Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sara Dornsife wrote: Yes. We all should. But, we obviously can't buy every one of our 13,000 registered members a shirt and ship it to them. Although that would be nice, it's pretty cost prohibitive. If we made a special commemorative t-shirt and put it on the Sun open source cafepress store

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Terri Molini
I like these ideas! -terri Jim Grisanzio wrote On 04/27/06 14:33,: Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions * documentation contributions * most innovative work with OpenSolaris source

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
Shouldn't we all have 1 Year Anniversary t-shirts by now? :) Terri Molini wrote: I like these ideas! -terri Jim Grisanzio wrote On 04/27/06 14:33,: Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions *

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-28 Thread Sara Dornsife
Yes. We all should. But, we obviously can't buy every one of our 13,000 registered members a shirt and ship it to them. Although that would be nice, it's pretty cost prohibitive. If we made a special commemorative t-shirt and put it on the Sun open source cafepress store (or anywhere else

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-27 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions * documentation contributions * most innovative work with OpenSolaris source * something with the distributions * mail list activity -- most posts * best ideas *

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-27 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Terri Molini wrote: I like these ideas! -terri Thanks, Terri. I'd love for PR to participate along with everyone else on this. Are reporters/analysts still pinging you guys for OpenSolaris stuff? Are they aware that the one year anniversary for the project is coming up? Jim Jim

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-27 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 4/27/06, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we could consider giving out some awards to community members who have achieved something in their area? * code contributions * documentation contributions * most innovative work with OpenSolaris source * something with the

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-26 Thread Sara Dornsife
I like the idea a lot. We don't have the "Band of Brothers" ISO yet though. We do have what Stephen Lau has been handing out which is based on the Solaris Express Community Edition. Would that work? Any ideas on how many we might go through in a given month? We can make the ISO and DVD

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-26 Thread Erast Benson
Oh, another thing I'd like to add. Ubuntu community very concerned about whether to ship their ISOs as DVD or as CD media. They claim (and I think it is very true) that a lot of their potential users still do not have DVD drive and will not have for a long time. I think the requirement would be to

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-26 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 4/26/06, Sara Dornsife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea a lot. We don't have the Band of Brothers ISO yet though. We do have what Stephen Lau has been handing out which is based on the Solaris Express Community Edition. Would that work? Any ideas on how many we might go through

[osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-25 Thread Karyn Ritter
Sorry for the virtual cross-post... The 1-year anniversary celebration is all about the great strides and contributions the community has made over the past year. Start sending out your ideas about what things the community can do to help celebrate being open for a year. It's an opportunity

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-25 Thread Sara Dornsife
If we don't want to clog up this list with all of the MANY ideas that are going to stream in, we can move it over to the marketing list (cc'd here) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] And any ideas are welcome. I volunteer to compile the ideas that come in and we can vote on them. Things like changes to the

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-25 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Karyn Ritter wrote: Sorry for the virtual cross-post... The 1-year anniversary celebration is all about the great strides and contributions the community has made over the past year. Start sending out your ideas about what things the community can do to help celebrate being open for a year.

Re: [osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

2006-04-25 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sara Dornsife wrote: If we don't want to clog up this list with all of the MANY ideas that are going to stream in, we can move it over to the marketing list (cc'd here) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] And any ideas are welcome. I volunteer to compile the