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?)