[osol-mktg] Re: 2nd Anniversary time (nothing to do with Indiana really)

Mon May 21 09:39:55 PDT 2007

Hi All,

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:57 -0700, michelle olson wrote:
> 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.

Okay, here's some more concrete suggestions.

I think there should be contributor awards for:

  - projects of the year
  - communities of the year
  - individuals of the year

[ or singular versions of the above, depending on what prizes are
available ]

The idea would be that users should vote from the list of projects or
communities at:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#portal
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/projects/#portal

Individuals can be anyone, I guess.

Rather than wait for nominations, we should just take every
project/community/person as being nominated for an award, then just
count the number of votes each one gets.

Awards would be judged by voters based on the work that those
projects/communities have done over the course of the last year (from
June 14th 2006 to June 14th 2007) - the criteria are free for
interpretation, but here's some suggestions.

Has a community/project/individual:

 - been especially helpful in your use of OpenSolaris
 - produced some killer feature you think is cool
 - been working on something that makes
    * your laptop battery last longer
    * a task quicker to implement
    * your server faster
    * a problem easier to diagnose
    * it easier to get girls (well, whatever - you get the idea)

Do we have a voting mechanism open to all 50,000 registered users of
opensolaris.org ? Would poll.opensolaris.org work for this or is that
currently limited to people listed as contributors ?

It'd be nice if each vote had an accompanying bit of text explaining why
<such & such> a project/community/individual deserves an award, that
could be used to help decide tie-breakers, but I'm not sure if it's
technically possible.

We'd then count the votes, and in the event of a tie for <however many
awards we can give away>, we let the OGB, or some other body that's
appointed in advance have the final decision.

Would any of that work ?

> 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?

Here's the rules from last year - these look okay to me.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-July/003299.html

Just need to decide on a committee to vote on the results. (unless of
course we want to open it up to all ~50,000 registered users on
opensolaris.org ?) I think having 30,000 people vote for a banner that's
inappropriate would be bad though - so some artistic judgement should be
reserved I think...

Actually someone (me, if I have time) should update 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/homepagegraphics/
before (if ?) we post this competition.

> 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?

Yep, works for me - we've got a regular IE-OSUG meeting planned for June
12th/13th and I'll have a camera and a mp3 recorder along for the ride.
Might not be not a picnic in our case, though we can certainly provide
photos of beer, if that helps :-)

	cheers,
			tim

> 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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Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
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