I would add Students as an explicit category we need to attract as well, as one of the primary issues we face is Solaris was the OS for CS majors in the 90's, and now it's Linux. Many students in some of the focus groups we've run talk about how their dads (or in one case grandfather I kid you not!) use Solaris, not any of their friends.
If our goal is to grow the OpenSolaris ecosystem, there are only 2 ways to add new users: -Take them from someone else's ecosystem -Add new ones to the mix via Students Dan John Plocher wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> This wouldn't happen -- IMO -- if an opensolaris.com site existed >> without an opensolaris.org site standing in contrast to it. > > > If it was done poorly, yes, this could be a problem. > > It doesn't have to be done poorly, though. Look at the > MySQL .com and .org sites, one for those who want to use > it in a commercial setting and the other for the development > and enthusiast community. > > The current OS.o site is complicated by the fact that we > have mixed up the developer and user roles. Alan mentioned > that there are 100,000 registered users on the site. I'd > put money on the fact that most of them are not at all > interested in becoming OS.o developers per se, but rather > are users, sysadmins and curious people whosimply want to > learn more about what we arre doing. > > Rather than inventing a solution and then trying to fit > everything into it, I'd rather start with a high level > understanding of the various target roles that we (Sun > *and* the community) are trying to address, group them > together based on similarity, and then figure out how > best to address their needs. > > Here is what I came up with: > > Developers: > > OpenSolaris Core development - the people, processes and > governance related to the development and evolution of > the core OpenSolaris consolidations themselves. I'd > put ON, X, Admin, Install and some of SFW here; I don't > know a lot about cluster and storage, but I suspect they > fit in here as well. (I think of these as Consolidations) > > OpenSolaris application and add-on content development - > the people, processes and governance related to the > development and evolution of optional/add-on/3rd party > OpenSolaris applications (some of SFW, Blastwave, > SunFreeware, ...) > > OpenSolaris Distro development - the people, processes > and governance related to the development and evolution of > the various OpenSolaris distributions > > Somewhere in the continuum between developers and consumers > > OpenSolaris Special Interest Groups - discussion forums > and meeting places for people who share a common themed > interest in the development activities happening in the > OpenSolaris community. SIGs have some role to play in > the creation of new development projects, roadmaps and > other best practice guidelines and policies > > OpenSolaris User Groups - Geographically organized groups > of OpenSolaris users that value exchanging information, > issues and solutions amongst themselves. User groups > have some role to play in outreach, community growth, > evangelism etc. > > Consumers: > > OpenSolaris Users and Customers - People and organizations > that wish to learn about, try, and use OpenSolaris in some > way. > > OpenSolaris Marketplace - selling and buying products and > services related to OpenSolaris > > While I'd like to see this all done together on a single web > site, I can also see how a .org site aimed at the developers > and a .com site aimed at users (with the SIGs and UGs fitting > in to one, the other, or both as their needs dictate) could > also work. > > -John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
