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Community meeting November 9th, 2006
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Agenda:
- Aperi 2007 Community Building/Marketing decision meeting overview
- Voting Rules
- Voting topics
Vote # | Vote Topic | Vote Type | Votes Cast | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Marketing/Community Building: Meetings Frequency | Majority | TBD | TBD |
2 | Marketing/Community Building: Meetings day/time | Priority | TBD | TBD |
3 | Marketing/Community Building: Team Responsibilities | Majority | TBD | TBD |
4 | Events: Important events to have an Aperi Booth present | Priority | TBD | TBD |
5 | Events: Criteria for organizing an Aperi Booth at an event | Majority | TBD | TBD |
6 | Press/Analysts: milestones that should trigger outreach activity | Majority | TBD | TBD |
7 | Press/Analysts: Acceptable communication vehicles with Press and Anlaysts | Majority | TBD | TBD |
8 | Speaking: Important speaking opportunities at events and symposiums | Priority | TBD | TBD |
9 | Speaking: Criteria for organizing a speaking opportunity at events and conferences | Majority | TBD | TBD |
10 | Activities: Important non-event activities for Aperi | Priority | TBD | TBD |
Vote Topic descriptions:
Vote #1: Proposal for Marketing/Community Building Meetings Frequency
- Vote for the preferred meeting option. Majority decision will be our operating model thru end of 2007.
- Monthly 1 hour Marketing/Community Building conference call
- Every other week 1 hour Marketing/Community Building conference call
- Weekly 1 hour Marketing/Community Building conference call
Vote #2: Proposal for Marketing/Community Building Meetings Timeslot
- Prioritize the best day/times you are available. 1 (highest) -5 (lowest). The timeslot with the lowest total will be our meeting time thru end of 2007.
- Thursday 2pm PT/5pm ET
- Thursday 3pm PT/6pm ET
- Wed 1pm PT/4pm ET
- suggestion 4
- suggestion 5
- addtional suggested timeslots are welcome
Vote #3: Proposal for Marketing/Community Building team responsibilities
- Discuss any adjustments or additions to the list, and vote on adopting the list as a whole. Majority decision will be our team responsibilities thru end of 2007.
- Develop calendar of activities based on priorities and decisions made by community
- Set decision dates for go/nogo on each event and speaking opportunity
- Determine newsworthiness of key milestones and build plan for communication with Media and Analyst
- Responsible for interlock with Eclipse Marketing and Press contacts
- Responsible for budget of all activities
- Prepare FAQs, Analyst Update Materials and Community Building Materials
- Secure Quotes from participating companies
- Provide Technical 'Getting Started' material, such as tutorials and demo installations
Vote #4: Proposal for events to include an Aperi booth
- Prioritize the importance of Aperi having an Aperi booth at each of the events. 1 (highest) -9 (lowest). The events with lower totals will be given priority first.
- SNW US Spring
- SNW US Fall
- SNW EMEA
- SNW AP
- Gartner Datacenter Conference
- Storage Decisions
- Storage World Spring
- Storage World Fall
- Storage Expos (multiple EMEA)
Note: There are no restrictions on having Aperi Project material at vendor booths at events like EclipseWorld and LinuxWorld
Vote #5: Proposal for criteria to organize an Aperi booth at an event
- Vote for most preferred Booth Criteria option. Majority decision will be our 2007 operating model.
- Option 1: Aperi can sponsor a booth at an event if there are 3 or more project participants willing to share the work and expense
- Option 2: Aperi can sponsor a booth at an event if there is at least one participant willing to fund the effort and at least 3 participants willing to be at the event to represent the project
- Option 3: Aperi can sponsor a booth at an event if there is one participant willing to fund and do the work
?Need to add sentence to clarify what participation means....e.g. booth attendance, speaking, demoing.
Vote #6: Proposal for milestones that should trigger Press/Analysts outreach activities
- Gain concurrence on significant milestones for proactive press and analyst outreach. Vote Yes or No vote if each of the following milestones should result in proactive press and analyst outreach.
- New project participants (contributors, committers, consumers of code)
- Aperi release of code
- Exiting incubation; Release 1.0
- Major roadmap updates
- CTP testing results
- Implementation of new SMI standards
- Announcement Commercial products shipping with Aperi code
Vote #7: Proposal for acceptable communication vehicles with Press and Anlaysts
- Vote Yes or No vote if each of the following methods are acceptable vehicles for sharing milestones pro-actively with press and analyst.
- Eclipse Foundation Aperi project press release
- Joint SNIA and Eclipse Foundation Aperi press release
- Participating company press release
- Email updates w/o formal press release
- A minimum of two companies to provide a quote for any press release, with a formal rotation of who does the quote
Vote #8: Proposal for 2007 Speaking opportunities at events and symposiums
- Prioritize the events 1(highest) -13 (lowest) in terms of importance for Aperi to submit a presentation at this event or conference.
- EclipseCon March 5-8th Santa Clara, CA
- File and Storage Technology Academic Conf Feb 2007 San Jose
- IEEE Mass Storage Conference, San Diego or Washington DC
- 2007 SNIA Dev Conference (date?)
- SNW US Spring
- SNW US Fall
- SNW EMEA
- SNW AP
- Gartner Datacenter Conference
- Storage Decisions
- Storage World Spring
- Storage World Fall
- Storage Expos (multiple EMEA)
- StorageNetworking.org SNUGs
Note: There are no restrictions on talking about the Aperi Project at vendor booths at events like EclipseWorld and LinuxWorld