Welcome to OpenSolaris User Groups
OpenSolaris User Groups (OSUGs) are sponsored by the Advocacy Community on opensolaris.org, and all the information you need to get involved is right here. Please subscribe to advocacy-discuss (subscribe, archives, forum) and osug-leaders (subscribe, archives) if you have any questions.
Join the Advocacy Community
- Register on auth.opensolaris.org: https://auth.opensolaris.org/register.action
- Subscribe to the advocacy-discuss list: sign up, archives, web forum
- Introduce yourself and participate
Join an OpenSolaris User Group
Look for user groups in your area. If you find one, simply join that group's list, introduce yourself, get to know the members, and participate.
Start a New OpenSolaris User Group
If there is no established user group in your area, you can propose that a new group be created and hosted on opensolaris.org. To get user group infrastructure on the website, which includes a project space and mailing list, send a short proposal to advocacy-discuss for approval. You need one +1 vote and no -1 votes, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for three days. Write your proposal in the following format:
- Name of your OpenSolaris User Group and the abbreviation for the URL. For example: Japan OpenSolaris User Group. JPOSUG. Please check the list of OSUGs for names and abbreviations that are already taken.
- Two or more initial participants listed with their opensolaris.org user IDs
- A short paragraph description of the group - including location (City, State, Country), activities planned, related organizations, etc. Keep it simple.
If your user group proposal is approved, the Advocacy facilitator will work with you to get your user group space set up via the Collective Life Cycle Instructions for creation. Also, note that the role of Advocacy Facilitator is open right now so if you are interested in volunteering see the Constitution and/or the Facilitation Project for details. Until the role is filled, Jim Grisanzio will fill in.
OSUG Leader Responsibilities on opensolaris.org
As a leader of your new user group, it is expected that you will maintain your project space and mail list (filter spam, add/remove names, communicate with the OpenSolaris webmaster and other community members on advocacy-discuss and osug-leaders, etc) - just as all the other project leads in the OpenSolaris Community. Please review the documents below so you are clear about website issues - especially the policy around mail list management. For instance, if lists are not used and properly managed, they can be deleted after a period of time.
Subscribe to the following lists:
Follow the appropriate website, trademark, project, and community policies:
- OpenSolaris Website Guidelines
- Collective Life Cycle Instructions
- OpenSolaris Trademarks
- Community/Project lead reference
Use the OpenSolaris slide templates for presentations (right click on the links to download the OpenOffice files):
IMPORTANT: Sun employees may not use Sun's internal corporate presentation templates for public presentations. Use the OpenSolaris presentation templates instead. Also, do not post to opensolaris.org any documents marked with "confidential" or "proprietary" or similar notices. If the information is not confidential and is appropriate for the community, please remove the confidential notice before posting. This is not optional. Documents marked "confidential" in any way can be deleted by the site administrator without notice.