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10:30-11:05 Giles Sirett: the challenges we face in terms of awareness &
market perception 11:05 – 11:40
Mark Hinkle: opportunities for better promoting Apache CloudStack to improve awareness and to reduce friction due to lack of brand awareness
11:40 – 12:15 Aaron Delp & Ken Hui: ways to get started in Social Media including
Twitter, Blogging, Podcasting, and Video Creation (The Social Media Pyramid) as tools for both personal and community involvement
Our own “mini – track”
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CEO of ShapeBlue Been working with ACS since late 2011 PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack Chairman – European CloudStack user group Declaration: I’m a business guy
Also: Physicist, ex-programmer, husband, runner, Dad, rugby coach
About Me
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My Qualifications for this subject
WeaknessesBeing focused on a single technology as an expert can be a good differentiator, but also means the target market is considerably smaller.
ThreatsMuch of the company's success depends on CloudStack's success. If OpenStack takes off as much as its participants hope, will CloudStack be less relevant?
451 Research, Feb 2014
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“CloudStack – Never heard of it!”Architect at unnamed company that now runs a 200 host production ACS environment
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So we have a perception problem then
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The good news first
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Apache CloudStack
is great software “We could see
CloudStack was a game changer”John Gillam, CTO, BT Cloud
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CloudStack Users
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CloudStack Users 2.0
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CloudStack Users 3.0
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200+ active contributors, 7o+ organisationsNow 72 86 committers
Our Community is great
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Our community is driven by users
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So, what’s the problem then ?
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________ ___ is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained
nuclear chain reaction.
Critical Mass
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This is an asymmetric situation
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Cloud
OpenStack
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Our main defence play
We are production ready, we’re easy to
install. That other thing you’re
considering isn’t
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So, onto the problems that we CAN control
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Don’t shoot Don’t shoot the
messenger
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Problem #1
We do NOT engage customers well
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The world according to ASF
The roles• Users• Contributo
rs• Committer
s• PMC• Customers
?
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The most important participants in the project are people who use our software. Users can contribute to the Apache projects by providing feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature suggestions. As well, users can participate in the Apache community by helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums. Users who participate in the project through any mechanism are considered to be Contributors
The most important participants in the project are the people who don’t contribute directly to the project. They are the people who influence others in order to allow them to use our software. They are the customers
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The FOSS adoption cycle
Contributors
Committers
Development
Adoption
Users
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The FOSS adoption cycleContributors
Committers
Development
Customers
Adoption
Users
Marketing
Perception
Engagement
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Making a key technology choice
I think we need to do cloud
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Making a key technology choice
We do Cloud
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Making a key technology choice
Look at our
clouds
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Making a key technology choice
We’re better
than the others
because…
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Everybody else
says we’re great
Making a key technology choice
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All our customer
s
Making a key technology choice
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You have to choose
us
Deal
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I think we need to do cloud….I’ll think
I’ll phone CloudStack
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“Subscribe to @Users – we’re all nice guys”
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Problem #2
We rely on volunteer marketing
Not enough in the asymmetric world
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Problem #3
Once we engage customers, how can they support us ?
User>Contributor>Committer>
Customer > ????
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Problem #4
Our largest contributor has a $dayjob
Citrix do not sell CloudStack
No incentive at grassroots level
Waiver: Citrix created this thing, that was visionary. Citrix spend $$$$ in supporting this project. They are our biggest contributor and,
without their hard work, events like this wouldn’t happen …..today
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Problem #5
The ASF has the best OSS governance model…
Prohibits direct commercial support for project
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Problem #6
Not enough users become contributors
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Problem #7
“I could see the tumbleweeds blowing through your community”CEO of SDN startup
Mailing lists don’t demonstrate activity well to
outside world
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Summary A great product, great community Perception & awareness problems Our structure doesn't let us engage well
with customers Need for more coherent marketing How do we fix it ?