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

[Sara Dornsife]

patrick finch wrote:
> 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
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> 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...
>   
This sort of thing could be done using the same process as the 
opensource shirts. I would personally prefer the other, but I am only 
one vote.
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> More seriously, I think the right question is
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>> If we want to highlight community instead of code
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> 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
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> Bonnie Corwin wrote:
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>> Laura Ramsey wrote On 05/03/06 08:51,:
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>>> Moazam Raja wrote:
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>>>> 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. 
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>>> 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!
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>> 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
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>>>> -Moazam
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>>>>
>>>> On May 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Stephen Hahn wrote:
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>>>>> 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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