[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Anniversary Webcast -> Net Talk -> Take 10

[Sara Dornsife]

> Rich is absolutely right.  But I think there is a middle ground.  I 
> think the Net Talk should involve both Tom and Jim.  Tom is an excellent 
> voice for OpenSolaris, but frankly he's not prominent in the community, 
> he doesn't have a blog and hasn't sent a single piece of mail on the 
> OpenSolaris lists that I can find.
> Jim is charismatic, enthusiastic, and serves as "the voice of the 
> people" far better than anyone else.  Not only that, but as "OpenSolaris 
> Community Manager", it really is his place.

Let me preface by saying, I don't want to put any pressure on Jim. I 
like the idea though of having them do this together. Sun gave us all 
this code and infrastructure a year ago and that is something that Sun 
would like to celebrate too, that's where Tom comes in. I think Jim and 
Tom, as you say, are a good compromise.

> 
> Putting two power-houses together like Tom and Jim would best fulfill 
> the task and provide an interesting and compelling piece.

It's worth putting on the table.

> 
> As an aside, in the future it would be kool to have an interview 
> featuring the entire Tonic team.  I think a lot of people would be 
> interested to peak behind the curtain a bit, especially with regards to 
> people who aren't so visible, such as Stephen Harpster and Karyn 
> Ritter.  I've had the fortunate privilege to meet most everyone but not 
> many have or ever will.
> <http://blogs.sun.com/harpster>

I totally agree Ben. The Tonic team are like the little hampsters behind 
the scene keeping the engines running. (I mean that in the nicest 
possibilest way). While we're at the Take 10s, we could do a few of 
those on the ITeam, once again volunteering people that haven't offered 
yet :). We could do a Take 10 on the opensolaris.org infrastructure with 
Derek. The builds with Stepehn Lau. That kind of thing. If we did one 
with Jim on his own, he could talk about building a community.

> benr.
> 
> PS: At times like this I miss Claire.  She was really great with 
> interviews and such.
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