Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-06 17:11:23 +0300: > On 05/06/15 16:13, Anne Gentle wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In the interest of communicating sooner rather than later, I wanted to > > write a new thread to say that Flavio Percoco and I are going to work > > on a TC communications plan as co-chairs of a TC communications > > working group. > > > > I think we can find a happy medium amongst meeting minutes, gerrit > > reviews, and irregular blog entries by applying some comms planning, > > so that Flavio and I can dive in. > > > > Please answer these questions on the list if you're interested in > > shaping the communications plan: > > > > Audience considerations: > > Is the primary audience current OpenStack contributors or those in > > consumer roles? > I would think Consumer Roles, most contributors are already in the know > and on the mailing lists and meetings.
I think you're overestimating the number of contributors who actually manage to keep up with all of the traffic on this list. We should address both audiences. > > What percentage of the audience are fairly new contributors? Fairly > > new to OpenStack itself? > > Is the audience more likely to be an "outsider looking in" to > > OpenStack governance? > I would think so. The 'insider' already knows where and how to find the > information. > > Is the audience wanting to click links to learn more, or do they just > > want the summary? > Both would be great. There will be those who only want a summary, but > sometimes would also like a bit more detail on a specific subject > > Does the audience always want an action to take, or is simply getting > > information their goal? > I would leave that up to the audience. But if this is a communication > channel - we should decide if it should be one-way or both ways. > > > > Channel considerations: > > Is this audience with their goals more likely to use blogs, RSS, and > > Twitter or subscribe to mailing lists? > If we are talking about the non-contributor - a definite no to mailing > and a huge yes to the first part of the list. > > Depending on the channels chosen, is cross-posting to multiple > > channels a huge error, or are we leaning towards a wide net rather > > than laser targeting? > Cross posting should be fine since it will mostly be a link pointing to > the main source of content - which will be a blog post of some sorts. > > Is there another channel we haven't considered that is widely consumed? > FaceBook? But I personally don't go near it. > > Does the cadence have to be weekly, even if "not much happened with > > the TC" is the activity rate for the week? > I do no think it has to be weekly, because perhaps that would become > quite boring - if nothing really happened. I would say it should > according to the need - but a minimum of once a month (even if there was > nothing exciting). > > > > Thanks all for participating and giving input. > > > > Anne and Flavio > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
