[IDEAS] TomEE Release

[Karan Malhi <ka...@gmail.com>]

First of all, congratulations to all of you for having put in so much
effort behind this great release!. Now, we just need to have a great
finish this week.
Here are some of the things we can do towards having a fantastic release:
1. Release soon. JavaOne is next week, and we defintely want to
release TomEE ASAP. David blevins will be talking at JavaOne and its a
great opportunity to atleast let the folks know about TomEE. Timing
wise , this is a superb opportunity for releasing a shiny brand new
TomEE.
2. Website: Replace the current home page of OpenEJB with something
like this: http://people.apache.org/~kmalhi/ . This is just temporary
and we will get back to our home page after a few days. Keep it
simple, focussed, and encourage folks to download and install. No
distractions, no gimmicks, a to the point message and then download.
Remove all barriers to download and use (which is usually too much
information on a page). The font, colors etc on the mockup page are
ugly and i do not have the artistic ability to provide something
fancy, but simple, bright colors would be cool . Feel free to suggest,
changes to content in the mockup, I just made it up quickly as i
created the mockup, could put more thought into it and definitely more
ideas are welcome. Personally, would prefer if our generous artist
could give us this one fantastic page on TomEE, I would like to
prioritise this over our website template.
3. Twitter account for TomEE: Not sure if we already have one, if not,
we need one. Tweet and retweet as often and as much as possible. Also
add the HashTag #JavaOne in it, this way it appears here:-
http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html. Oh and if we could have a
twitter section on the TomEE page , that would be awesome
4. Be ready to answer questions on the users mailing list. This is
probably the best possibly way to let users know, we are active, we
care and are available for the longer run.
5. If you bump into something which is blatantly wrong in the TomEE
docs, just change it. Fix as you go.

There are other ideas too, but practically speaking, if we get the
above done, that would be cool!.
-- 

Karan Singh Malhi
twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi

Re: [IDEAS] TomEE Release

[Romain Manni-Bucau <rm...@gmail.com>]

For 2 it could be a kind of "download day" page.

- Romain

Le 1 oct. 2011 23:03, "Karan Malhi" <ka...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> First of all, congratulations to all of you for having put in so much
> effort behind this great release!. Now, we just need to have a great
> finish this week.
> Here are some of the things we can do towards having a fantastic release:
> 1. Release soon. JavaOne is next week, and we defintely want to
> release TomEE ASAP. David blevins will be talking at JavaOne and its a
> great opportunity to atleast let the folks know about TomEE. Timing
> wise , this is a superb opportunity for releasing a shiny brand new
> TomEE.
> 2. Website: Replace the current home page of OpenEJB with something
> like this: http://people.apache.org/~kmalhi/ . This is just temporary
> and we will get back to our home page after a few days. Keep it
> simple, focussed, and encourage folks to download and install. No
> distractions, no gimmicks, a to the point message and then download.
> Remove all barriers to download and use (which is usually too much
> information on a page). The font, colors etc on the mockup page are
> ugly and i do not have the artistic ability to provide something
> fancy, but simple, bright colors would be cool . Feel free to suggest,
> changes to content in the mockup, I just made it up quickly as i
> created the mockup, could put more thought into it and definitely more
> ideas are welcome. Personally, would prefer if our generous artist
> could give us this one fantastic page on TomEE, I would like to
> prioritise this over our website template.
> 3. Twitter account for TomEE: Not sure if we already have one, if not,
> we need one. Tweet and retweet as often and as much as possible. Also
> add the HashTag #JavaOne in it, this way it appears here:-
> http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html. Oh and if we could have a
> twitter section on the TomEE page , that would be awesome
> 4. Be ready to answer questions on the users mailing list. This is
> probably the best possibly way to let users know, we are active, we
> care and are available for the longer run.
> 5. If you bump into something which is blatantly wrong in the TomEE
> docs, just change it. Fix as you go.
>
> There are other ideas too, but practically speaking, if we get the
> above done, that would be cool!.
> --
>
> Karan Singh Malhi
> twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi

Re: [IDEAS] TomEE Release

[David Blevins <da...@gmail.com>]

FYI, the twitter account is here http://twitter.com/#!/ApacheTomEE

On Oct 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Karan Malhi wrote:

> First of all, congratulations to all of you for having put in so much
> effort behind this great release!. Now, we just need to have a great
> finish this week.
> Here are some of the things we can do towards having a fantastic release:
> 1. Release soon. JavaOne is next week, and we defintely want to
> release TomEE ASAP. David blevins will be talking at JavaOne and its a
> great opportunity to atleast let the folks know about TomEE. Timing
> wise , this is a superb opportunity for releasing a shiny brand new
> TomEE.
> 2. Website: Replace the current home page of OpenEJB with something
> like this: http://people.apache.org/~kmalhi/ . This is just temporary
> and we will get back to our home page after a few days. Keep it
> simple, focussed, and encourage folks to download and install. No
> distractions, no gimmicks, a to the point message and then download.
> Remove all barriers to download and use (which is usually too much
> information on a page). The font, colors etc on the mockup page are
> ugly and i do not have the artistic ability to provide something
> fancy, but simple, bright colors would be cool . Feel free to suggest,
> changes to content in the mockup, I just made it up quickly as i
> created the mockup, could put more thought into it and definitely more
> ideas are welcome. Personally, would prefer if our generous artist
> could give us this one fantastic page on TomEE, I would like to
> prioritise this over our website template.
> 3. Twitter account for TomEE: Not sure if we already have one, if not,
> we need one. Tweet and retweet as often and as much as possible. Also
> add the HashTag #JavaOne in it, this way it appears here:-
> http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html. Oh and if we could have a
> twitter section on the TomEE page , that would be awesome
> 4. Be ready to answer questions on the users mailing list. This is
> probably the best possibly way to let users know, we are active, we
> care and are available for the longer run.
> 5. If you bump into something which is blatantly wrong in the TomEE
> docs, just change it. Fix as you go.
> 
> There are other ideas too, but practically speaking, if we get the
> above done, that would be cool!.
> -- 
> 
> Karan Singh Malhi
> twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi