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

[John J McLaughlin]

May I suggest another category? I think we should identify Free Open 
Source Project from outside the OpenSolaris project that work with 
OpenSolaris that the OpenSolaris community thinks is most valuable, by 
category.

e.g. The OpenSolaris community has access to thousands of free and open 
source software packages beyond that which is included in OpenSolaris. 
This year, we are asking the OpenSolaris to nominate their favorites in 
these categories
    Best FOSS Developer tool   
    Best FOSS Database
    Best FOSS Desktop
    Best FOSS Content Management System
    ......

This will have the advantage of getting more members involved, and of 
promoting FOSS packages that make OpenSolaris more useful!

I also see three press release opportunities; one to announce the call 
for nominations, one to announce the nominations and vote and, of 
,course, one to announce the winners.

We will get much more coverage and participation than if we just focus 
inside the project.

Perhaps Dennis could take a swag at suggesting the categories based upon 
the gazzilions of packages on blastwave.org?

-johnj


Tim Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:52 +0100, Tim Foster wrote:
>   
>> If folks are happy with the suggested awards/categories (though there
>> hasn't been much discussion yet; we're short on time) I'll start to
>> write a draft for a call for nominations, and send to this list later
>> tonight to see if there's any more thoughts on it.
>>     
>
> Sorry this has been so delayed - I've attached a draft of a call for
> nominations for the awards this year.
>
> What do people think ? (ignore the simple style, the CSS on
> opensolaris.org will make it look pretty)
>
> Things I haven't quite worked out are:
>
>  * firm dates for deadlines
>  * who gets the final vote on award recipients
>  * what we can actually give away
>  * how many awards we're offering
>  * "Achievement Stars", yes it's a cheesy name
>     - any better ideas for what to call these?
>
> Many of these are dependent on resources, so if someone could chime in
> on that, we'll get the ball rolling. Once we've got the details
> finalised, we can post these to the marketing page, and blast
> announcements to -discuss, -announce and generally make lots more noise
> about the awards.
>
>
> Is there any interest in doing a home-page graphic competition as well ?
>
> 	cheers,
> 			tim
>
>   
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>     2nd Annual OpenSolaris Contributor Awards - call for nominations
>
> Over the course of the past year, a great deal of fantastic work has 
> been done on the OpenSolaris project, and it's time for the community 
> to get together to recognise the achievements of people, projects and 
> communities over that time.
>
> As with our awards last year 
> <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/contributoraward/>, 
> we want to show our appreciation 
> <Link%20to%20whatever%0A%20prizes%20we%20can%20give%20away%20this%20year> 
> to the people you think deserve special recognition for their hard work.
>
> We'd also like to award special Achievement Stars 
> <Link%20to%20rosette-ish%20graphic> to projects or communities that 
> you think did particularly well over the course of the year.
>
> So our categories are:
>
>     * contributors of the year
>     * projects of the year
>     * communities of the year
>
> However in order for this to work, we need *YOUR NOMINATIONS* for 
> people, projects and communities that you feel deserve recognition.
>
> Send email to opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org 
> <mailto:opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org> with your nominations for 
> one or all of these categories by our nomination deadline, *June 6th* 
> - we'll post the results on the 14th of June 2007 (the 2nd Anniversary 
> of OpenSolaris!). Please include a short description as to why you 
> think these people, projects or communities deserve special recognition.
>
> You can nominate as many people, projects and communities as you like, 
> and we'll be awarding a total of /X/ individual contributor awards, 
> /Y/ project awards and /Z/ community awards - you may be interested in 
> the following lists:
>
>     * OpenSolaris Communities
>       <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#portal>
>     * OpenSolaris Projects
>       <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/projects/#portal>
>
> Now, *get nominating * - we look forward to seeing your submissions!
>
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