[osol-mktg] Mascot Contest

[Tim Foster]

Hey Jim,

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 21:19, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Tim Foster wrote:
> > I wonder could we start to write material like this
> > as well ? ( check out http://today.java.net/pub/q/articles )
> 
> Tim ... we have some articles like this on the site. We engaged O'Reilly 
> early in the pilot program to do some profiles and technical (magazine 
> style) articles for us. There are 8 articles at this link: 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/articles/

Right - I think that's the thing : there's a huge stylistic difference
going on. 

If you put blogs at the far left end of a scale, and columns from
(insert name of respected publication) at the other end of the scale,
then these articles would appear just slightly to the left of those.
They're almost *too* professional, and sort of come across as
press-releases. (though I did like the profiles, I have to say) 

Something more grass-rootsy (is that a word?) would be better though, I
think.

Of course, actually asking for those type of articles, is trying to
appoint a "Chief Fun Officer" who goes and schedules weekly "fun"
sessions : it'll just sound contrived, and people won't enjoy it.

> Perhaps as the community grows and diversifies, more interest will grow. We are 
> certainly open to the idea.

Yep, I agree. Getting a call out in the field (perhaps via mail to
opensolaris-discuss ?) to actually ask for content would be a good first
step. 

In the meantime, I'll continue working on this list of things that I
think would be useful to help folks help market OpenSolaris, and see
what you guys think.

	cheers,
			tim

-- 
Tim Foster - Tools Engineer, Software Globalisation, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Project Lead, Open Language Tools https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/
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