Re: [OSCOM] Plan: OSCOM Revised (1 week)

Nasty ba... :LOL:

Ok let's try to summarize it a bit.


A possible future about OSCOM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What's OSCom for me? - Basically it is a kind of umbrella organization 
which helps to get some certain things achived which the single project 
could not achive themselfs or only with a huge effort.

OSCom could be a kind of Open Source CMS trade union which works in 
political fields or in areas which are just bigger as the problems of 
one project.


One example could be a CMSDay or conference which focus on the issues of 
CMS in a different way than the commercial conferences do. Something 
which achieves a bit different solutions that help the projects to work 
together or help the commercial buyers to use/understand those projects 
more easy.

At the Linuxday in Karlsruhe this year we might start with something 
like this, as some of us have discussed to do an evening event that is 
dedicated to give all of us a more indeep background of the different 
solutions. This could e.g. help to get a better understanding of the 
different concepts and with this an idea where we can work together or 
may be profit for the work others have done already.

That's something which would be nearly impossible without OSCom.



A second role for OSCom could be a kind of standardization organisation. 
At this point I'm not thinking on standards of coding or software 
standards in general. I'm thinking more about documentation or 
certification standards.

Building a certification system for your project costs huge effort. It's 
not only a huge amount of work which needs to be done it's also a huge 
amount of knowledge, which you normally don't have. OSCom could provide 
templates, strategy papers aso. to make it much easier for you to 
implement a certification individually for your project.

The idea is not that we have a OSCom certification, but as I said abouve 
- the umbrella - could provide a basic structure which you could adapt 
to your own needs.



Last thing for the moment could be a united advertizing campange. It's 
much simpler for us to organize let's say a road show, or a ad campagne 
all together, than each one for it's own. Even projects which have 
companies behind them - such as EZ or Typo - don't have unlimted monney. 
And a general campagne that focus on OS CMS solutions in general could 
help them in the same way as it would help smaller projects.



There is one more thing, which I have achieved already. Unfortuanlly I'm 
not allowed to talk about it yet. But it will not be long when I can 
point you to a marketing / opensource campagne which was quite difficult 
to achieve (convince the company that is doing it now). With OSCOm as 
the active union/group behind someone it would have been much simpler.


Conclusion:

What should OSCom be in future?

I think it would be good to have a kind of organization that supports 
the different projects in political and common topics. Providing those 
services will automatically lead into the situation that more people 
could be reached for all projects.


At least that would be for what I will work within OSCom.

Alex



Sandro Groganz schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I know from some of you from private conversations that they have 
> further ideas and comments on the future of OSCOM. Please, share them 
> with us within one week.
> 
> The next action after April 9 is that I will summarize all input and 
> present a new plan.
> 
> Most importantly, this new plan will contain a list of volunteers and 
> tasks they have committed themselves to. We need clear responsibilities 
> and realistic projects to build something big from various small 
> building blocks.
> 
> Sandro
> 
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