[osol-mktg] 2nd Anniversary time

[Tim Foster]

Hi Sara & All,

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:00 -0500, Sara Dornsife wrote:
> It's that time of year. June 14th marks the 2nd anniversary of the 
> Opening Day of OpenSolaris. And it's time for us to start celebrating, 
> or planning our celebrating.

> What would you like to do this year?

> Personally, I'd really like to do the contributor awards again. Last 
> year wasn't very organized, so we should work out a way to do it right.

Yep, that sounds like a plan. As well as singling out individuals,
perhaps giving the community a way to show their appreciation for
particular projects/communities/distros would also be nice ?
I can think of several OpenSolaris projects that have made my use of
OpenSolaris much better over the past year: it'd be nice to have a way
to say "Thanks!" and give them more recognition for the work they're
doing.


I do think it'd be worthwhile to hold another front-page graphic
competition, just to see what other ideas are out there. The current
"open(2)" graphic was supposed to be up for 6 months originally I think,
though I'm not complaining!

I also like the idea of a picnic - although it'd have to be virtual for
me, I don't know if I'll be able to get across for it.

Finally, I'd quite like to hear some audio interviews with folks in the
OpenSolaris community - both famous and not (yet) famous, to see how
they think the project has gone over the last year, what challenges face
us and what we've learnt so far.  Something similar to Simon's podcasts
during the OGB elections, but a bit more conversational perhaps?

Perhaps a roving-reporter at the OpenSolaris picnic with a mic and a
list of questions would be good.

Hope this helps ?

	cheers,
			tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf