[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Developers Conf

[Glynn Foster]

Heya,

> 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.

I completely agree with this. If you're going to go to the trouble of
flying a bunch of core developers in for the invite only 'FOO Camp'
style event, you might as well get the use out of their cheer leading
abilities for one or two days of general technical conference after
that.

I'm not entirely sure I agree about having an extra day for marketing
though - isn't the value having a whole heap of cool OpenSolaris
developers in town enough? Slotting in a few key thought about keynotes
for suitable high profile speakers into the technical conference seems
like a better approach - at least for the short term, until we grow the
community.


Glynn

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