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Subject: Re: ACS - Better Marketing - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
From: Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:13:14 +0100
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To: "Musayev, Ilya" <imusayev@webmd.net>


On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:47 PM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusayev@webmd.net> wrote:

> To be completely honest, CloudStack is an awesome product, with one =
major flow - it's a "best kept secret" not too many know about. The last =
thing we want to see is for CS to become like BSD (awesome and stable) =
but barely used.
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> I'm not  Citrix employee, I will speak freely - so pardon my honesty.
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> We lose the market to a peer pressure phenomenon known as OpenStack, =
I'm not saying OS is bad by any means, but realistically, many companies =
go for OS - because thats what everyone talks about, they don't use the =
approach of what is right for my environment, instead they go for the =
buzzword. Not many can actually get OS to work - in true open source way =
- and end up paying for various companies to make it work for them and =
maintain as well. We need to get the word out there for CS - we can do =
better.
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> For the most part, (my strong opinion based on where I worked in past) =
I can say that in most use cases for small, mid and large size =
companies, CS is a better fit.
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> Bad marketing, works against everyone's interest. Anything from future =
job opportunity - to actually working with a product that is simply =
great, stable and feature rich.
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> Here is how I propose we fix this:
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> For each of the bullet points below - we assign leads that work with =
contributors.
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> 1)      Create an ACS social media marketing team - We NEED social =
media attention
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> a.       Gather list of ideas
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> b.      Meet regularly on IRC to follow up on progress and discuss =
what can be done better
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> c.       Pick the best voted ideas
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> d.      Assign the duties and roles
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> e.      Conquer - one at a time
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> f.        Create Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube Channels or =
use existing means and other social media
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This is great, I just want to point out that we have talked about a few =
of these items already:

They already exist (from prior Apache move) and we talked about it:
http://markmail.org/thread/p3awdls6khvvtyzk

All videos from CCC have been posted at:
http://www.youtube.com/diycloudcomputing


> g.       Blog with SEO in mind
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> 2)      Show the world how you can get ACS to work in your environment =
on youtube and other video sites
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> a.       Create a set of step by step tutorial (video preferred)
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>                                                               i.      =
Basic ACS POC setup
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>                                                             ii.      =
Setting up ACS  in corporate environment with strict compliance
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>                                                            iii.      =
Hosting environment
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>                                                           iv.      =
Development Environment - educate new developers on how to troubleshoot =
issues and how to address them - actual basic examples would be really =
good on how bug X was fixed
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I have asked for screencast/demo at:
http://markmail.org/thread/j4dv4wt2xkhqv73v

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> b.      Take it a step further and show how you can bolt on CS with =
other offerings - again video preferred but text will do
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>                                                               i.      =
Show how to bolt on OpenSwift for block storage, OpenShift (linux PaaS) =
and IronFoundry (windows PaaS),  Chef and SpaceWalk and others
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> 3)      Create support groups based on area of expertise, for example =
I can help with VmWare and CS setups, but I'm not good with XEN or KVM =
at the moment
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> a.       We need support groups for different hypervisors, storage and =
networks that can help newcomers
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> b.      Each issue resolved must be documented preferable on wiki  - =
any  documentation (including copy and paste from mailing list) is =
better than none
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> 4)      Host local user group meet ups

Personnally, I attend and speak at JUG in France/Geneva region. I was =
just at the Grenoble JUG last week and I am heading to Edinburgh JUG in =
March 27.

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> a.       Show CS and help others
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This is what we try to do with buildacloud.org (former cloudstack.org):
http://buildacloud.org/blog/202-bacd-ghent-summary-and-slides.html

My question to all the CloudStack users reading this is how can we get =
all of you to speak out about your deployments.
Write a blog describing your use case, how you use CloudStack and why =
you love it ?

Not to pick on you Ilya, but If I google for "cloudstack webmd" it only =
returns links to the mailing list. So what prevents you from writing =
about how you use CloudStack ? What can we do as a community to get you =
to write about CloudStack ?


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> 5)      Reach out to other open source (and not) players and work with =
them to have easy integration and cross functionality
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> a.       RedHat with OpenShift PaaS

As an example, see my podcast with redhat during FOSDEM where I reach =
out to delta cloud:
http://cloudevangelist.org


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> b.      IronFondry
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> c.       Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare, etc...
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> d.      Become part of major distributions

There was also a thread on this:
http://markmail.org/thread/3nm2g7elvoxek7ga

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> e.      Others will join as soon as they see the momentum
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Momentum is building, at least in France it's picking up nicely:
http://ies.ikoula.com/cloud-prive


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> *         Next Steps to make this happen:
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> o   Gather list of people willing to contribute their time with skills =
and desired areas of involvement, even if you are a new comer or don't =
have enough experience with CS, we can use your help!
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> o   Set the time for regular IRC meeting
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> o   Help lead this effort as well as participate
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> Together we can make ACS better for everyone and we can beat the =
buzzword players - because we are truly better.
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> Your input is welcome, if you want to reach out to me off the list, =
please feel free, I'm on irc.freenode.net nick "serverchief", or email =
me directly.
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> Thanks
> ilya

The bottom line to me is very simple:
We need everyone on this list to write a blog about how they use =
cloudstack or develop on cloudstack:
http://sebgoa.blogspot.com

Then we need to tweet the hell out of it :)

Easy  :)