Community Architecture ideas

Random ideas that we don't want to forget

MCHEN'S THREE BIG THINGS

• global
• strategic
• business focus
  • infrastructure/os
  • middleware
  • applications

REMEMBER THE GOAL

• it's the developers, stupid
• contribution and creation of value (developed countries)
• brand awareness and saturation (developing countries)

IDEAS

• Open Source Leadership
• ISVs in EPEL
• Bring value to end user
• Reward the true open source partners
• CommunityArchitecture/Ecosystem

STUFF THAT AN APAC COMMUNITY ARCHITECT COULD DO

• japan intelligence
• china intelligence
• apac university tour (interns/contributors)
• local events
• knowing which ones matter
• creating them if necessary
• apac ambassador summit -- lca 2009??

BIG SHOWS IN APAC

• india -- foss.in, linux asia
• japan -- ? (warren, harish)
• china -- linux foundation event (eugene?)
• apac -- AOSSS (funded by japanese government)
• singapore -- singapore linux conf (99,00,01,03, now dead)

METRICS

• who is participating, project by project?
• how do we drive those numbers?
• what does it mean to participate?
• patches from outside, bugzilla/trac usage?

TIEMANN

• development -> test -> production.
• make d -> t faster, better.
• make p have fewer problems, supportable and scalable.
• community consulting in d, t drives value and makes revenue in p acceptable.
• otherwise, p is a commodity and we lose.
• leverage open source in non-differentiating areas.

OTHER

• podcasts/tv/etc in local languages
• localized spins at every show
• publications (again localized)
• ambassadors newsletter
• local language portals for ambassadors
• ambassador business cards

SALES STUFF

• revenue vs. bookings
• gross margin
• single year bookings
• gross margins -- software vs. services

RANDOM WISDOM

• knock down barriers
• infrastructure of participation
• weekend projects
• sustainability of models