[osol-mktg] Calling all bloggers!

[Sara Dornsife]

Ben,
Thanks! If you write it, produce it, record it, design it, let me know. 
I am here to help to promote whatever you are doing for and about 
OpenSolaris.
Sara


Ben Rockwood wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen, we need some help... a lot of help.  The news of 
> the last week has been, frankly, overwhelming.  Its clear everywhere 
> you look that people are having a very hard time digesting just how 
> much has changed.  As evangelists we really need to kick the blogging 
> and podcasts into high gear to help users and potential customers get 
> a grip on this new era.  I'm ramping up my blog and dropping some 
> projects off for a bit while I tried to help fill in the gaps.
>
> We really need an all out onslaught here.  A lot of people aren't even 
> reading the news about the changes, just seeing headlines or tidbits 
> of news and getting an incomplete picture.  FUD is flying in the midst 
> of all the goodness.  More than any time in Sun's history those of us 
> in the community of evangelists and zealots have more than ever to 
> fuel interest and possibly conversion.  Some people want to change, 
> others don't.  Thats entirely their choice and we respect that... but 
> there is a huge amount of the market (developer, enthusiast, hacker, 
> enterprise, integration... you name the market) that are open to a 
> better oppertunity and more value and are ready to take a fresh long 
> hard look at what Sun and the community are doing.
>
> After years of taking crap ("Sun's dead...", "Slow-aris...", "No 
> driver support...", we've heard it all) we've had a good year.  A 
> ground breaking year and now we've seen the sparks of interest grow 
> into explosions of intrest and now Sun's poured napalm on the grill.
> If ever in the history of Sun evangelism there was a time to seriously 
> turn up the volume, this is it.  We need to show that the community is 
> firmly behind the current moves and thriving.  The stage is set, the 
> peices are prepared for the big shin-dig on the 6th and I think we, as 
> the community working with Sun, need to hold up our end of the bargin 
> and really get the word out.
>
> Blog early, blog often.
>
> benr.
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