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From: Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 1:49 pm
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] You are Invited! Birthday Blog Party on June 14th!

> On Tue 06 Jun 2006 at 04:50PM, Dan Price wrote:
> So... 24 hours gone by and I've heard (privately) from only one person
> about this proposal.  Is anyone planning to blog on the 14th?  I'm
> trying to gauge the apparent lack of interest...

The only people I know who blog are a few Sun-diehards (jamesd for example) and 
@sun people. I didn't respond because I don't blog, and nobody I know (except 
the previously mentioned people) blog. It's not so much a lack of interest on 
my part, it's just that blogging isn't how I'd handle the birthday. :) I didn't 
want to derail your thread, so I didn't comment.

> To ask it another way: if what I proposed isn't good, what adjustments
> need to be made?

Add something to your proposal that doesn't involve blogging. To explain, some 
people (such as myself) generally thing blogs are a waste of space on the 
internet. Of course, that is completely my opinion, and quite obviously a lot 
of people disagree. To each their own! This isn't intended to start an 
argument, please don't. The point is, I am excluded from your grassroots b-day 
movement, because I don't blog/don't condone blogging. I would suggest instead 
of limiting it to blogging, you open it up to other areas. News sites, etc. I'd 
be glad to put a little blurb about the birthday on my business's main page, 
something like: "We run Solaris and wanted to point out how far things are 
progressing with the OpenSolaris community, it's been a year and OpenSolaris is 
still gaining momentum. The OpenSolaris community is full of innovation and 
technical capability, and our infrastructure benefits greatly! We want to take 
the time to thank all of the community members that make our a
bsolutely amazingly reliable servers possible, and let all of our clients know 
that we will continue to interact and work with the OpenSolaris community to 
keep improving our systems."

However, you want to write it, something like this. The key is not limiting the 
scope of the grassroots movement you suggest we start.

Cheers,
David
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