[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Developers Conf

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Simon Phipps wrote:

> 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.

A separate invite-only core developer summit is definitely good

I suspect there's enough overlap between Audience 2 and Audience 3 to just 
run those together as a 3-day event (or whatever's appropriate given the 
amount of content available) where people pick from among multiple tracks. 
Some topics are clearly of interest primarily to 2 or to 3, but a lot is 
of interest to both. After all, is a talk about, say, "ZFS implementation 
details" intended for 2 or for 3?

There is also audience 5 -- a more business-oriented track for CIO types 
and such. Maybe they just aren't invited though, in the interest of 
keeping it more technical, less extravaganza ;-)

later,
chris
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