<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Brian Proffitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkp@redhat.com" target="_blank">bkp@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 08/12/2015 10:37 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:<br>
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> My main question is how do we make the project more influential by using<br>
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> Carl<br>
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My ideas on this are pretty straightforward: establish CentOS and its<br>
community as a "thought leader" in a given aspect of technology by using<br>
the social media channels to amplify that. Say the Board (or social<br>
media committee or whatever ends up happening) decides CentOS should be<br>
recognized as a leader in cloud-based servers*, because that's where the<br>
community's expertise lies.<br>
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In that scenario, when stories/blogs appear in the ether about<br>
cloud-based servers, members of the community could point to it on the<br>
CentOS social media channels and perhaps make a comment. Over time, the<br>
CentOS community will become recognized for this expertise, and people<br>
will seek out CentOS community members for advice/help in this area and<br>
CentOS the software becomes more attractive for the same reasons.<br>
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This should not be done as a firehose of aggregated content, and there<br>
should be original content on a CentOS blog/blog network to back this up.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>another idea: i would like to see links to github/bitbucket repos with CentOS based<br>runnable code tested automatically on one of the public CI systems instead of blogs.<br>In my opinion blogs make horrible things to open software:<br>provide usually incorrect or quickly obsolete information.<br>One does not become an expert by commenting on something.<br></div><div>CentOS community experts could contribute to make such testable projects better.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Marcin<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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That is the approach I find works best for influence. Other<br>
suggestions/comments welcome.<br>
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> On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:<br>
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>> A couple questions here:<br>
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>> 1. Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,<br>
>> KDE,etc to review/compare against?<br>
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</span><span class="">>> 2. Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in<br>
>> participating?<br>
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*As just one example of I am sure of many.<br>
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Peace,<br>
Brian<br>
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