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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Alan DuBoff wrote: > SVOSUG members, help us decide what to do with our user group in Silicon > Valley. > > I've been running SVOSUG for 3 years and quite honestly I'm getting bored > with the same old format...and we've had great presentations at SVOSUG, > I've been quite happy with the group over the past few years. However, I > don't believe it scales for the future, and I don't think user groups > offer the same advantage they used to, with the web, use of video, and > online-collaboration. > > I don't feel we're able to accomplish too much as a user group, and there > could be ways to expand and continue to grow the group in the future by > changing the format. > > A couple ideas that I have had are: > > 1) Shorter presentations so that folks could watch the content at their > leisure, even if they're not local. I think of lightning talks in this > regard, and could offer folks within the community to get up give a short > presentation that is 5 minutes, and scale out our community, not just > SVOSUG. The key here would be using the meeting to create content, as > we've been doing, but to make the content more usable. I haven't figured > out how to leverage it better. > > 2) Technical Architect Groups (TAGs) where a small group of folks with > common intersts can get together and work on something together. This > could possibly happen the same day as the meeting, and allow people to get > together and discuss something that they could go off and work on over the > next month. > > 3) More community participation from non-Sun folks. How can we get folks > to talk about things they're doing. As an example, have you built a nice > system that is low power, or small form factor? Have you been tunneling > through VMs on your network to allow users to access inside a Virtual Box > VM? How about ekiga, do you use it on OpenSolaris? > > 4) Possibly going around the room and just having people mention briefly > what they're working on, what they doing, and if people are interested in > such, they could talk after the meeting or in email/opensolaris.org. > > 5) ? (give a suggestion to something you think would work) > > I will open my call-in number which is toll-free so that if anyone would > like to voice an idea that is not local and/or how we can help you, please > do. > > Toll Free: 866-545-5227 > Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950 > Conference: 809-64-14 > > Please feel free to join us, for a drink, a snack, some good open source > talk, and a chance to talk to some of the OpenSolaris engineers. Feel free > to bring your own bottle, a snack, or something to share if inclined, no > entry required so feel free to join us without concern of bringing > something. > > When: Thursday, June 26, 2008 > Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA07, the Mansion) > What: Summer Thinktank > Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm > > Google Maps: > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=4070+George+Sellon+Circle,+Santa+Clara, > > SVOSUG Project Page, for video: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svosug/ > > If you haven't been to the Mansion before, as you enter the Sun campus on > Palm, from Lafayette, the Mansion is the first building on the left, as I > recall. There is parking all around, a small lot in the rear, parking on > Palm, and a huge lot on the other side of the Auditorium. > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group > -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
