[osol-mktg] Re: 2nd Anniversary time (nothing to do with Indiana
really)
michelle olson
michelle.olson at sun.com
Mon May 21 13:44:55 PDT 2007
Tim Foster wrote:
> 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 ]
>
>
I like this idea, it is better than just the individual awards, and will
give folks some more interesting information about the projects they
might not know about. What prizes are available, Sara? If a community or
project wins, how would prizes be distributed-- to the leaders or to all
members?
> 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 ?
>
We should ping the tools-discuss about the question above and the
specifics below.
> 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 think it would.
>
>> 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...
>
Agreed, we should ask the committee from last year to judge again, IMO,
they have done a great job in the past.
> 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
>
Great! I pinged ug-discuss asking about this Friday, but that must be
the wrong list because no one responded. I'll bring my camera to SVOSUG
picnic June 9th, FWIW.
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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