[osol-mktg] Some ideas on how the marketing project could get help
Claire Giordano
claire.giordano at sun.com
Thu Sep 15 10:35:05 PDT 2005
Actually, I 2nd-day-fedex'ed a shirt in the mail to Tim yesterday (for
posting that great photo of himself wearing his new OpenSolaris swag -
via spreadshirt - on his blog!)
So, in the very near future, he will have his very own Enthusiast shirt!
:-)
Enjoy, Tim.
ClaireG
Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Tim,
> Send me your log in name so that I can add you to the marketing
> community page. I really like your ideas and I would love to get your
> help in implementing them.
>
> We don't have any fancy submission process on the site right now. In
> order to accept someone's article or story, we'd have to use email for
> now. I will commit to offering tshirts for good content. Good can be
> determined by the community. Tim gets the first one (send me your size
> and address).
>
> I will update the copy on the page - I like your writing style.
> Sara
>
>
> Tim Foster wrote:
>
>>Hey Folks,
>>
>>As promised, I put together a list of places where the marketing project
>>might be able to use some help. It's plain html for now ( I guess the
>>opensolaris.org css will take care of the details if this is worth
>>publishing )
>>
>>Let me know if any of this is useful at all or if you have other ideas
>>as to where we need to focus our attention-grabbing : I'm all ears.
>>
>>The hope here, is that this will get people thinking about the areas on
>>where they could help to spread the word about OpenSolaris, or find ways
>>in which they can contribute to the marketing effort in general.
>>
>>At some stage, it'd be nice to get a project philosophy (I'd say mission
>>statement, but I usually hate reading mission statements) - that is,
>>something that states why the marketing project exists, and what our
>>goals are...
>>
>>Anyway, hope this is of some use.
>>
>> cheers,
>> tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Call for help
>>
>> The OpenSolaris Marketing project needs your help - here's a few of
>> the ways that we can think of where you could help out the project. Of
>> course, this is far from being an exhaustive list, but we're open to
>> suggestions. The goal here, is to get as many people clued-in on
>> OpenSolaris as possible - spread the word !
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Use It
>>
>> Pretty obviously, the /best/ thing you can do to help market
>> OpenSolaris, is to use it. Even if you're not a kernel hacker,
>> being able to give feedback to the folks working on the code
>> about new features or bugs will absolutely help our marketing
>> efforts. Check out some of the OpenSolaris distributions
>> <anyone%20have%20a%20link%20to%20a%20list%20of%20OpenSolaris%20distros%20for%20this%20?>,
>> and perhaps dive in and look at the source code
>> <http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/> if you're feeling up to
>> it! We want to make it easier for other folks to start using
>> OpenSolaris, so your experience in using the OS would definitely
>> help. Plus of course, by using the OS you'll learn a lot more
>> about OpenSolaris, which has to be a good thing |:-)|
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Demo it
>>
>> So you can use an OpenSolaris-based distribution as your
>> day-to-day desktop (right?), but do you know how to show off the
>> things people can't find in any other operating system ? We'd
>> love to collect together a group of scripts that you could use
>> to demo the features of the OS : if you've got time to write
>> scripts that promote the joys of DTrace, or Containers, or SMF,
>> or any of the other cool stuff in OpenSolaris, then let us know
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org> ! Oh, and if you are
>> demoing the OS, make sure to get your audience to bring along
>> blank CDs (and have a few spare yourself) so you can burn copies
>> of your favourite OpenSolaris distro to pass around.
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Tell your friends
>>
>> You're smart, and you know smart people : tell them a bit about
>> OpenSolaris. Ask yourself why you're interested in OpenSolaris,
>> and why it's cool, and then pass on the message. We're going to
>> try to come up with a list of things you might want to talk
>> about, and hopefully some shorter elevator pitches, so if you
>> can talk OpenSolaris till it's coming out of your ears, then
>> we'd love your help in putting these together. Send us mail
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org>.
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Tell the press
>>
>> It's been said that there's no such thing as bad publicity : we
>> want to keep the press aware of new stuff that's arriving in
>> OpenSolaris, so if you see things that you think might be of
>> interest to other people, then you should tell them about it -
>> share some of your enthusiasm. /"The press"/ could be anyone
>> from Slashdot to the New York Times, to Usenet - talk to those
>> guys, talk on IRC : we want to /tell the world/ !
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Blog
>>
>> You may have noticed, we're pretty fond of blogs here at
>> opensolaris.org <http://www.opensolaris.org>. If you're writing
>> blog posts about OpenSolaris, then get yourself added to our
>> list of blogs <http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/>. If you're not
>> writing blog posts about OpenSolaris, then we want to know why -
>> drop a mail to opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org> and tell us !
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Write Articles
>>
>> So, now that you're running an OpenSolaris-based distribution,
>> and are blogging about it, demoing it's features to your
>> friends, mailing the press and generally making a lot of noise
>> about it, maybe you want to help newbies out ? While blogs are
>> an excellent way to get the message across, writing articles
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/articles/> about OpenSolaris
>> could be a more approachable way to bootstrap new users or
>> developers. Perhaps you've already blogged about some of this
>> stuff ? Well, the bets are, it won't take much to transform your
>> well-crafted blog post into an article we can put up on
>> opensolaris.org <http://www.opensolaris.org> so that we can help
>> get your message out ! Just drop us a mail.
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org>
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Swag
>>
>> You've run, talked, blogged, written and demoed OpenSolaris, but
>> did you know you can also wear it ? We've got online stores at
>> genunix.spreadshirt.net <http://genunix.spreadshirt.net>(Europe)
>> or genunix.spreadshirt.com
>> <http://genunix.spreadshirt.com>(U.S.) where you can buy all
>> sorts of swag, so you can wear your loyalty on your sleeve, erm,
>> chest - wherever.
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Help the user-groups
>>
>> Evangelising OpenSolaris really means getting out to the users
>> and developers : writing blogs and articles, and talking to
>> people about OpenSolaris is great, but perhaps you've got some
>> well-ordered thoughts or presentations that the some of the
>> user-groups
>> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/> would
>> find helpful ? If you've given a talk at any user-group meetings
>> or conferences, then maybe you have /mp3s/ or /slides/ of your
>> talk that could inspire others ? Likewise posters, papers or
>> ideas for talks... Let us know
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org> and we'll try to pass
>> them on !
>>
>> *
>>
>>
>> Other stuff
>>
>> There's loads of ways to help market the project : these ones
>> have been relatively sane so far, but there's nothing stopping
>> you skateboarding down steps on an E450 running OpenSolaris, or
>> tattooing the logo to your head. If you do these things (ask
>> your Mom first, okay), please tell us about it
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org> and we'll see if we
>> can send you some *swag* as a thank-you, and if you have any
>> other ideas, just drop us an email !
>> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org>
>>
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