[Marketing] notes from the kickoff meeting

[Leslie Hawthorn]

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
>
>
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