Martin Bochnig wrote:
> But for small UG's it might always be difficult to find a sponsor.
> And in Ukraine {#1} (almost the biggest European country [and a big
> market] and the direct geographic centre of Europe), there is not any
> activity at all.
>
We`ve been trying to do more with the UGs [1] over the last year or so.
Sun kicked in some cash for kits (CDs, books, shirts, etc) last year,
and we are repeating the program right now [2]. That`s not sponsorship,
of course, but if an OSUG is going to hold a large event or a
conference, we do try to send them some stuff (if we have it at the
time). Also, Teresa started a thread on advocacy-discuss and
osug-leaders about other things the company can do to engage the UGs
more [3]. To me, this is an issue of not only what Sun can do to help
but also what the community can do for itself (along the lines of what
Mozilla does). It`s not directly related to governance, per say, but it
surely makes governance easier if we are all moving in the same direction.
Jim
[1] http://opensolaris.org/os/usergroups/
[2] http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=83223&tstart=0
[3] http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=95331&tstart=0
