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My two cents - this is important enough of an issue that we need to lay out a messaging plan more formally.

Two key tenets to this:

-          Simplicity - I still do not believe we have clearly articulated what the problem is, clearly conveyed the two solutions simply (in a minimum amount of words / text), and how those solve the previous stated problem.

-          Execution - Once we have the simple message, we need to lay out a plan to go to where the community is (devs and users) to educate - IRC, web, meetup presentations, webinar, social media, simple collateral, etc

I'd add that this was at lunch, and there were booth events happening driving traffic there, so the turnout was impacted by that.

Perhaps the Foundation marketing team can drive some help here with plan and execution - I am willing to help as needed.

Joseph B George
Sr Director, Cloud and Big Data Solutions

From: Van Lindberg [mailto:van.lindberg at RACKSPACE.COM]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 4:39 AM
To: Todd Moore; Tristan Goode
Cc: foundation-board at lists.openstack.org; elections-committee at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] [Elections-committee] Thank you and Actions


In terms of reaching more people, on Monday I published a blog post on the Rackspace blog talking about the issue - <http://<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-openstack-board>www.rackspace.com<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-openstack-board>/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-openstack-board>openstack<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-openstack-board>-board<http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-change-the-way-we-elect-the-openstack-board>/>. This is the first of some "position papers" we will be publishing to explain our views on various governance issues.

Van

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Subject: Re: [Foundation Board] [Elections-committee] Thank you and Actions

Sorry we were boring.  :-)  I think I recognized at least 8 people that had provided commentary previously.  The audience dropped in number as the curious moved on (as we "bored" them).  My observation was after sorting through and subtracting foundation board members, and staff at the end of the session and asking others opinions on who the attendees were.  If you have a more accurate number please update us.

Net:  we certainly did not wow the audience, or attract many people.  So, how are we going to reach more folks?  I think that is what is most important.


Todd M. Moore

Director, Interoperability and Partnerships

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[cid:image001.gif at 01CEDC3F.916A0D60]Tristan Goode ---11/08/2013 12:59:31 AM---I can't agree with this observation "The audience was mostly composed of the individuals that have b

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I can't agree with this observation "The audience was mostly composed of the individuals that have been commenting on the mailing lists". There were a few mailing list people there that I saw, the crowd seemed to be mostly curious or bored onlookers.
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On 8 Nov 2013, at 3:40 am, Todd Moore <tmmoore at us.ibm.com<mailto:tmmoore at us.ibm.com>> wrote:
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