[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Developers Conf

[Simon Phipps]

Seems to me there are four audiences:

Audience 1 -  Core OpenSolaris developers
Audience 2 -  Technical folk who are building on Solaris - OEMs, ISVs, 
a few key corporates with deep code needs
Audience 3 -  Solaris deployers
Audience 4 -  Open Source meta-community members observing OpenSolaris

I suggest we co-locate separate events for these audiences.

*  A "Friends of Tonic" event for Audience 1, invite only, maybe a few 
from Audience 4. Maybe hold this over the preceding weekend, like "FOO 
Camp"? The objective of FOT would be to strengthen OpenSolaris core 
community relationships and provide a context to get code coded now & 
in the future. The agenda for this event would be devised by the 
attendees on-site from content they have brought with them.
*  A "Solaris Technical Conference" for Audience 2, 2 days maybe Mon & 
Tue, mainly tutorial format with open-mic plenaries. This event would 
have a program committee devising content, I suspect Audience 1 would 
provide many of the speakers. The objective would be to strengthen 
driver and app support for Solaris and in the process grow the 
OpenSolaris community.
*  A "Solaris Summit" for Audience 3, 1 day with keynotes or maybe part 
of a larger SunW event. The objective would be to provide a marketing 
venue for platforms based on OpenSolaris.

By holding separate events we can avoid content dilution; by 
co-locating we can reduce costs and create critical mass.

S.

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