSolaris User Group pretty easily. You could >> create a name such as Lending OpenSolaris User Group, Caring OpenSolaris >> User Group, OpenSolaris Community Lending Group or something like that. >> That would be a legal fair use. And as your UG lends, they`d be lending on >> behalf of themselves as members of the OpenSolaris Community. It`s also an >> easy way to publicize your group within the OpenSolaris community because we >> could give you some space on opensolaris.org and a mailing list and send you >> some stuff to give out (which we do for all OSUGs when we have the >> resources). >> > > Indeed setting up an OSUG and having the benefit of some web space on > opensolaris.org sounds good and I can initiate the process. I guess it > is ok to be part of more than one OSUG? >
Of course. I'm on all 109 UG lists! :) >> And, actually, the more I think of it ... Treating this as an OSUG could be >> cool because it would not be a geography-specific group like the rest of the >> OSUGs. It would be a global project treated as a UG on our site. That would >> be the clear link to opensolaris.org, and then you`d have your own space on >> kiva.org as well. >> > > Because this OSUG is not geography specific you would have to change > the consitution draft you blogged about a few days ago, because it > specifically states that OSUG need to be geographically bound :-) > Yah, I know. Good catch. I don't really like that but we settled on it because we have three groups: User Groups, Communities, and Projects. Projects are easy to define, but Communities and User Groups get a bit more difficult. I preferred the term Special Interest Group or SIG instead of Community, but that's what we came out with. So, in that context, geo-based groups really do define user groups in most cases. It's not perfect, but there you have it. I think I could make an argument for this being a user group, but we have another tool to solve the problem as well. You could skip the UG angle and just propose a new Community: "OpenSolaris Community Lending Group". Or, another option, which would be much faster, is to just propose a Project sponsored by the Advocacy Community. Advocacy sponsors a few projects (as well as all the OSUGs) and we can certainly do more. > Maybe it would be interesting to found VOSUG vosug is taken by the guys in Venezuela. > (if the name is not yet > taken) Virtual OSUG which can act as an OSUG for all those that do not > have an OSUG in their vicinity. Events could for example be hosted in > SecondLife, meetings could be held in chatrooms etc. and it could be > used as the OpenSolaris lending group on kiva.org. Or am I taking the > idea a little too far? > Not at all. I'd buy that. But, talking this out as we are, I think under our /current/ system you'd be a Project sponsored by Advocacy and under the /new/ system (if approved) you'd be a Community. This is easy to solve. > The badges found here are just beautiful artwork and would fit the purpose > well: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/mktgdownloads/fanbuttons/ > Perfect. Go for it. > But of course if you recommend going with fair use I would check for > images on flickr.com, I think you posted a few pictures tagged with > opensolaris. Maybe there is a specific one you could recommend? > Not really. There are thousands up there! Enjoy the search ... :) Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
