User:Quaid/Plan for FLOSS ISV Ecosystem in 2009

February to May 2009 plan

Goal

• Be recognized by ISVs as the best and friendliest place to bring their software for packaging
  • ... because we are upstream of RHEL et al and
  • ... our processes produce the best supportable open source products
  • ... enabling ISVs to gain large success with lower investments by working as far upstream as possible.

Community org

• Regular schedule and important detail notices (underway)
  • AKA "ISV SIG Weekly Dispatch"
• Organize regular meeetings (end of Feb.)
• Recruit ISVs
  • Feb: SCaLE
  • Mar: CUE, SD West, MySQL Conf
  • Apr: LFNW
  • May/June OSCON
• ISV SIG mini-summits
  • SCaLE 7x (?)
  • LinuxFest Northwest (Apr)
  • OSCON (July)
  • RH Summit/JBoss World (Sep)

Growth strategies

• "Why care?" collateral for different ISV audiences, get in front of internal audiences, iterate/generate new from feedback -- March
  • General SIG details and wide-audience "Why?" (done)
• Work with ISVs to get Features (March 3) or packages (4 April) in for Fedora 11 (Mar, Apr)
• Structure for success.
  • Mailing list (done)
  • Task list (needed)
  • "Why" content (needs expansion)
  • Regular meetings (needed)
  • Group event (needed)
    • I.e. virtual summit, mini-summit(s)
  • Group schedule (or not?)