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

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Tim Foster wrote:
> What do people think ? (ignore the simple style, the CSS on
> opensolaris.org will make it look pretty)

I think it's good, and easily achievable by June 14th - if we start getting too
complicated, we won't make that deadline.

> Things I haven't quite worked out are:
> 
>  * firm dates for deadlines

I'd close the competition by June 10th at the very earliest, otherwise doesn't
give us a lot of opportunity to get the word out and people voting.

And for that reason, I'm against John's suggestion of expanding it to the wider
FOSS community.

>  * who gets the final vote on award recipients

I think a working committee as delegated by the OGB (possibly based on a set of
keen volunteers?).

>  * what we can actually give away
>  * how many awards we're offering

I think we only want to give off one award for the top contributor, one award
for the top project (and associated people involved), to a maximum of 10 people.

>  * "Achievement Stars", yes it's a cheesy name
>     - any better ideas for what to call these?

OpenSolaris Rock Stars was Sara's suggestion. I don't mind either way, it's just
a simple way of advertising the cooler parts of opensolaris.org.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&gbv=2&q=web+2.0+badge&btnG=Search+Images

is my suggestion on what it should look like, and should be relatively easy to
create.

> 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.

Let's do just that - finalize the draft announcement and get it out there. I'll
try and see if I can hound someone into doing a badge for the various categories.

> Is there any interest in doing a home-page graphic competition as well ?

Let's not do that for the moment, but advertise the contributor awards on it
with a simple graphic. I think we should have a long running goal of changing
the home-page graphics and highlighting some of our cooler projects and
communities, but I think that's for another discussion.


Glynn