From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM  Wed Feb  1 06:01:28 2006
From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:01:28 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] REMINDER OpenSolaris Expert Exchange]
Message-ID: <43E0BF38.1040605@sun.com>

Just a reminder that the Expert Exchange is happening this morning.
Sara
__________________

You can hear Jim Grisanzio, Rich Teer, Al Hopper, Dan Price, Liane Praza, and Sun legal representative Cliff Allen in an Expert Exchange (read: Live Q&A) on Wednesday, February 1, from 10-11:00 AM Pacific. 

Go to: www.sun.com/expertexchange <http://www.sun.com/expertexchange> to sign up.

______________ <snip from invitation email>

Have questions about OpenSolaris project participation, and 
licensing, and how you can contribute to and change code? Here's your 
chance to get them answered! 
 
Join this Sun Expert Exchange for a live Q&A chat on the fast-growing 
OpenSolaris community and ask your own questions on the OpenSolaris 
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), membership, 
and more: 
 
 * OpenSolaris participation and contribution 
 * Code sections covered under CDDL 
 * Code modification, redistribution, and commercial use 
 
As a special incentive, we're giving away FREE T-shirts to all 
attendees! Don't miss this chance for an OpenSolaris "Love at First 
Boot" shirt. 

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From sks at cvok.co.uk  Wed Feb  1 06:11:30 2006
From: sks at cvok.co.uk (Sean Sprague)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:11:30 +0000
Subject: [osol-mktg] REMINDER OpenSolaris Expert Exchange]
In-Reply-To: <43E0BF38.1040605@sun.com>
References: <43E0BF38.1040605@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43E0C192.1070205@cvok.co.uk>

Sara,

> Just a reminder that the Expert Exchange is happening this morning.

I thought it was interesting that the "official" reminder 
included:

-----
Don't miss this opportunity to receive direct access to a 
panel of Sun experts: Jim Grisanzio, Cliff Allen, Rich Teer, 
Al Hooper, Dan Price, and Liane Praza.
-----

I'm not sure that Al will appreciate this ;-)

Sean.


From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM  Wed Feb  1 06:24:33 2006
From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:24:33 -0600
Subject: [ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] REMINDER OpenSolaris Expert Exchange]
In-Reply-To: <43E0C192.1070205@cvok.co.uk>
References: <43E0BF38.1040605@sun.com> <43E0C192.1070205@cvok.co.uk>
Message-ID: <43E0C4A1.8050301@sun.com>

Damn. I mean darn. Sorry Al! I hadn't noticed the mis-spelling. I'll let 
them know and see if we can get it changed.
Sara


Sean Sprague wrote:

> Sara,
>
>> Just a reminder that the Expert Exchange is happening this morning.
>
>
> I thought it was interesting that the "official" reminder included:
>
> -----
> Don't miss this opportunity to receive direct access to a panel of Sun 
> experts: Jim Grisanzio, Cliff Allen, Rich Teer, Al Hooper, Dan Price, 
> and Liane Praza.
> -----
>
> I'm not sure that Al will appreciate this ;-)
>
> Sean.
> _______________________________________________
> ug-discuss mailing list
> ug-discuss at opensolaris.org




From Chandan at Sun.COM  Thu Feb  2 15:56:15 2006
From: Chandan at Sun.COM (Chandan B.N.)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:56:15 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Design of Joint Open Source T-Shirts
In-Reply-To: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com>
References: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com>
Message-ID: <1138924575.940.75.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:31 -0600, Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Take a look. Tell me what you think. Is anything missing?

Seeing open media commons, may be you can also use "Open Standards"
logos:

Liberty: 
http://www.projectliberty.org/

Oasis
http://www.oasis-open.org

JCP
http://jcp.org/

more:
http://standards.sfbay/organizations.html

> Most importantly, how many are you going to buy? Need orders up front. 
> $10ea.
> Sara
> 



From Terri.Molini at Sun.COM  Thu Feb  2 16:53:54 2006
From: Terri.Molini at Sun.COM (Terri Molini)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:53:54 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Design of Joint Open Source T-Shirts
In-Reply-To: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com>
References: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43E2A9A2.7020206@sun.com>

Very cool.

What sizes are you ordering?

-terri

Sara Dornsife wrote On 02/02/06 15:31,:

>T-shirt design attached. Two things to note:
>- Glassfish logo has been giving us problems (we don't know why)
>- Some stretching may have occured in order to make them work
>
>Take a look. Tell me what you think. Is anything missing?
>
>Most importantly, how many are you going to buy? Need orders up front. 
>$10ea.
>Sara
>  
>

-- 
"Sun: Extreme Performance, Compelling Prices"

Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Global Communications
408/404-4976 office/fax; x6-9968
408/406-9021 mobile
IM: tmolini

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From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Fri Feb  3 03:02:01 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:02:01 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] Updated Community Metrics
In-Reply-To: <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
References: <437C8116.80905@sun.com> <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43E33829.2030606@sun.com>

All,

An updated report is available here

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/

regards

Patrick



From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM  Fri Feb  3 05:05:29 2006
From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:05:29 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Design of Joint Open Source T-Shirts
In-Reply-To: <1138924575.940.75.camel@localhost>
References: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com> <1138924575.940.75.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <43E35519.6000703@sun.com>

Thanks, but I can't add any more logos to this one.

Chandan B.N. wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:31 -0600, Sara Dornsife wrote:
>  
>
>>Take a look. Tell me what you think. Is anything missing?
>>    
>>
>
>Seeing open media commons, may be you can also use "Open Standards"
>logos:
>
>Liberty: 
>http://www.projectliberty.org/
>
>Oasis
>http://www.oasis-open.org
>
>JCP
>http://jcp.org/
>
>more:
>http://standards.sfbay/organizations.html
>
>  
>
>>Most importantly, how many are you going to buy? Need orders up front. 
>>$10ea.
>>Sara
>>
>>    
>>
>
>  
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From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM  Fri Feb  3 05:15:36 2006
From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:15:36 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Design of Joint Open Source T-Shirts
In-Reply-To: <43E2A9A2.7020206@sun.com>
References: <43E29635.3060008@sun.com> <43E2A9A2.7020206@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43E35778.9020709@sun.com>

Probably just L and XL. I will need more orders and you can request 
other sizes.
Sara


Terri Molini wrote:

> Very cool.
>
> What sizes are you ordering?
>
> -terri
>
> Sara Dornsife wrote On 02/02/06 15:31,:
>
>>T-shirt design attached. Two things to note:
>>- Glassfish logo has been giving us problems (we don't know why)
>>- Some stretching may have occured in order to make them work
>>
>>Take a look. Tell me what you think. Is anything missing?
>>
>>Most importantly, how many are you going to buy? Need orders up front. 
>>$10ea.
>>Sara
>>  
>>
>
>-- 
>"Sun: Extreme Performance, Compelling Prices"
>
>Terri Molini
>Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>Global Communications
>408/404-4976 office/fax; x6-9968
>408/406-9021 mobile
>IM: tmolini
>  
>
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From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM  Fri Feb  3 10:19:43 2006
From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:19:43 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: [program-team] Updated Community Metrics
In-Reply-To: <43E33829.2030606@sun.com>
References: <437C8116.80905@sun.com> <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
	<43E33829.2030606@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43E39EBF.9020209@sun.com>

Patrick Finch wrote:
> All,
> 
> An updated report is available here
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/


Thanks, Patrick. In your next update, can you insert the word "code" 
into these two items below? "xx Community code contributions" ... We'll 
eventually have multiple types of non-code contributions so I don't want 
people to feel that the only way to contribute is to write code.

76 Community *code* contributions offered to OpenSolaris
34 Community *code* contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks)

Thanks,

Jim



From Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM  Mon Feb  6 06:45:14 2006
From: Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM (Eric Boutilier)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:45:14 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] Dave Sifry on "Blogosphere Growth"
Message-ID: <43E760FA.4050108@Sun.COM>

Thought this was worth pointing out.   --Eric

Dave Sifry of Technorati:

 > " ... the blogosphere continues to grow at a quickening
 > pace. Technorati currently tracks 27.2 Million weblogs,
 > and the blogosphere we track continues to double about
 > every 5.5 months, as the chart below show ..."

Full post:

State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000419.html


From Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM  Thu Feb  9 08:01:57 2006
From: Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM (Eric Boutilier)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:01:57 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] Cluetrain marketing, Linux Weekly News
Message-ID: <43EB6775.9040106@Sun.COM>

Here's something I did yesterday with surprising results. This has to do 
with exploring "cluetrain" ways of raising awareness -- in this case the 
topics is the OpenSolaris Xen project.

In reaction to an article posted to Linux Weekly News yesterday morning, 
I quickly whipped up a Xen "link roll" blog post (by mostly using a 
google search bound to blogs.sun.com and rapid-fire tagging of the 
results in del.icio.us via FireFox tab-browsing), and then linked to it 
by posting a comment here:

    http://lwn.net/Articles/171062/

It resulted in a surprisingly huge spike in both incoming traffic to 
that blog post and off-site clicks to the sites it pointed to[1]. In 
specific, 106 of the 411 non-direct incoming "visitors" to my blog 
yesterday came by way of that comment, easily topping 
opensolaris.org/os/blogs, which is normally the highest (by far) 
referrer of incoming non-direct "visitors". The latter came in at about 
80 yesterday.

Of course there are probably several factors contributing to this, but I 
think its safe to say that compared to similar things I've done 
(pointing people to opensolaris.org pages and opensolaris/Sun bloggers) 
in other places over the last several months -- such as OSNews, a bunch 
of industry analysts' and reporters' blogs/articles, and a bunch of 
other UNIX/Linux bloggers' posts -- commenting on on lwn.net gets a lot 
of attention.

Eric

[1] My blog stats come from MyBlogLog.com "Pro", a handy, cheap, 
$25/year service.


From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Wed Feb 15 05:31:19 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:31:19 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris at FOSDEM
Message-ID: <43F32D27.5020501@sun.com>

All,

OpenSolaris will be at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of the 
25-26th February.

The event site is here, http://www.fosdem.org/2006 and is free to 
attend, although donations are welcome for what is described as "the 
best Free and Open Source Software Event in Europe".   Sun is a FOSDEM 
sponsor.

It all takes place at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Campus du 
Solbosch in Brussels, and promises to be very interesting.

There will be a general session discussing GPL v3, (it's a shame 
Jonathan Schwartz won't be there*), and as well as some very notable 
speakers such as Richard Stallman and Jeff Waugh, there is considerable 
interest in OpenSolaris at the event.  Jonathan Haslam will be giving an 
overview of DTrace, on Saturday, 25th February, in the Jansson Room, 
2-3pm, and a tutorial on Sunday, 26th February, at 4pm in Room H2215 .  
There is also a talk by Jay Hobson planned on "DTrace on the X.org 
Server", within the X.org track, further details to be confirmed.

If you are planning to attend, please do get in touch. I'll be there :)

regards

Patrick


* see 
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=hp_and_sun_partnering_around


From benr at cuddletech.com  Wed Feb 15 11:51:36 2006
From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:51:36 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF
Message-ID: <43F38648.2090009@cuddletech.com>

LinuxWorld Boston is coming up on April 3rd.  Are we expecting to have a 
presence?

Also, I'm curious about what exposure we might have gotten this week at 
OSBC in SF.  I completely forgot about it happening.


benr.


From Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM  Wed Feb 15 12:30:41 2006
From: Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM (Sara Dornsife)
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:30:41 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF
In-Reply-To: <43F38648.2090009@cuddletech.com>
References: <43F38648.2090009@cuddletech.com>
Message-ID: <43F38F71.8040006@sun.com>

Ben Rockwood wrote:

> LinuxWorld Boston is coming up on April 3rd.  Are we expecting to have 
> a presence? 

Sun has a pod in the AMD booth at LinuxWorld Boston. There is no Sun 
booth at that event. We have proposed a joint promotion with AMD (and by 
we, I mean OpenSolaris specifically). IDG hasn't approved it yet - it 
involves their approval, so we don't know yet if it is going to happen. 
If it does, make sure you look for easter eggs and take the quiz, and 
you could win one of 3 Acer Ferrari laptops at the show. :)

>
>
> Also, I'm curious about what exposure we might have gotten this week 
> at OSBC in SF.  I completely forgot about it happening. 

It's still going on. Yesterday, Jonathan keynoted. Today there are 
sessions going on. Jim is up there. Maybe he can give us recap when he 
returns?

>
>
>
> benr.
> _______________________________________________
> opensolaris-mktg mailing list
> opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org




From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Thu Feb 16 00:56:47 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:56:47 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris at SIGCSE 2006
Message-ID: <43F43E4F.7080106@sun.com>

All,

SIGCSE is the Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education.  
SIGCSE 2006 will be held from the 2nd-4th March at the Americas Hilton 
Hotel, Houston, Texas.  OpenSolaris will have a considerable presence at 
SIGCSE. 

Sun is a platinum sponsor of the event, and we will have plenty going 
on.  OpenSolaris and NetBeans will be sharing booths on the showroom 
floor (booths P&Q), and we will be promoting an instructor guide for 
incorporating OpenSolaris into  a computer science curriculum, 
"Introduction to Operating Systems:  A Hands-On Approach Using the 
OpenSolaris Project".
 
On Thursday we will hold a panel session, "Solaris and the open source 
revolution: opening curriculum."  The session will take place at 4pm in 
room 335B.  Currently the panel will feature Sean Smith, Assistant 
Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth University, Sun  engineers 
Russ Blaine and Eric Lowe, and Michelle Olson, author of the OpenSolaris 
instructor guide.

On Friday at 8pm there will be a reception for OpenSolaris, featuring 
presentations and demonstrations of the technology, a light buffet and a 
prize draw.  Invitations for the reception will be available at the Sun 
booth - so if you'd like to attend, please see us at the booth.

We can still add people to the panel - please get in touch if you'd be 
interested, and if you are at the event, please come and say hello!

regards

Patrick and Teresa
 



From Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM  Thu Feb 16 07:18:26 2006
From: Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM (alessioc)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:18:26 PST
Subject: [osol-mktg] ADVICE: Do NOT buy in the Opensolaris store... :(
Message-ID: <17034558.1140103137034.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

On December 2005 I bought an opensolaris t-shirt ("love at first boot") in the Opensolaris Store (http://store.opensolarisswag.com/) advertised in this forum.

Well, it has been billed ($10.90) on my credit card on december 17th 2005, but I never received it! (it was 2 months ago...)

Just a random error in the order processing? 
Well, I contacted the shop (ericnelsen2001 at yahoo.com) but I never got an answer to my emails... :(

So my advice to other users is: do not buy in this shop, if you don't want to lose your money!
This message posted from opensolaris.org


From Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM  Thu Feb 16 10:54:26 2006
From: Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM (alessioc)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:54:26 PST
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: ADVICE: Do NOT buy in the Opensolaris store... :(
In-Reply-To: <17034558.1140103137034.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <8641263.1140116116714.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

Well, they contacted me right now... that's incredible how much powerful is this forum! ;)

It seems the parcel was lost and will be sent again... let's see if this time i'll get it
This message posted from opensolaris.org


From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM  Thu Feb 16 11:14:32 2006
From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:14:32 -0500
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: ADVICE: Do NOT buy in the Opensolaris store... :(
In-Reply-To: <8641263.1140116116714.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
References: <8641263.1140116116714.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <43F4CF18.3070008@sun.com>


Glad that worked out!  And thanks for letting us know that you got a 
response!
LKR


alessioc wrote:

>Well, they contacted me right now... that's incredible how much powerful is this forum! ;)
>
>It seems the parcel was lost and will be sent again... let's see if this time i'll get it
>This message posted from opensolaris.org
>_______________________________________________
>opensolaris-mktg mailing list
>opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org
>  
>




From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Fri Feb 17 05:04:02 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:04:02 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] Updated Community Metrics
In-Reply-To: <43E33829.2030606@sun.com>
References: <437C8116.80905@sun.com> <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
	<43E33829.2030606@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43F5C9C2.8000103@sun.com>

All,

An updated report is here:


http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/


regards


Patrick



From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM  Fri Feb 17 11:12:48 2006
From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:12:48 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF
In-Reply-To: <43F38F71.8040006@sun.com>
References: <43F38648.2090009@cuddletech.com> <43F38F71.8040006@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43F62030.6030405@sun.com>

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Ben Rockwood wrote:

>> Also, I'm curious about what exposure we might have gotten this week 
>> at OSBC in SF.  I completely forgot about it happening. 
> 
> 
> It's still going on. Yesterday, Jonathan keynoted. Today there are 
> sessions going on. Jim is up there. Maybe he can give us recap when he 
> returns?

It was a pretty good show, but nothing surprising. I've been to three 
OSBCs. It was a bit smaller than last year, it seemed, but others 
disagreed. Schwartz announced GPL for OpenSPARC in his keynote, which 
seemed pretty popular and sparked some hallway conversations. Sun's Tim 
Bray and Bill Vass did press/analyst interviews and participated on some 
panels.

I didn't run any meetings or anything; I was just there to lurk the 
halls and talk to people -- an activity I highly recommend, by the way, 
even if you aren't doing any sessions or BOFs. People do notice.

I found a moderate level of interest in OpenSolaris, as well as the 
normal brain dead sarcasm about Sun in open source. OpenSolaris came up 
multiple times in multiple sessions, too. Clearly, more people knew 
about us this year. But it was a business show, not a developer 
conference. Lots of execs in suits pitching products, and more lawyers 
than I could count.

Oh, the wireless absolutely sucked but the food was great. I took some 
pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/sets/72057594065194745/

Jim
--
Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/


From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM  Fri Feb 17 11:50:55 2006
From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:50:55 -0500
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: [program-team] Updated Community Metrics
In-Reply-To: <43F5C9C2.8000103@sun.com>
References: <437C8116.80905@sun.com> <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
	<43E33829.2030606@sun.com> <43F5C9C2.8000103@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43F6291F.90000@sun.com>


Hi Patrick: 

5,900 postings to discussion groups--can you check that. if it's during 
the month, it's fabulous. If it's a new way of representing (previous 
months were cumulative it looks like...) let us know.

LKR

Patrick Finch wrote:

> All,
>
> An updated report is here:
>
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/
>
>
> regards
>
>
> Patrick
>
> _______________________________________________
> program-team mailing list
> program-team at opensolaris.org
> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/program-team





From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM  Fri Feb 17 13:08:23 2006
From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:08:23 -0500
Subject: [osol-mktg] LinuxWorld Boston and OSBC SF
In-Reply-To: <43F62030.6030405@sun.com>
References: <43F38648.2090009@cuddletech.com> <43F38F71.8040006@sun.com>
	<43F62030.6030405@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43F63B47.6080202@sun.com>

Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>
>> Ben Rockwood wrote:
>
>
>>> Also, I'm curious about what exposure we might have gotten this week 
>>> at OSBC in SF.  I completely forgot about it happening. 
>>
>>
>>
>> It's still going on. Yesterday, Jonathan keynoted. Today there are 
>> sessions going on. Jim is up there. Maybe he can give us recap when 
>> he returns?
>
>
> It was a pretty good show, but nothing surprising. I've been to three 
> OSBCs. It was a bit smaller than last year, it seemed, but others 
> disagreed. Schwartz announced GPL for OpenSPARC in his keynote, which 
> seemed pretty popular and sparked some hallway conversations. Sun's 
> Tim Bray and Bill Vass did press/analyst interviews and participated 
> on some panels.
>
> I didn't run any meetings or anything; I was just there to lurk the 
> halls and talk to people -- an activity I highly recommend, by the 
> way, even if you aren't doing any sessions or BOFs. People do notice.
>
> I found a moderate level of interest in OpenSolaris, as well as the 
> normal brain dead sarcasm about Sun in open source. OpenSolaris came 
> up multiple times in multiple sessions, too. Clearly, more people knew 
> about us this year. But it was a business show, not a developer 
> conference. Lots of execs in suits pitching products, and more lawyers 
> than I could count.
>
> Oh, the wireless absolutely sucked but the food was great. I took some 
> pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/sets/72057594065194745/ 


Jim--you said something really profound yesterday when we talked about 
this--you said--Sun was there, beating it's chest as always.
That's a really interesting perception --and so true of our natural 
corporate behavior. 

>
>
> Jim
> -- 
> Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
> _______________________________________________
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From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Mon Feb 20 05:20:25 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:20:25 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: [program-team] Updated Community Metrics
In-Reply-To: <43F6291F.90000@sun.com>
References: <437C8116.80905@sun.com> <43D0EEAA.5040800@sun.com>
	<43E33829.2030606@sun.com> <43F5C9C2.8000103@sun.com>
	<43F6291F.90000@sun.com>
Message-ID: <43F9C219.1040606@sun.com>

Laura,

Thanks for catching this, you're right, the figure should be 21,000.  
Updated on the site.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

regards

Patrick

Laura Ramsey wrote:

>
> Hi Patrick:
> 5,900 postings to discussion groups--can you check that. if it's 
> during the month, it's fabulous. If it's a new way of representing 
> (previous months were cumulative it looks like...) let us know.
>
> LKR
>
> Patrick Finch wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> An updated report is here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/latest/
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> program-team mailing list
>> program-team at opensolaris.org
>> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/program-team
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> program-team mailing list
> program-team at opensolaris.org
> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/program-team




From Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM  Wed Feb 22 07:23:25 2006
From: Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM (Patrick Finch)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:23:25 +0100
Subject: [osol-mktg] Fwd: OpenSolaris @ CeBIT2006
Message-ID: <43FC81ED.5070207@sun.com>

Hi,

In case anyone missed this, there will be an OpenSolaris community day 
at CeBIT on the 12th March.  The details are below.

A couple of tips:

The registration page is 
http://de.sun.com/company/events/2006/cebit/community/index.html, and is 
in German.  Click Anmeldung to register.
Accommodation is thin on the ground at CeBIT.   If you don't have 
accommodation, you should look into travelling in and out on the same day.
Hope to see some of you there.

regards

Patrick



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[ug-gosug] OpenSolaris @ CeBIT2006
Date: 	Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:09:12 +0100
From: 	Detlef Drewanz <Detlef.Drewanz at Sun.COM>
To: 	ug-gosug at opensolaris.org, opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
References: 	<43D151EC.6080402 at sun.com>



Hi,
the first German OpenSolaris User Group Meeting will be 
hosted by Sun Microsystems at the CeBIT 2006. Come, see, 
meet the specialists and have some discussion with other 
OpenSolaris enthusiasts.

When:
    	Sunday, March 12th, 2006, 14:00 - 20:00
What:
	14:00 Intro to OpenSolaris
	14:30 Solaris Containers for Linux Applications
	15:30 Break/Pause/Diskussion
	16:00 First Experiences with ZFS in Solaris 10
	17:00 ZFS - Intro and technical details
	18:00 	Get Together / Networking / Snacks / Drinks

Where:
     Germany, CeBIT Hannover, Sun booth Hall 1/A90+A91

Please register if you plan to attend because we have 
limited space there.

Registration at:
http://de.sun.com/company/events/2006/cebit/community/index.html

Please see also:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/gosug/

regards
Detlef
_______________________________________________
ug-gosug mailing list
ug-gosug at opensolaris.org



From Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM  Sat Feb 25 08:06:03 2006
From: Alessio.Cervellin at Sun-cs-italy.COM (alessioc)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:06:03 PST
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: ADVICE: Do buy in the Opensolaris store
In-Reply-To: <8641263.1140116116714.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <5759777.1140883593846.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

I got the parcel today, and with an added gift :)

Quality item too... now it seems i should recommend to buy in this shop ;)
This message posted from opensolaris.org


From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM  Mon Feb 27 05:14:10 2006
From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:14:10 -0500
Subject: [osol-mktg] Inviting Key ISVs to join OpenSolaris.org
Message-ID: <4402FB22.6070702@sun.com>


Last week Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio and I met on the possibility of 
"outreach" to key ISVs to join opensolaris.org projects (or event start 
one of their own)

There are at least a handful of ISVs who have strong commitment to the 
Solaris platform, and could add value to the next version of Solaris.  
I'd like to get a list going of ISVs we think would be good additions to 
the OpenSolaris genetic pool...

Any ISVs come immediately to mind?

Cisco
HP
Oracle (maybe)


How about more drivers? Do we have solid representation here:

Mentor Graphics
SGI
Adobe

How about platforms?

FreeScale (Power PC)
AMD (opteron 64)
Toshiba



LKR



From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM  Mon Feb 27 06:49:34 2006
From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:49:34 -0500
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Extending the reach of blogs posts
In-Reply-To: <44030F12.6000307@speakeasy.net>
References: <44030F12.6000307@speakeasy.net>
Message-ID: <4403117E.1030909@sun.com>


Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias...


Eric:
should we "federate friends" so we can view eachother's other tags as 
well? That might be another cool way to network content. Many people 
have different user names on digg than on opensolaris...so how could we 
publish that membership list?

LKR


Eric Boutilier wrote:

> I had an idea over the weekend that the "Digg" concept can be a good 
> way to help extend the reach of posts about OpenSolaris being made by 
> OpenSolaris enthusiasts. With that in mind, here are submissions I 
> made over the weekend:
>
> http://digg.com/users/opensolarisLnks/submitted
>
> Note also that the the nickname I'm using is "opensolarisLnks" to 
> indicate the singular focus of the articles submitted via this account.
>
> Why digg.com? Well, tech people are always looking for better ways to 
> filter technology news, and it seems to me the wide-open 
> thumbs-up/down concept is a good one. The Wisdom of Crowds[1] kinda 
> thing.
>
> For further reading, here's a list of "popular" write-ups about Digg 
> via Del.icio.us:
>
> http://del.icio.us/popular/digg
>
> Of course it has it's detractors too, for example, Russell Beattie, 
> thinks the voting system is flawed. See:
>
> http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008772.html
>
> Eric
>
> [1]:http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/
> _______________________________________________
> opensolaris-discuss mailing list
> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org





From stevel at sun.com  Mon Feb 27 07:02:35 2006
From: stevel at sun.com (Stephen Lau)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:02:35 -0800
Subject: [osol-mktg] Inviting Key ISVs to join OpenSolaris.org
In-Reply-To: <4402FB22.6070702@sun.com>
References: <4402FB22.6070702@sun.com>
Message-ID: <4403148B.7000602@sun.com>

Laura Ramsey wrote:
> Adobe

*cough* ACROBAT! *cough*

-- 
stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net
opensolaris // solaris kernel development


From white.wristband at gmail.com  Mon Feb 27 07:55:22 2006
From: white.wristband at gmail.com (Jeremy Teo)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:55:22 PST
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Inviting Key ISVs to join OpenSolaris.org
In-Reply-To: <4402FB22.6070702@sun.com>
Message-ID: <28814888.1141055752644.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

Hello,

an idea that comes to mind immediately is Acer. It would be very nice if they could somehow provide additional hardware documentation so that better support can be implemented for their Ferrari series of laptops. 

:)

Regards, 
Jeremy.
This message posted from opensolaris.org


From rich.teer at rite-group.com  Mon Feb 27 08:30:31 2006
From: rich.teer at rite-group.com (Rich Teer)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:30:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Inviting Key ISVs to join OpenSolaris.org
In-Reply-To: <28814888.1141055752644.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
References: <28814888.1141055752644.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.64.0602270829540.5110@marrakesh>

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jeremy Teo wrote:

> an idea that comes to mind immediately is Acer. It would be very nice
> if they could somehow provide additional hardware documentation so that
> better support can be implemented for their Ferrari series of laptops.

+1, although Acer is an IHV, not an ISV...

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich


From Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM  Tue Feb 28 10:12:23 2006
From: Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM (Eric Boutilier)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:12:23 -0600
Subject: [osol-mktg] Re: Extending the reach of blogs posts
In-Reply-To: <4403117E.1030909@sun.com>
References: <44030F12.6000307@speakeasy.net> <4403117E.1030909@sun.com>
Message-ID: <44049287.1030606@Sun.COM>

Laura Ramsey wrote:

>Eric Boutilier wrote:
>  
>
>>I had an idea over the weekend that the "Digg" concept can be a good 
>>way to help extend the reach of posts about OpenSolaris being made by 
>>OpenSolaris enthusiasts. With that in mind, here are submissions I 
>>made over the weekend:
>>
>>http://digg.com/users/opensolarisLnks/submitted
>>
>>Note also that the the nickname I'm using is "opensolarisLnks" to 
>>indicate the singular focus of the articles submitted via this account.
>>
>>Why digg.com? Well, tech people are always looking for better ways to 
>>filter technology news, and it seems to me the wide-open 
>>thumbs-up/down concept is a good one. The Wisdom of Crowds[1] kinda 
>>thing.
>>
>>For further reading, here's a list of "popular" write-ups about Digg 
>>via Del.icio.us:
>>
>>http://del.icio.us/popular/digg
>>
>>Of course it has it's detractors too, for example, Russell Beattie, 
>>thinks the voting system is flawed. See:
>>
>>http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008772.html
>>
>>Eric
>>
>>[1]:http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/
>>
>>    
>>
>Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias...
>
>
>Eric:
>should we "federate friends" so we can view eachother's other tags as 
>well? That might be another cool way to network content. Many people 
>have different user names on digg than on opensolaris...so how could we 
>publish that membership list?
>
>LKR
>

Laura,

Correct me if I'm wrong: Sounds like you mean trying to have people to 
fill in a master user-ID table; maybe indexed by OpenSolaris ID, like this:

os.o ID(key), del.icio.us, digg.com, flickr, genunix ...
-------------------------------------------------------
ericb,       bootblog,     paco, eric_boutilier, ericb ....
johndoe,     solguy,       jdoe, johnny,         johnd
etc..

I think that's a _very_ cool idea.  The percentage of people willing to 
enter/update their data will determine success though.

As for logistics, people could go to their opensolaris.org profile and 
put in the data, then someone could fairly easily gather and compile it. 
Or here's a wild idea: Everyone could go open tabs (w/out logging in) to 
your main pages on social/tagging sites you have accounts on and tag 
them in del.icio.us using two specific tags. How about: osomember 
<sitedomain>. For example:

Tags: osomember flickr.com

Because only two tags are required, this only takes a few minutes 
(assuming one already has an account on del.icio.us, that is).

OK, I just went and did it for 6 of mine... (MAN, this stuff has huge 
potential!) So as of now, the following new index pages (with feeds) exist:

Master list:

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember
       Links to all home pages (on Flickr, Genunix, <whatever>) of 
participating people (only me so far)


----

Group, subset pages:

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember+flickr.com
       Links to participating peoples' Flickr pages (only me so far)

http://del.icio.us/tag/osomember+del.icio.us
       Links to participating peoples' Delicious pages (only me so far)

(etc...)

----

Individuals' pages:

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/osomember
      Links to my  pages (I've put in Flickr, Digg, Frappr, Delicious, 
Genunix, and OpenSolaris)

http://del.icio.us/bootblog/frappr.com
      A solitary link to my Frappr page

(etc...)

Eric