EclipseCon OSS Pavillion

[Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>]

(http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?type=pavillion)

Meant to bring this up a few weeks ago, but still always chasing that
moment when I can sit back and have nothing to do. Spent this weekend
moving into the new apartment, well starting too get moved in anyway,
so that evening of relaxation is still too far away.

Anyway, about 5 weeks ago I got a phone call from one of the
organizers of EclipseCon asking if I knew of anyone at Apache who'd be
interested in exhibiting at an open-source pavillion at EclipseCon -
because he needed to sign someone up by the next day and there hadn't
been a volunteer from his email the previous month to the PRC. It
sounded interesting and I doubted I had a hope of finding anyone else
that quickly - so I figured "why not?".

I'm aiming to loop the following mini-presentation
(http://people.apache.org/~bayard/Commons-Exhibit.pdf) , and then just
talk to anyone who is interested in what we do.

Any thoughts? I still need to improve it - work the graph in better
and more about the community with mentions of the ASF people
presenting about the ASF at EclipseCon.

Hen

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Re: EclipseCon OSS Pavillion

[Rahul Akolkar <ra...@gmail.com>]

On 3/21/06, Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Rahul Akolkar <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip/>
>
> > If its not too late, maybe you can change the SCXML description to:
> >
<snap/>
>
> Will give it a try. Had someone who was interested in that and said
> he'd take a look into it when he got back to work.
>
<snip/>

Sounds good. I'll be here ;-)

-Rahul

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Re: EclipseCon OSS Pavillion

[Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com>]

On 3/20/06, Rahul Akolkar <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?type=pavillion)
> >
> <snip/>
> >
> > I'm aiming to loop the following mini-presentation
> > (http://people.apache.org/~bayard/Commons-Exhibit.pdf) , and then just
> > talk to anyone who is interested in what we do.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> <snap/>
>
> Cool, have fun.
>
> What are trying to give out to the audience with the Commons
> interdependencies graph in this presentation?

That's the rub isn't it. We're not product focused - so myself and a
few other open source people are standing in a room with sales teams.
And in sales terms - we're not selling the code, we're selling the
community.

So I'm talking to people, asking how they're using Commons already,
letting them know the releases we have in the pipeline, and other
specific stuff to the components they used. With the aim being to
invite them to join the user list for problems, to join dev if they
have ideas or requests, and to emphasize that commons is an easy way
to get into open source development - most of our stuff isn't
technically hard and there are lots of people to help you.

> If its not too late, maybe you can change the SCXML description to:
>
> "Implementation of the State Chart XML W3C Working Draft, which is a
> general-purpose event-based state machine language that also ties the
> UML behavior modeling layer to various runtimes and modalities."
>
> modality (in this context) = { speech, web, desktop, multimodal } apps

Will give it a try. Had someone who was interested in that and said
he'd take a look into it when he got back to work.

> I guess the one line description could still be better, but I
> definitely need to nuke the existing one off of the website (I have
> only myself to blame for that ;-)

Yeah, I'll put up a change for the front page - we have a lot of
passive language on the front page and half the content can go by
simplifying the description of each component.

> P.S.-Interesting that the dev list sees roughly four times more
> traffic and has half the subscribers as the user list.

Is isn't it :)

Hen

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Re: EclipseCon OSS Pavillion

[Rahul Akolkar <ra...@gmail.com>]

On 3/20/06, Henri Yandell <fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/Sub.do?type=pavillion)
>
<snip/>
>
> I'm aiming to loop the following mini-presentation
> (http://people.apache.org/~bayard/Commons-Exhibit.pdf) , and then just
> talk to anyone who is interested in what we do.
>
> Any thoughts?
<snap/>

Cool, have fun.

What are trying to give out to the audience with the Commons
interdependencies graph in this presentation?

If its not too late, maybe you can change the SCXML description to:

"Implementation of the State Chart XML W3C Working Draft, which is a
general-purpose event-based state machine language that also ties the
UML behavior modeling layer to various runtimes and modalities."

modality (in this context) = { speech, web, desktop, multimodal } apps

I guess the one line description could still be better, but I
definitely need to nuke the existing one off of the website (I have
only myself to blame for that ;-)

-Rahul

P.S.-Interesting that the dev list sees roughly four times more
traffic and has half the subscribers as the user list.


> I still need to improve it - work the graph in better
> and more about the community with mentions of the ASF people
> presenting about the ASF at EclipseCon.
>
> Hen
>

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