[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] Stats from 06/14/06

[Sara Dornsife]

The efforts on the 14th, which I thought were really good, were from and 
about the community. There was a distinct (but not entire) separation 
from Sun. The community was opened on June 14th and, as Jim stated, we 
celebrated as a community. The press activities out of Sun will reflect 
directly on Solaris 10, which in my mind it should. This community isn't 
only about Solaris.

That said, I am more concerned with the fact that you thought you were 
wasting your time Dan. For that I apologize. I think the site looks 
great. The change was much needed and is much appreciated. Getting the 
IRC framed in thing done is awesome.

There were a lot more blogs than I thought we'd get. And we had our 
first Contributor Awards, although it needs work and specifications to 
run more smoothly :). And most importantly, the community really came 
together to participate in this celebration. We have 3 people in 
OpenSolaris marketing and had up to 20 people on the anniversary calls. 
That's fantastic as far as I am concerned.

Let's take this opportunity to redo the web site. We put up the 1 
graphic for the anniversary, but it is coming down soon and we need 
something new to put in it's place. We covered a lot of ground in our 
discussions for what should there. That was definitely not a waste of time.
Sara


Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Dan Price wrote:
> 
>> I am less likely to devote time and effort to events such as this in the
>> future in the absence of clearer goals, plans to meet those goals, and
>> measurement of the impact of what we've done.
>>  
>>
> 
> There is plenty more that could have been done, without a doubt, but... 
> I believed the point of this was to show our stability, growth, and our 
> continued success, which we did.  Of all the stories and posts 
> throughout the day none were negative that I saw and even forum/comments 
> throughout the day were positive.
> 
> If you want a splash you've got to give something that will captivate 
> users, especially on a hot Wed.  Making a bigger deal about the Nexenta 
> and Ubuntu releases would have been the ticket, but we didn't coordinate 
> around those vehicles as well as we could have.
> 
> I consider the day as a success, despite anything else.  I admit feeling 
> around noon that day that things were pretty slow and boring, but even 
> so, it could have been an oppertunity for press outlets to rip us up and 
> they didn't.
> 
> benr.
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