Hi folks, Yesterday we had our second ever Hangout to discuss building and growing the Aeolus community, and how to better share news about our project. A number of people attended; thanks!
I wrote a blog post[1] so that this will appear on the Aeolus Project blog[2], but I'm going to duplicate the meeting recap section below so we can discuss it more extensively here. The video from the call is here (39 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LC58nFzYAc&feature=g-upl Here's a summary of what was discussed, though: * Mo Morsi gave a preview of his upcoming talks on Aeolus. He put the slides on the Aeolus Presentations wiki page[3]. * We should have a release calendar on our site, and also make sure to make noise (on our blog, and on Twitter/Facebook/etc.) about our releases. * It would be valuable to look at integrating with CloudStack and documenting how to use it. Google Compute / Google Cloud Platform, too! * Our templates site is a really good idea that needs to be finished up and launched. The template repo[4] Justin set up is a good interim solution. * It would be interesting to look at integrating with other sources of templates, like Bitnami or CloudFormation. * In general, we really need to support more providers, and finally arrive at a complete API. * Justin has been working on getting OpenShift Origin running on Aeolus. This would be an excellent blog post, and maybe a good marketing angle. * Sponsoring "drinkups" seems to work well for attracting interest, though it's not clear if there's actually a good return on it. * Someone suggested cotton candy at booths. I love that idea. Cotton candy kind of looks like a cloud, too! * Stickers and flyers are a must. We need to get a ton ordered. * We should do more with social media. We have a Facebook page[5] and a Google Plus page[6], and we're @aeolusproject on Twitter, and we have a blog[7]. But we don't make extensive use of them. What we really need are others to blog about us, retweet us, and share our stuff on Facebook. * We need to get people to take these tasks and commit to making them happen, and we should be in good shape for the next meeting! That's all I took for notes. Please feel to chip in with things I missed, or follow up with new ideas and ideas. Best regards, Matt Wagner [1] http://ma.ttwagner.com/aeolus-community-building-meetup-2/ [2] http://blog.aeolusproject.org/ [3] https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/projects/aeolus/wiki/Presentations [4] https://github.com/aeolus-incubator/templates [5] https://www.facebook.com/AeolusProject [6] https://plus.google.com/109718770418645820147/posts [7] http://blog.aeolusproject.org/
