I would love to take the credit for getting this going but in reality it is Joe, David and many other folks who voiced themselves on getting this started - I may have been a little more annoying than the rest.
Here is the next steps I propose we take, feel free to adjust and alter as necessary. This is something similar to Agile process. Lets come with ideas and rough outline on how to accomplish it Post ideas on wiki for early review preferably a day before the meeting day On the meeting we: Classify the ideas by how much effort it takes (short or long term) Gage the result/impact we may get by accomplishing idea X and assigning a weight value and impact score from scale of 1-10 Further we break them into sprint cycles Sprint 1 Pick the fast achievable high impact ideas with least effort first - expand on it Break them down into smaller tasks Deligate the tasks amongst volunteers with due date Each idea is going to have a lead/project manager Lead is going to follow up with assignees and update the group on progress (we should probably use JIRA or another project management tool similar to basecamp - I can provide access) In this sprint, if possible - accomplish least effort high impact ideas first Sprint 2 We focus high effort high impact Follow the same process as in Sprint 1 So on and so forth... This is the format I propose and feel free to comment and alter as needed or replace it altogether for a better one. Lets have at least a draft of the format we will use and maybe some ideas to discuss on our first meeting. Thank you for joing this group and working together Regards Ilya Radhika Puthiyetath <[email protected]> wrote: A superb initiative Ilya. >From my limited knowledge and observation, I felt, we should start from the >grassroots level. Form groups, be visible as an active community across the >media. Popularity increases when people start noticing and discussing the initiatives done by the community: Let's have more n more informal learning sessions across the cities as part of this campaign. Let's go to colleges, form student communities, and spread the good word. When we talk relentlessly about CloudStack, people will start observing what we do other than talking, and then they definitely discuss what we have done, and what we have been doing :):):) -Radhika From: Giles Sirett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:50 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Cloudstack marketing Hi marketing folks First of all, Ilya, I think this is a fantastic initiative. Cloudstack is great technology, its main weakness to date has been poor perception in the market: as a second rate player to Openstack. The main issue I see is that Rackspace, et al *openly* back Openstack whereas Citrix back CS from a distance (I wont criticise Citrix for this, they have been great in their donation and MASSIVE contribution to date) . Therefore, we don't have a big name vendor assocated with the project At ShapeBlue, we have done a lot over the last year to help *try* and change that perception, but theres still lots more to do. I'm about to go on vacation for a week, so haven't really got time to start to work up ideas and tell you how I (we) can contribute to this effort, but we certainly will. Kind Regards Giles Giles Sirett CEO & Managing Consultant (UK) D: +44 20 3603 0541 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com/> | Twitter:@shapeBlue<https://twitter.com/#!/shapeblue> ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS, UK ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue's expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
