[OSCOM] Does OSCOM really matter?

Hi,

what's the most critical part of making OSCOM successful?

1. That others care about it!

1. We need to be of benefit!

1. We need to attract contributors and an audience!

Hence, let's think thoroughly about the potential interest groups.

The main goal of OSCOM I formulated in the plan:

"We want to establish OSCOM as the number one umbrella organization for 
all issues related to Open Source content management. [...] The main 
goal of OSCOM is to foster innovation in the Open Source content 
management segment by creating the potential for information transfer 
between all involved persons."

Who will benefit from these goals? Whom do we want to reach?

This is the list of interest groups from the plan:

- developers
- project managers
- consultants
- journalists
- vendors
- solution providers
- users/customers
- others? (feel free to add)

What is your feeling, which of these groups could we reach in the 
beginning? What is their interest/the benefit they gain from 
contributing to OSCOM?

Which groups are really harder to reach, why?

Answers to these questions will tell us whether OSCOM really matters.

Sandro