FYI ... happenings from the storage community
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Subject: Storage Community July '07 - June '08 Report
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:04:08 -0600
From: Jeff Cheeney <jeff.chee...@sun.com>
To: Storage Discuss <storage-discuss at opensolaris.org>
Following the lead of the innovative and trend-setting Jim Grisanzio I
too am sending out a Fiscal Year end report for the OpenSolaris Storage
community. For those not employed by Sun, just think of this as a year
in review starting half-way through the calendar year ;-)
This summary does not include every detail and I'm sure there are many
items I've missed, but you'll get the sense of how the community is
growing (from a Sun perspective). I encourage you all to check out these
stats and give me suggestions on what to track for the next 6 months and
also suggestions on where/ how we can continue to grow. It been a busy
year, but lots of fun ... --jc
Storage Community Annual Report
FY08: July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
The Storage Community showed great growth this past year. After creating
an umbrella community for all storage related projects back in April
2007, the community has seen an impressive level of growth in
participants and participation. With the increased number participants
and their willingness to learn and share, we have also seen a rise in
the number of people answering questions on the forums. This is real
proof that when a community is open others can learn and grow. Sharing
the knowledge helps us all.
For the purpose of the following stats, only Sun owned web properties
were surveyed. This due to the limitation of our statistic gathering
infrastructure and our bandwidth. (It already takes on average 2 days a
month to gather and distill this data).
Storage Community Quick Facts:
* Projects
o 36 approved & live
o 5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
o 6 non-Sun leaders
* Community
o 136 Storage Observers
o 232 ZFS Observers
o 27 Core Contributors (all storage communities)
o 35 Contributors (all storage communities)
* Forum Membership
o Storage-discuss: 436
o Total: 4082
* Traffic
o Web: 697,936 hits/yr
o Forums: 14,594 msg/yr
* Blogs:
o Posts: 396/ 6 mo
o Hits: 752,139 /yr
Storage Community Pages
* This includes all storage related projects and community pages.
(ZFS, SVM, UFS, NFS and all endorsed projects)
* Traffic increased 18% y/y
* A great deal of energy has been put into the storage community
pages. Including:
o Audience specifics pages (Developer, Sys Admin)
o Page dedicated to projects and a very cool (IMHO) graphic
showing the storage stack
o A community spotlight pages was added to hold interviews
with community members
o The site (and ZFS pages) has also recently been localized
into 6 languages (French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese,
Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Russian)
Storage Discussion Forums
* With a current membership of over 4,000 the storage community
represents the single largest groups of OpenSolaris forum subscribers
* The forum traffic grew 12% in FY08 and the total subscribers grew
18% (since December 2007)
Other Highlights:
* Storage related blog views on blogs.sun.com grew 45% in FY08 and
there are on average 79 storage related blog posts
* The Storage Community attended numerous events and user group
meetings (FAST, SNIA SDC, Storage Networking World, C1, and others)
* A Storage starter kit was created as a give-away at the various
events. This kit included information about the storage projects
and many videos
* Videos: on average 1 new video was posted during the last 12
months. The StorageStop blog now have over 50 hours of storage
related videos.
Goals and Futures:
* A OpenSolaris Storage Developer "summit"
* More community interviews
* Blogs/ Articles/ Recipes on how to deploy the OpenSolaris Storage
stack
* Attend and support more events
* Would love to have some university research based on OpenSolaris
* .... lots more fun ...
