An option is doing an audio recording, and put that on a wiki with a summary of the audio, with mugshots of the participants. I think genunix wiki would be great for that (I can host the audio if needed)
A poor mans podcast of this historic event on Thursday would be great, especially if the bridge line audio quality goes south as it did last time. Perhaps someone can stick a digital recording device on the podium, a Macbook pro with OSX would work ;). Thanks, Jordan On 5/21/07, Christopher Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Christopher Mahan wrote: > > > But you do work at Sun, and Sun benefits from Solaris adoption... > > Alright, not going there. I appreciate your non-paid efforts. :) > > I think it's right "not to go there", although you did. Yeah, sorry about that. > I would have to suggest that for someone that has come to this > community > recentley, and has contributed very little yet, but demanding that > Sun do > specific things for you, is just not going to set very well for > folks like > me. I'm sorry if you don't like my response, but I have an idea for > you to > participate, read on... Hey, Sun/OpenSolaris is asking how they can get people interested, how best to grow a community. My telling what it would take to get me interested is aligned with that goal, no? > I won't say there's a 0 chance, but probably close to it. But this > is > where a person like you could help out, and contribute to the > community, > by creating the transcript from the recording. How about it? If I > have the > recording ready for you, could you work on that the night of the > meeting > after we're done? I would be willing to do that, but for a three hour meeting, I would need about 9-12 hours to do the transcription. I probably need until Sunday night. Also, having any speaking participants introduce themselves would be good for the transcript. > Oh, I didn't realize you have such a hard time getting together > with your > existing friends. Full time job, wife, school, 2 year old kid. friends all over the world (France, Japan, many US states... even in socal most are more than 1 hour drive away) > Expecting others to do work for you is not > reasonable as > far as attending user groups, the real advantage is in being there, > > talking to people, and being a part of it. Where do you live? Maybe > there > is another user group in your area that you can attend. If you're > in > SoCal (you mentioned CSUN, I went there and grew up in the SF > Valley), > there's a user group that meets in El Segundo. El Segundo is too far on weekday nights. 405 is a nightmare until 7:30Pm. It would take 1.5 hours to get there (less on lucky days) > > Taking a step back, though, I see that the Local User Group > concept > > is showing its age in the tiny digital flat world we live in. > > Well, I have been one of the people that has been trying to expand > my > meetings over the web, so that more than just local people could > join. I > have been the one looking for a software solution that would allow > that to > happen. I have suggested to the OpenSolaris folks that it is > important for > our community to have such a way to scale the user groups and move > away > from existing mediums to do so. Unfortunately it hasn't happened > yet, but > trust me, you're preachin' to the choir!;-) Good! > This may also be another area you could help us with. If you have > software > that would work for us to have such a broadcasted meeting across > the web, > or you could get some opensource software working in that capacity, > it > would also benifit not just SVOSUG, but all OpenSolaris user groups > within > our community. Again, any help would be appreciated, since this > community > actually thrives on the members of it that contribute back. Any > help that > you can contribute to this effort, it will make it all stronger as > a > whole. In short, there's opportunity for you to make a difference, > to make > things better for others that you see as being defecient for > yourself. > Hopefully this makes sense. Makes sense. I'll take a look at that. Can't promise much, because short of videoconferencing, there's going to be some severe experience degradation. An option is doing an audio recording, and put that on a wiki with a summary of the audio, with mugshots of the participants. I think genunix wiki would be great for that (I can host the audio if needed) IRC + logs on the web is another option. More conversational less presentational, I think. Although you lose a lot of the situational value. Secondlife? Don't know how to get transcripts out of there though. Chris Mahan 818.943.1850 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.christophermahan.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
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