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

[michelle olson]

Hi,

I'm still interested, I think the contributor awards are a good 
recognition program, let's hammer out the rules and get voting set up.

I agree we should also have the graphic contest for the front page, I do 
plan to participate in that again, seems like we already have that 
process figured out, just need to announce it and set up a page for the 
entries, right?

I love the idea of the podcasts Tim suggested and I think we need to 
make the picnic global. I talked to Benr about this last week and here's 
my idea: we ask the User Group leaders to organize a picnic to celebrate 
the 2nd Birthday right out side the usual user group meeting location 
during the week of the anniversary. This should be light-weight, just an 
announcement and potluck, or just beer or something simple. Tell folks 
to bring cameras or a recording device for podcasts. Then we post the 
podcasts and pictures from each picnic on all the community pages of 
opensoalris.org throughout the week. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Michelle

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> 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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