Nice. I'd like to see all our top-level communities provide a report like this regularly. Apache expects them quarterly; we might want them twice each year.
S. On Jul 3, 2008, at 09:37, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > fyi: I wrote a little annual report for Advocacy so we are all on > the same page about where Advocacy is at this point in time. Hope > it's helpful for understanding this CG as the OGB evaluates overall > OpenSolaris CG issues. If the mail generates any conversation on > advocacy-discuss, I'll report that back at a future date. -- Jim > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [advocacy-discuss] Advocacy CG FY08 Report > Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:31:34 +0900 > From: Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM> > To: OpenSolaris Advocacy <advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org> > hey ... since I live at Sun and I'm used to chopping up the year > into fiscal quarters and doing reports and such, I figured I'd write > one for Advocacy while I was at it. I think it's a good habit to get > into for governance as well, so I'll send a link to the OGB so they > know what we're up to over here. I'm not perfect with stats or > keeping track of everything, but I think this is close enough to > give a brief outline of where we are and how we got here. Hope it's > useful. Feel free to chip at it and add stuff ... -- Jim G. > > > Advocacy Community Group Annual Report > FY08: July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008 > > The Advocacy CG grew substantially last year. It was created via a > merger of three old communities during the OGB's initial community > reorg. Advocacy also migrated the OSUGs from individual pages to be > full projects on the site. The CG merger and OSUG migrations took > approximately six months, and the process was entirely manual. About > 10 OSUG pages were deleted in the migration process because they had > been abandoned, and more than two dozen new groups were added. > Advocacy also sponsored some non-UG projects and several additional > lists as well. Most lists grew in activity and membership. Aside > from one shipment of Sun materials to the OSUGs, all the activities > in Advocacy were based on community involvement and the growth was > largely organic. Although the vast majority of Advocacy traffic is > based around OSUGs, Advocacy members at Sun and outside Sun > participate many dozens of Sun and industry conferences around the > world with technical and non-technical presentations. > > Advocacy Community Group > Created the Advocacy CG by merging the Marketing, Immigrants, and > User Group communities. > Merged communities were deleted after the process was complete. > Merged community lists were archived and linked to from Advocacy. > OpenSolaris User Groups: > Migrated 53 OSUGs to new projects sponsored by Advocacy. > Deleted 10 abandoned OSUGs during the migration. > Added 26 new OSUGs for a total of 69. > Sent UG kits (shirts, hats, DVDs, bottle openers, etc) to 56 OSUGs, > which took several months. > General: > OSUGs: 69 > OSUGs that have lists but have yet to open projects: 10 > Non-UG projects: 3 > Lists: 85 > Membership of all lists: 5, 795 > Best guess of list membership overlap: about 20% > advocacy-discuss subscriptions increased from 350 to 425. > OSUG list subscriptions increased from 3,000 to 4,858. > Advocacy Contributors: 7 > Advocacy Core Contributors: 102 > Conferences: Many dozens. > Needs/Goals: (just making these up off the top of my head) > Grow advocacy-discuss and the OSUGs. > Connect more of the global advocacy operations and get the content > on to advocacy-discuss. > Editors to maintain pages (delete, add, update, etc). > News writers for the Newsletter. > Conference organizers to manage events on list. > More Contributors. We have too many CCs. > Add 28 Jive forum gateways for OSUG lists. > Sun Resources: > FY08: One global shipment of OSUG kits. > Planned for FY09: I don't know. > -- > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080703/b3ceb761/attachment.html>
