Ian’s reply to my question.
Robert, will anyone from ATF be at the members’
meeting and/or the European Summit?
From: Ian Skerrett
[mailto:ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 1:57
PM
To: Tim Wagner
Cc: 'WTP PMC communications
(including coordination, announcements, and Group discussions)'; donald.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx; 'Lynn Gayowski'
Subject: RE: WTP sub-project
awareness
Tim,
I think there are potential two or three
different audiences you are looking at, probably each requires a different
tactic/timing. First, I am a big beliver that nothing will happen
until you get running code into cvs. Sorry I can’t keep up
with all of the projects, so I am not sure if your subprojects have code yet?
For developers (who I think would become
users and potential contributors), I would suggest there are a number of things
we can do to help raise awareness. We are doing a series fo
webinars, similar to what we did with Callisto. We could try to do
one on one of these sub-projects. I am also going to do another
series of podcast with EclipseZone, so we could do something there.
For contributor/committers/adopters, we are
looking for lightening talks for the members meeting. This would
allow you to get infront of the member representatives. We will
also have a table top exhibit during the reception , that projects are invited
to participate.
Those are some of the things that come to
mind. As always, I’d love to help get an article published
about one of the subprojects. If you send me an abstract I can help pitch
it to different publications. Technical articles IMHO are the best
thing for getting awareness/adoption.
I hope this helps.
Ian
From: Tim Wagner
[mailto:twagner@xxxxxxx]
Sent: August 28, 2006 1:13 AM
To: Ian Skerrett
Cc: WTP PMC communications
(including coordination, announcements, and Group discussions)
Subject: WTP sub-project awareness
Ian,
The WTP PMC is looking for ways to increase awareness around
our sub projects – JSF, Dali/JPA, and ATF. All of these areas are
receiving a great deal of attention from developers, but we have not had a
corresponding influx of community members or new committers, particularly
outside the existing member company lines.
Any ideas for ways we could drive awareness / engagement at
all levels – end users, product and project adoption, and
contributor/committer interest? I had thought of adding some banner info on the
WTP website, but you may have more highly leveraged options available. Any
ideas appreciated,
Tim