[Marketing-wg] OSFA: Need to add events and other items to the site

[Terri Molini]

Hello everyone,

Wanted to send a note and share with you some ideas that came out of the 
inaugural Working Groups Chair meeting this week. As you will see there 
are a few items that will be of interest to the communications and 
marketing teams.

If we could include this as an agenda item for our next meetings that 
would be terrific.

Best,
terri

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The goal of today's meeting was to articulate the responsibilities of 
the working groups.  We came up with the following items:

1. STATE YOUR POSITION.  Each working group should articulate a simple, 
powerful position for your working group -- the elevator pitch, if you 
will, explaining your vision.  That pitch should be front and center on 
your working group's web page.  David Wheeler gave a great example of 
such a pitch (http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/2778-4049).  
(Thanks for sending the link along, David -- now tidy it up and put it 
on the "acquisitions" working group page.  Which, incidentally, you are 
listed as the leader of!  If that's not true, let us know asap.)

*2. TELL YOUR STORIES.  All of you have stories where open source 
intersects with your working group.  It's your job to work with your 
team to find those stories, and make them available to others.  Maybe 
they are stories of successful open source deployments; maybe they are 
castles in the sky of what open source might make possible.  Either way, 
if they are compelling stories that need to be heard, then you need to 
tell them. Even if you're just linking to stories that live somewhere 
else.  One of the key services that OSFA can provide is to be a 
clearinghouse for exactly these kinds of stories.  Make sure you know 
them, and tell them.

3. ADD TO THE LIST OF OSFA EVENTS. If there are events relating to your 
working group that other OSfA members should know about, **please** 
email the list and/or Terri Molini directly, so that we can put them on 
the Calendar of Events.

4. PROVIDE SPEAKERS.  There are lots of opportunities to speak at 
government events, and we are in need of articulate presenters who know 
"open source plus working group area" to fill these slots.  OSFA hopes 
to build a speaker's bureau for these kinds of events, so if you know 
the right people, send them our way. *

5. BUILD YOUR TEAMS.  By now, all of you should be subscribed to the 
mailing lists for your respective working groups.  Recruit people, and 
start the conversations online.  Some of these conversations are already 
quite active; some of them are silent.  We need to get the chatter going 
in every working group.

These are the proposed core responsibilities of the working group chairs.

If you think these responsibilities are incorrect in some way, holler, 
so we can all get on the same page.

If you think these responsibilities make sense, gather your teams and 
move forward.

We will meet again in two weeks, on Wednesday, October 4th at 4pm 
eastern time, to reassess these goals and gauge our progress towards 
meeting them. I hope that all of the chairs are available to attend.

Thanks again to those who were able to make the time today.

--greg

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Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Global Communications, Open Source
OpenSolaris Community, Core Contributor
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
-Woodrow Wilson

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