I attended the Oracle IOUC conference call last night, and I'm trying to ask some questions and get some conversation going on list. See my comments throughout the growing thread on advocacy-discuss and osug-leaders.

Personally, I am not on the UG team at Oracle. I'm still on the original OpenSolaris team on which I started in 2004. So, I don't have any inside information about any of these new programs. I'm just trying to help facilitate any transitions going on. Also, I've been directly involved in the OSUGs since the beginning of OpenSolaris, and I'm proud of what we've accomplished over the years -- when many people out there said we couldn't do it. But change is clearly here. And I strongly encourage OpenSolaris community members to fully engage in these conference calls verbally and give feedback in writing on list. I subscribed the Oracle UG team mailing list to advocacy-discuss and osug-leaders, so posting there is fine. The Oracle team will see your comments. And they are directly asking for your comments. The time is now, guys. There is now a direct connection for the OpenSolaris User Groups to Oracle. Take it. See this as an opportunity to build on what we've done before, and perhaps to move in a new direction. Get in there and pitch your stuff. That's the only way we can educate Oracle about what we've done, and it's the only way we can learn about what they do and how that might benefit us. Jeb Dasteel from Oracle was clear on the call that this program will evolve over the next couple of quarters, so the opportunity to engage Oracle about user group issues is here. Right now.



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