Project Indiana Marketing was: [osol-mktg] 2nd Anniversary time

[Sara Dornsife]

I'm sure by now everyone has heard of "Project Indiana" and Sun's desire 
to create an OpenSolaris distribution with the community. This has 
become my focus at work. I have been asked, granted the opportunity, to 
build and run a marketing organization for this project.

I have given offers to Glynn Foster and Patrick Finch to help drive this 
effort and we are all working very closely with Ian Murdock to make this 
happen.

So, regrettably, I've been distracted. This anniversary is coming up and 
not enough has been done on my part to get there. I apologize. It's 
pretty rude to bring these things up and then neglect them.

But we still have time. If we get the rules, nominations and voting in 
place by June 1st, I don't see any reason why we couldn't complete and 
announce our contributors by the 14th.

I think only 2 people commented on doing this at all in the first place, 
so I need to know if there is still interest here. Please let me know.
Sara


Tim Foster wrote:
> 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
>   
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