Not preempting Laura or Sara, I'd offer that posting a blurb on your company's website would be excellent (Sun.com will be doing something similar), and you could possibly embelish it with a button:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/buttons/ Patrick Dan Price wrote: > On Wed 07 Jun 2006 at 03:11PM, David J. Orman wrote: > >>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 > > > David-- > > while I think this is a fair criticism, handling the media is something > that I am not really personally able to do (but see below...). > > One other grass roots thing I am also looking at putting together is an > IRC party on #opensolaris, and looking at ways of making entering the > IRC channel for casual users easier, like a java applet or something. > > >>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. > > > That would be awesome-- the thing you wrote is great. I think that > I was trying only to carve off the blogging part of the birthday > effort-- there is more that hopefully will happen (I at least hope > that we'll see some news articles and stuff). Over in the marketing > community there has been a discussion about the birthday. I hope Sara > and/or Laura will also respond to your point about non-blogging types of > participation. > > -dp > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
