First of all, congratulations to all of you for having put in so much effort behind this great release!. Now, we just need to have a great finish this week. Here are some of the things we can do towards having a fantastic release: 1. Release soon. JavaOne is next week, and we defintely want to release TomEE ASAP. David blevins will be talking at JavaOne and its a great opportunity to atleast let the folks know about TomEE. Timing wise , this is a superb opportunity for releasing a shiny brand new TomEE. 2. Website: Replace the current home page of OpenEJB with something like this: http://people.apache.org/~kmalhi/ . This is just temporary and we will get back to our home page after a few days. Keep it simple, focussed, and encourage folks to download and install. No distractions, no gimmicks, a to the point message and then download. Remove all barriers to download and use (which is usually too much information on a page). The font, colors etc on the mockup page are ugly and i do not have the artistic ability to provide something fancy, but simple, bright colors would be cool . Feel free to suggest, changes to content in the mockup, I just made it up quickly as i created the mockup, could put more thought into it and definitely more ideas are welcome. Personally, would prefer if our generous artist could give us this one fantastic page on TomEE, I would like to prioritise this over our website template. 3. Twitter account for TomEE: Not sure if we already have one, if not, we need one. Tweet and retweet as often and as much as possible. Also add the HashTag #JavaOne in it, this way it appears here:- http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html. Oh and if we could have a twitter section on the TomEE page , that would be awesome 4. Be ready to answer questions on the users mailing list. This is probably the best possibly way to let users know, we are active, we care and are available for the longer run. 5. If you bump into something which is blatantly wrong in the TomEE docs, just change it. Fix as you go.
There are other ideas too, but practically speaking, if we get the above done, that would be cool!. -- Karan Singh Malhi twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi
