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Excerpts from Maish Saidel-Keesing's message of 2015-05-06 17:11:23 +0300:
> On 05/06/15 16:13, Anne Gentle wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the interest of communicating sooner rather than later, I wanted to 
> > write a new thread to say that Flavio Percoco and I are going to work 
> > on a TC communications plan as co-chairs of a TC communications 
> > working group.
> >
> > I think we can find a happy medium amongst meeting minutes, gerrit 
> > reviews, and irregular blog entries by applying some comms planning, 
> > so that Flavio and I can dive in.
> >
> > Please answer these questions on the list if you're interested in 
> > shaping the communications plan:
> >
> > Audience considerations:
> > Is the primary audience current OpenStack contributors or those in 
> > consumer roles?
> I would think Consumer Roles, most contributors are already in the know 
> and on the mailing lists and meetings.

I think you're overestimating the number of contributors who actually
manage to keep up with all of the traffic on this list.

We should address both audiences.

> > What percentage of the audience are fairly new contributors? Fairly 
> > new to OpenStack itself?
> > Is the audience more likely to be an "outsider looking in" to 
> > OpenStack governance?
> I would think so. The 'insider' already knows where and how to find the 
> information.
> > Is the audience wanting to click links to learn more, or do they just 
> > want the summary?
> Both would be great. There will be those who only want a summary, but 
> sometimes would also like a bit more detail on a specific subject
> > Does the audience always want an action to take, or is simply getting 
> > information their goal?
> I would leave that up to the audience. But if this is a communication 
> channel - we should decide if it should be one-way or both ways.
> >
> > Channel considerations:
> > Is this audience with their goals more likely to use blogs, RSS, and 
> > Twitter or subscribe to mailing lists?
> If we are talking about the non-contributor - a definite no to mailing 
> and a huge yes to the first part of the list.
> > Depending on the channels chosen, is cross-posting to multiple 
> > channels a huge error, or are we leaning towards a wide net rather 
> > than laser targeting?
> Cross posting should be fine since it will mostly be a link pointing to 
> the main source of content - which will be a blog post of some sorts.
> > Is there another channel we haven't considered that is widely consumed?
> FaceBook? But I personally don't go near it.
> > Does the cadence have to be weekly, even if "not much happened with 
> > the TC" is the activity rate for the week?
> I do no think it has to be weekly, because perhaps that would become 
> quite boring - if nothing really happened. I would say it should 
> according to the need - but a minimum of once a month (even if there was 
> nothing exciting).
> >
> > Thanks all for participating and giving input.
> >
> > Anne and Flavio
> >
> >
> >
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