From tconrey at redhat.com Mon Apr 1 23:14:04 2013 From: tconrey at redhat.com (Theron Conrey) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Marketing] Kickoff Marketing Meeting Message-ID: <1546950042.262513.1364858044106.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Hey Everybody! So we'd like to kick off our marketing working group this thursday at 11AM (PST) In order to see how these work I'd like to try using google hangouts initially to get started. If you're able to attend please email me direct and I'll make sure to send an invite just prior to the meeting start time. I look forward to seeing you. Agenda: oVirt Workshop Planning - Shanghai open Virt / Cloud event planning kickoff Thanks! -Theron Conrey Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat @theronconrey From tconrey at redhat.com Mon Apr 8 15:34:31 2013 From: tconrey at redhat.com (Theron Conrey) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Marketing] notes from the kickoff meeting In-Reply-To: <35733385.841798.1365435023066.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1937252646.842958.1365435271430.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Intel Shanghai Workshop: We still could use some help in promoting this event. - Blog posts - Twitter and other social media buzz generation - send out invitations to virt folks in your companies, and other contacts in Shanghai Actions: - Kyle Mestery will publicize within Cisco to try and drive some interest from Cisco folks in China to attend - Jon Benedict will make some internal noise and outreach on Twitter - Kyle Mestery can throw up a post on the Open at Cisco blog - Theron to provide bit.ly links for tracking Workshop interest via twitter: for direct registration use: http://bit.ly/12gfzY2 for workshop oVirt page use: http://bit.ly/Z2qT3i - LH will forward template paragraph to working group for use in their writing Current promo includes: - Intel has issued invitations to previous attendees of Beijing workshop and to their Shanghai employees. - Intel has created a news article on the workshop that went out this week Open Cloud Event coinciding with VMWorld: Event co-located with VMunderground (segue into VMunderground on Sunday night in same venue - http://www.vmunderground.com/) - Focus on oVirt, OpenStack, CloudStack, SDN, KVM, and all things cloudy - Need additional sponsorship to hold this event - Want to highlight HW aspect, as well - Cloud event will segue into VMunderground, opportunities for sponsors, etc. to give talks in the evening during VMunderground - Approaching folks active in OpenStack space in Bay Area - Colin McNamara is on board to give a talk at the event, Sean Roberts from Yahoo! may be interested as well - Targeting 60K in budget for sponsorship - 6 additional sponsors at 10K each for the rest of the event - Give top billing sponsorship to oVirt board companies - NetApp: Jon Benedict would need to get funding from standards group at NetApp working with Freya - Cisco: Need a sponsor prospectus to shop this event. Management dates, venue, greater level of sponsorship for board companies, projects targeting for exhibition, etc., guaranteed lectures spots for board companies, space to demo hardware, meals, breaks, etc. - prospectus for sponsor companies to be reviewed by this group asap. will be sent direct. Marketing working group meeting comments: google hangout seems to work, for comments concerns email theron at redhat.com From lhawthor at redhat.com Mon Apr 8 16:34:21 2013 From: lhawthor at redhat.com (Leslie Hawthorn) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:34:21 -0700 Subject: [Marketing] notes from the kickoff meeting In-Reply-To: <1937252646.842958.1365435271430.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> References: <1937252646.842958.1365435271430.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> Message-ID: <5162F18D.1090706@redhat.com> Thanks, Theron. As promised, here is a template paragraph to use for promoting the workshop, along with two sample tweets in case they are useful: The oVirt Community and Intel are looking forward to welcoming you the the oVirt WorkShop in Shanghai on May 8th and 9th at Intel's Shanghai Campus. oVirt is the first truly open and comprehensive data center virtualization management suite. oVirt can be used to help with deployments as well as manages virtual machines, the hosts, virtual networking, and storage. With tight integration with GlusterFS, oVirt can also be deployed to support and manage Gluster environments. As the oVirt community is rapidly evolving and growing, one of the ways we look to connect is through oVirt Workshops around the globe. This workshop is designed to encourage collaboration in our community, both with our developers and users, as well as help answer questions about our integration with other projects. More information can be found here:http://www.ovirt.org/Intel_Workshop_May_2013 and you can register for the event here:http://ovirtshanghai2013.eventbrite.com We look forward to seeing you there! Tweets that can be used: Interested in open virtualization? Register now for the #oVirt Workshop in Shanghai: May 8-9http://bit.ly/12gfzY2 Virtualization without constraints. Check us our at the #oVirt Workshop in Shanghai: May 8-9http://bit.ly/Z2qT3i Cheers, LH On 04/08/2013 08:34 AM, Theron Conrey wrote: > Intel Shanghai Workshop: > We still could use some help in promoting this event. > - Blog posts > - Twitter and other social media buzz generation > - send out invitations to virt folks in your companies, and other > contacts in Shanghai > > Actions: > - Kyle Mestery will publicize within Cisco to try and drive some interest from Cisco folks in > China to attend > - Jon Benedict will make some internal noise and outreach on Twitter > - Kyle Mestery can throw up a post on the Open at Cisco blog > - Theron to provide bit.ly links for tracking Workshop interest via twitter: > > for direct registration use: http://bit.ly/12gfzY2 > for workshop oVirt page use: http://bit.ly/Z2qT3i > > - LH will forward template paragraph to working group for use in their > writing > > Current promo includes: > - Intel has issued invitations to previous attendees of Beijing workshop > and to their Shanghai employees. > - Intel has created a news article on the workshop that went out this week > > > > Open Cloud Event coinciding with VMWorld: > > Event co-located with VMunderground (segue into VMunderground on Sunday > night in same venue - http://www.vmunderground.com/) > > - Focus on oVirt, OpenStack, CloudStack, SDN, KVM, and all things cloudy > - Need additional sponsorship to hold this event > - Want to highlight HW aspect, as well > - Cloud event will segue into VMunderground, opportunities for sponsors, > etc. to give talks in the evening during VMunderground > - Approaching folks active in OpenStack space in Bay Area - Colin > McNamara is on board to give a talk at the event, Sean Roberts from > Yahoo! may be interested as well > - Targeting 60K in budget for sponsorship - 6 additional sponsors at 10K > each for the rest of the event > - Give top billing sponsorship to oVirt board companies > - NetApp: Jon Benedict would need to get funding from standards group at > NetApp working with Freya > - Cisco: Need a sponsor prospectus to shop this event. Management dates, > venue, greater level of sponsorship for board companies, projects > targeting for exhibition, etc., guaranteed lectures spots for board > companies, space to demo hardware, meals, breaks, etc. > - prospectus for sponsor companies to be reviewed by this group asap. will be sent direct. > > Marketing working group meeting comments: > > google hangout seems to work, for comments concerns email theron at redhat.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > Marketing at ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn From lhawthor at redhat.com Fri Apr 12 02:07:57 2013 From: lhawthor at redhat.com (Leslie Hawthorn) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:07:57 -0700 Subject: [Marketing] Notes from Call: oVirt Workshop at Intel Shanghai Message-ID: <51676C7D.3030908@redhat.com> Attendees - Intel: Susie Li, Robert Chen; Red Hat: Leslie Hawthorn, Theron Conrey Registrations: - Currently at 55 attendees. - Target for at least 100, as the venue can hold 200. - Approximately half are from Intel. Promoting the Event: - Susie has sent a note to her team at Intel encouraging them to register. - OVA will be promoting in their newsletter coming out at start of May. - Cisco and NetApp have also helped to promote on their Cisco Open Blog and via Twitter. - Red Hat's sales engineering team is reaching out to customers. - Theron would like help issuing invitations to the Shanghai users group. Would like translation of his English invitation and reply back to the thread in the Shanghai LUG list. Theron will send link to Robert who will help with this task. -- Robert will look for an existing list member who can post to the list and follow up conversations. - Any other user groups in the area that we can reach out to? -- 2 universities within 10 minutes drive from campus. Reach out to higher education team at Intel to invite students to the event. - Promotional article is still in process. -- Small article was published with several technologies: http://os.51cto.com/art/201304/388704.htm -- Another article will be published with a deep dive on oVirt technologies. Schedule: - Schedule has been posted at http://wiki.ovirt.org/Intel_Workshop_May_2013 - First day is more user/operator focused - Second day is developer focused with a hands on lab in the second room -- Can move the Hands on Lab to the training room if it is not booked, otherwise have some tables in the Self paced labs room. (May 9th only) Parking: - Waiting on reply from Ops manager. Very few parking spaces available, so cannot park in employee lot. People can find parking on the street. Ops manager will provide a more formal response. - Intel will send out a reminder email to the attendees to give them logistics information about parking, map to the facility and access to campus. Attendee Gifts: - Black tee shirts with the oVirt logo. Red Hat will provide. - LH will see if more budget is available for notebooks and pens. - Theron will reach out to the marketing working group to see if they can provide notebooks and pens for the attendees. Shuttle Payment: - LH will see if this cost can be paid by Red Hat China. -- Susie will send over vendor information to LH to share with the Red Hat China team. Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn From tconrey at redhat.com Fri Apr 12 15:40:23 2013 From: tconrey at redhat.com (Theron Conrey) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Marketing] Shanghai workshop Message-ID: <892659341.3076597.1365781223338.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> As we're getting close to this event one of the recommendations made was that we provide small notebooks and pens to each of the attendees. I'm looking to see if one of the oVirt board companies would be able to sponsor these items for this workshop. Thank you in advance. -Theron Conrey