Hi Mark, I've couple of ideas on content marketing;
1. Aggressive approach: Grab bunch of hallway sysadmins (random sysadmins or devops people) who have never heard of OpenStack or CloudStack or others, and give them instructions on setting them up against a preconfigured basic infra setup. Time them, capture on camera and compare results. Share this result, write papers/blogs on it and use it to market why it creates the cloud that would just work. 2. Defensive approach: create an appliance based on DevCloud where uses install CloudStack (or get it installed) and have them play with it to use it as a demo. Use DevCloud to market ACS as cloud that works. 3. Infographics: create infographics on know data points (downloads, production usage, community activities etc.) to showcase why it just works. Regards. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Mark Hinkle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Today I was speaking with some of our folks at Citrix on how we position > Apache CloudStack. As we talk about our products we also try to paint ACS > as a strong foundation for building a cloud in a variety of ways but in the > interest of being succinct and consistent across our project I think it > would be good to have our standard battle cry or descriptor to help > reinforce why you should be considering ACS and help all the supporters of > the project reinforce our value. We have gravitated towards: > > Apache CloudStack: The Cloud that Just Works > > Based on the fact that you can get it up and running quickly and become > productive in a very short time. Does anyone have other ways they describe > ACS? What do you think about the proposed message. > > > Regards, Mark > > >
