[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] top-right jumble and other concerns

[Sara Dornsife]

Thanks Clayton

Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> Dan Price wrote:
>
>> On Tue 20 Dec 2005 at 11:25AM, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dan -
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting a newsletter to replace the monthly newsletter being
>>> sent out now?  Or changes/additions to the current monthly newsletter?
>>
>>
>>
>> I think the pteam can decide that; is the pteam newsletter satisfying
>> the need expressed by marketing here?  Is it designed to?  After some
>> searching I see that it is being posted to the pteam alias, but (I may
>> be mistaken) no place else.  Who of the influencers marketing mentioned
>> reads the pteam alias?  As a metric, November's newsletter had 41 views
>> on the website as of this evening.  The newsletter also comes out badly
>> mangled by the jive forums:
>>
>>     http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4150&tstart=0
>>
>> I'll add to what Laura said that we need to write something exciting--
>> not provide status lists.  Think Zagat, lkml.org, slashdot,
>> boingboing.net, flavorpill.net.  Don't just tell what happened (or
>> will)-- tell people why it matters.  On months with high activity, I'd
>> expect a good newsletter to wind up on osnews.com and other sites.
>
>
> I think some of us would love to see the p-team newsletter grow in 
> scope and depth to reflect the entire program (engineering, community, 
> marketing, whatever). In other words, a top level report packed with 
> data that touches every aspect of the OpenSolaris program just deeply 
> enough to engage people but not overload or distract them. We'd all 
> contribute to that newsletter and pool/share our data so we can 
> leverage each other's efforts, and then we can (if we need to) produce 
> derivative reports from it for our specific audiences. We have to 
> decide what we want to track and contribute to this pool though, so we 
> can all benefit. What we have now is several disparate reports (some 
> internal, some external) that are not necessarily planned in context 
> with each other and it's confusing. I think Linda is doing a good job 
> getting the p-team newsletter off the ground, but we all have to feed 
> her the right bits to put it together.
>
> Jim
> -- 
> Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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