From Terri.Molini at Sun.COM Thu Oct 22 14:16:30 2009 From: Terri.Molini at Sun.COM (Terri Molini) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:16:30 -0500 Subject: [press] OSFA: Need to add events and other items to the site Message-ID: <4AE0AF8E.9000702@sun.com> 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 ---------snip------------ 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 ---------snip------------ -- Terri Molini Sun Microsystems, Inc. Global Communications, Open Source OpenSolaris Community, Core Contributor OpenOffice.org Community member +1 (408) 404-4976 office +1 (408) 406-9021 mobile AIM: tmolini "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -Woodrow Wilson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Kara Nick Hoover wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm wondering if OSA has any comment on the White House's move to > Drupal on the LAMP stack? > > Thanks, > Nick > > > > _______________ > > J. Nicholas Hoover > > Senior Editor > > InformationWeek > > 516-562-5032 > > nhoover at techweb.com > > Twitter: iweeknick > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > press mailing list > press at opensourceforamerica.org > http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press > -- Kara Schiltz Corporate Communications Red Hat, Inc. office: 919.301.3002 cell: 919.924.8557 Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ From Terri.Molini at Sun.COM Mon Oct 26 10:00:57 2009 From: Terri.Molini at Sun.COM (Terri Molini) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00:57 -0500 Subject: [press] Comment on White House moving to Drupal? In-Reply-To: <4AE5B342.4090309@redhat.com> References: <4AE5B342.4090309@redhat.com> Message-ID: <11249B8E-29A3-402E-AED0-FFEE6EB64BC1@sun.com> I have formal statements for this effort. Terri Molini Global Communications Sun Microsystems (P) (408) 404-4976 terri.molini at sun.com On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Kara Schiltz wrote: > I'll grab this one. I'm following up with Nick now. > > Thanks, > Kara > > Nick Hoover wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> I'm wondering if OSA has any comment on the White House's move to >> Drupal on the LAMP stack? >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> >> >> _______________ >> >> J. Nicholas Hoover >> >> Senior Editor >> >> InformationWeek >> >> 516-562-5032 >> >> nhoover at techweb.com >> >> Twitter: iweeknick >> >> >> --- >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> press mailing list >> press at opensourceforamerica.org >> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press >> > > -- > Kara Schiltz > Corporate Communications > Red Hat, Inc. > office: 919.301.3002 > cell: 919.924.8557 > > Looking to carve out IT costs? > www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ > > _______________________________________________ > press mailing list > press at opensourceforamerica.org > http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press From kschiltz at redhat.com Mon Oct 26 10:07:58 2009 From: kschiltz at redhat.com (Kara Schiltz) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:07:58 -0400 Subject: [press] Comment on White House moving to Drupal? In-Reply-To: <11249B8E-29A3-402E-AED0-FFEE6EB64BC1@sun.com> References: <4AE5B342.4090309@redhat.com> <11249B8E-29A3-402E-AED0-FFEE6EB64BC1@sun.com> Message-ID: <4AE5BB4E.3020306@redhat.com> Nick pulled a statement from Bill Vass off the OSA website that he liked. I also sent him the final statement that circulated around this weekend. Will let you know if he has additional follow-up questions but it sounded like he was all set. Thanks, Kara Terri Molini wrote: > I have formal statements for this effort. > > Terri Molini > Global Communications > Sun Microsystems > (P) (408) 404-4976 > terri.molini at sun.com > > On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Kara Schiltz wrote: > >> I'll grab this one. I'm following up with Nick now. >> >> Thanks, >> Kara >> >> Nick Hoover wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I'm wondering if OSA has any comment on the White House's move to >>> Drupal on the LAMP stack? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> _______________ >>> >>> J. Nicholas Hoover >>> >>> Senior Editor >>> >>> InformationWeek >>> >>> 516-562-5032 >>> >>> nhoover at techweb.com >>> >>> Twitter: iweeknick >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> press mailing list >>> press at opensourceforamerica.org >>> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press >>> >> >> -- >> Kara Schiltz >> Corporate Communications >> Red Hat, Inc. >> office: 919.301.3002 >> cell: 919.924.8557 >> >> Looking to carve out IT costs? >> www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> press mailing list >> press at opensourceforamerica.org >> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press -- Kara Schiltz Corporate Communications Red Hat, Inc. office: 919.301.3002 cell: 919.924.8557 Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ From noyes at conwaycorp.net Mon Oct 26 10:15:27 2009 From: noyes at conwaycorp.net (noyes at conwaycorp.net) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:27 -0500 Subject: [press] Journalist inquiry: White House adopts Drupal Message-ID: Hi, I'm a writer with LinuxInsider, and am working on a story today about the White House's adoption of Drupal for its government website. I've seen your announcement on your site, but was wondering if someone there could comment briefly for my story, either by email or phone? I'd love to hear your reaction and any thoughts about what it means, for the government, for citizens and for FOSS. My deadline is 3:00 pm Eastern time today. Hope to hear from you! Thanks so much, - Katherine Noyes Columnist and Reporter ECT News Network 501.513.1092 katherine.noyes at newsroom.ectnews.com www.ECTNEWS.com Read My Recent Stories: http://www.ectnews.com/perl/section/katherine_noyes/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Terri.Molini at Sun.COM Mon Oct 26 11:03:21 2009 From: Terri.Molini at Sun.COM (Terri Molini) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:03:21 -0500 Subject: [press] Comment on White House moving to Drupal? In-Reply-To: <4AE5BB4E.3020306@redhat.com> References: <4AE5B342.4090309@redhat.com> <11249B8E-29A3-402E-AED0-FFEE6EB64BC1@sun.com> <4AE5BB4E.3020306@redhat.com> Message-ID: <4AFCC5A3-6C5E-465C-B06B-89AEBB5E678F@sun.com> Perfect. Thx Terri Molini Global Communications Sun Microsystems (P) (408) 404-4976 terri.molini at sun.com On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Kara Schiltz wrote: > Nick pulled a statement from Bill Vass off the OSA website that he > liked. I also sent him the final statement that circulated around > this weekend. Will let you know if he has additional follow-up > questions but it sounded like he was all set. > > Thanks, > Kara > > Terri Molini wrote: >> I have formal statements for this effort. >> >> Terri Molini >> Global Communications >> Sun Microsystems >> (P) (408) 404-4976 >> terri.molini at sun.com >> >> On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Kara Schiltz >> wrote: >> >>> I'll grab this one. I'm following up with Nick now. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kara >>> >>> Nick Hoover wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if OSA has any comment on the White House's move to >>>> Drupal on the LAMP stack? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Nick >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________ >>>> >>>> J. Nicholas Hoover >>>> >>>> Senior Editor >>>> >>>> InformationWeek >>>> >>>> 516-562-5032 >>>> >>>> nhoover at techweb.com >>>> >>>> Twitter: iweeknick >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> --- >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> press mailing list >>>> press at opensourceforamerica.org >>>> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kara Schiltz >>> Corporate Communications >>> Red Hat, Inc. >>> office: 919.301.3002 >>> cell: 919.924.8557 >>> >>> Looking to carve out IT costs? >>> www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> press mailing list >>> press at opensourceforamerica.org >>> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press > > -- > Kara Schiltz > Corporate Communications > Red Hat, Inc. > office: 919.301.3002 > cell: 919.924.8557 > > Looking to carve out IT costs? > www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ > > _______________________________________________ > press mailing list > press at opensourceforamerica.org > http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/press From olafursigurvinsson at gmail.com Thu Oct 29 04:22:11 2009 From: olafursigurvinsson at gmail.com (Olafur Sigurvinsson) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:22:11 +0000 Subject: [press] Open Source for Iceland Message-ID: <7824B695-D630-4C7F-B134-1593159FEE7F@datacell.com> Hi, I run my software house here in Iceland and we develop ERP solutions for the Icelandic Market. Until now, Microsoft has been mostly used ERP vendor and we are about to change that. I have also pushed Open Source and we have just migrated the first public client to Open Source and I want to battle to have our government 100% running on Open Source. My battle seem to be returning some audience and Microsoft Iceland has closed down their business and moved to Denmark, only keeping 3-4 persons here. I was wondering if my project could get under your hat and I could get support from you guys in my battle here. Knowledge sharing etc. and maybe some backup when it comes to debates. If you would like to consider this I would be glad to continue this discussion. Sincerely Olaf V SIgruvinsson CEO Kerfis?r?un ?sland ehf. www.stolpi.is gsm: +354 -843 7777