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

[Laura Ramsey]

The copy--Good--why aren't we linking to Polaris and Brand Z as 
interesting communities? They are both attractive (and there will be a 
contribution of code to the polaris community from Sun Labs in the 
coming few days).

Also, let's add a link to the announcements page. That is a running 
history of the project that is really very compelling.

Derek mentioned that he would have the new page layout staged for 
review. Sounded like it will be limited to website-discuss for 
distribution-- I'd like to have that specifically cc"d to the marketing 
alias. There may be some copy changes we'd like to suggest, as well as 
fixing some duplicate copy in other places. (if that's alright)

LKR


Sara Dornsife wrote:

> 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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