On 06/04/2007, at 7:51 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the first task is to figure that out and construct a news article along these lines. For example, it has volume-management, self-healing, and the word "enterprise" can be tossed in easily.
Would it be worthwhile to form a "media coordinator" role? I can think of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and media liaison.
Announcement coordination would be provided as a service to our developers and the community. For example, before committing or MFC'ing some hot new feature, people can ask the media coordinator for assistance with the announcement. This might involve helping to draft the primary announcement, writing articles for submission to news sites, the sort of information described above by Robert. The work can be delegated, the key is simply to provide all the right information to the right people and channels when an announcement is made.
Media liaison is around providing a single point of contact for media requests, to make it easier for people unfamiliar with the project to find their way to the right people and resources. Maybe this extends to writing articles (or finding people to do so), and submitting them to journals or magazines.
I'm sure there are other areas of value. The two points above just spring to mind based on recent messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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