[cab-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Anniversary activities

[patrick finch]

Quick trivia item: in 2001 the Spanish soccer team Deportivo Alavez
(relative minnows) made it to a European final.  To celebrate their day
in the sun, they produced a jersey for the game that had the names of
all their season ticket holders embroidered into it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/uefa_cup/1331213.stm

It was 13,000 names - almost exactly the same size as the OpenSolaris
community.  Sadly, I don't think that the same budget and techniques are
available to us, but it got me dreaming...




More seriously, I think the right question is

> If we want to highlight community instead of code

A year ago we highlighted community.  It was about the community, the
launch was entirely community-centric, and one of the great successes of
the past year has been the relentless growth of a highly constructive
community.

Now, highlighting C-O-D-E has the advantage of taking some of the
religious sting out "which OS" debates and highlighting the strength of
OpenSolaris (its leadership in innovative concepts) and the code theme
to the fan buttons and tshirts has been universally appreciated.

Against that, I don't think the message that OpenSolaris is exclusively
about code is what we want to say.  Litterally, if someone asked me what
OpenSolaris is all about, my answer would not be "code".  Fundamentally,
it's about community, a community built around a base of particularly
special code.

Fedora and Ubuntu, to name two Linux communities, understand this very
well.  And honestly, I'd say that OpenSolaris has walked this talk all
year long too, so why back away from it now?

Graphically, I think the code looks cool.  In terms of a message, I
think we should emphasise the growth, good governance and quality of the
community.


Patrick








Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> Laura Ramsey wrote On 05/03/06 08:51,:
> 
>>Moazam Raja wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Unfortunately, Stephen is right (not that he needed me to say so).
>>>
>>>You could very well run into a situation where someone thinks "Hey, I  
>>>submitted 12 bugs and my name wasn't picked but some guy who won a  
>>>lottery got picked?! Forget this, I'm gonna go over to Linux/BSD  
>>>development!".
>>>
>>>Not worth it.
>>>
>>>Someone else had mentioned using code from ZFS instead. Just make  
>>>sure it doesn't have so many sleep() calls like the current code does  
>>>though. 
>>
>>
>>I think there are 30+ projects that are doing great stuff--and we'd just 
>>be highlighting one?
>>
>>Treating the names as recognition award for outstanding participation 
>>and contribution could work, and it would encourage folks to get on next 
>>years' t-shirt!
> 
> 
> I really don't like the idea of names.  No matter how you do it - even
> awards - someone will feel left out, and the bad feelings just aren't
> worth it when we're trying to build the community - not separate it into
> factions.
> 
> Even with awards, there's no way to do it that won't annoy someone -
> most code contributions?  To what?  ON?  What about projects that are
> under development that haven't integrated into a consolidation yet?  We
> don't yet have a way to track those contributions.  How do you actually
> measure contributions like evangelizing?  The most time spent on
> conferences?  The most blog posts?  How do you decide a blog post is
> relevant?
> 
> -1 for names on a T-shirt - no matter how they are chosen.
> 
> If we want to highlight community instead of code, perhaps a list of
> communities and/or projects.  Or email aliases.  But not names.
> 
> Bonnie
> 
>>
>>>-Moazam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On May 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Whereas 20 lines of code won't make the other millions of inanimate
>>>> statements feel left out, picking 50 people, by however fair a  
>>>>method,
>>>> probably will make some of the other 12 000 wonder "why not me?".
>>>>
>>>> -1 on people's names instead of code, at least for a community-wide
>>>> event.
>>>>
>>>> - Stephen
>>>>
>>>>* If you wanted to have awards, then I could see using award winners'
>>>> names in the background field.
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
>>>>stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
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