[osol-mktg] opensolaris.org home page anniversary content

[Sara Dornsife]

OK, this is it. Thanks for your help.
Patrick. We will need ballpark numbers by Friday. Is that OK?
Sara


Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Agreed, agreed, agreed.
> 
> Unless there are any objections, I will submit the following to the 
> website-discuss alias tomorrow end of day.
> 
> 
> Most one year olds can only walk -we're up and running:
> 
> 14,000 + members [link to registration page]
> 
> 40 Different communities, [link to communities page] including
>     Immigrants [link to immigrants community]
>     Systems Administrators [link to sys admin community]
>     Laptop    [links to laptop community]
>     DTrace [links to DTrace community]
>     ZFS [links to ZFS community]
>     Zones [links to Zones community]
> 
> 27 different projects, [links to projects page]
> 
> 29 different user groups [links to user group page]
> 
> 30,000 downloads [links to download page]
> 
> 5 distributions [links to distro page]
> 
> 
> This will run from June 14 - June 28th.
> Sara
> 
> 
> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>> Patrick Finch wrote On 06/05/06 02:20,:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My thought is that the opportunity is to attract new members.  If all 
>>> our other anniversary activities are successful, we should expect a 
>>> big spike in first time or infrequent visitors to the site, and these 
>>> are the folks we would like to look around.
>>>
>>> So, this doesn't need to be too different from the existing site,
>>>
>>> For this reason, I like this:
>>>
>>>  >> - Most one year olds can only walk, we're off and running
>>> in combination with this
>>>
>>>  >> - A list of our anniversary stats with links to each one. For 
>>> example,
>>>  >> 26 user groups worldwide would link to the user group community, 
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if numbers are required here or not, they just serve to 
>>> highlight:
>>>
>>> eg.
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Most one year olds can only walk -we're up and running:
>>>
>>> 14,000 + members [link to registration page]
>>>
>>> 40 Different communities, [link to communities page] including
>>>     Immigrants [link to immigrants community]
>>>     Systems Administrators [link to sys admin community]
>>>     Laptop    [links to laptop community]
>>>     DTrace [links to DTrace community]
>>>     ZFS [links to ZFS community]
>>>     Zones [links to Zones community]
>>>     
>>> 27 different projects, [links to projects page]
>>>
>>> 29 different user groups [links to user group page]
>>>
>>> 30,000 downloads [links to download page]
>>>     
>>
>> I like this.
>>
>> Do we also want a line for:
>>
>> 5 distributions [link to distributions page]
>>
>>
>>> _________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>> I would especially highlight the Immigrants, Sys admins, Latop, 
>>> Dtrace, ZFS and Zones communities, as I think these are the ones that 
>>> will attract those with some interest.  Also, would you say "off and 
>>> running" in the US?  In, ahem, English English, I would have said "up 
>>> and running", but I'll defer as about 35% of site traffic is from the 
>>> US, 5% from the UK.
>>
>> I think 'up and running' works fine.  And I think I prefer it to 'off
>> and running'.  Still works for the 1-year-old analogy since the baby has
>> to get him/herself literally up in order to start walking.  And it works
>> for the website, the project, etc.
>>
>> Bonnie
>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Laura Ramsey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> For the anniversary we will update the graphics on the home page to 
>>>>> the #1. With it, we need some new content about the anniversary. I 
>>>>> threw this idea out yesterday in our weekly meeting and got some 
>>>>> suggestions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to get the content to Derek by Tues at the latest. 
>>>>> Here are the suggestions. Please also add anything new you may have 
>>>>> thought of and we'll look again on Monday to finalize.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Sara
>>>>>
>>>>> - "They" said it couldn't be done. Something very in-your-face to 
>>>>> the FUD throwers 
>>>> While I totally understand the sentiment, Let's take the high road 
>>>> and be inclusive...no need to be bitter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - Something about how Eric Raymond said that "Linux would crush 
>>>>> OpenSolaris" and, based on our numbers and successes, it certainly 
>>>>> hasn't crushed us. 
>>>> again, let's be nice! No need to pick a fight at our own birthday 
>>>> celebration
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - A list of our anniversary stats with links to each one. For 
>>>>> example, 26 user groups worldwide would link to the user group 
>>>>> community, etc. 
>>>> Okay--closer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - Most one year olds can only walk, we're off and running 
>>>> Love this one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - Kicking ass for 12 months 
>>>>
>>>>> - More than 14,000 people feel great (sideline from Sara: I missed 
>>>>> something here) 
>>>> Love this one.
>>>>
>>>>
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