take it for what it's worth given that i'm an analyst, rather than a contributor, but my two cents say the best thing you can do is to continue reaching out to new communities. the efforts to get DTrace working with PHP, Python, Ruby et al will do more to evangelize the product than any personal evangelism efforts, IMO.
the difficult aspect, from a scale perspective, is that lots of these types of efforts are needed, both because it's difficult to build mindshare and because historically the successful partnerships and cross-pollination efforts are the exception, not the rule. the old shotgun approach, in essence. to the question of whether you're doing the right things, in the right places, i'd say mostly yes. OS is coming up more frequently, but no project - Linux included - got its mindshare overnight. the demonstrations of functionality are quite convincing - to people that see them - and do illustrate the value that Solaris has. are there things that could be done better? certainly. screencasts might be one angle to consider, and my personal pet peeve - that lots of the Sun folks have heard from me before - is documentation. look at the documentation available for Gentoo, for example, and then look at what's available for OS. documentation, boring as it might be, is necessary to lowering the barriers to adoption. appealing to the Solaris knowledgable crowd isn't likely to be an issue for this community; but appealing to other crowds might be. documentation is one way of addressing that. as far as worrying about what external commentators - myself included - have to say, i'd worry instead about what other folks in the communities you might touch (languages, applications or otherwise) have to say. ultimately, they're the people you need to convince. do that, and analyst and reporters opinions alike will follow. anyways, apologies for the off topic post, but thought it was a subject worth calling out. and now back to your regularly scheduled discussions ;) - sog On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:22 -0700, Young Song wrote: > If you have ideas on what to do to evangelize the community, I'd like to > know and would be happy to spend time on this. I'm fairly new to > OpenSolaris.org, and sorry if the information was discussed somewhere > before. I work in the globalization organization at Sun and posted a > couple of suggestions on translation and localization testing process in > the i18n discuss list, but haven't seen a single reply. ;-) > > > Young _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
