Someone (forgive me, I forget who... sorry!) linked this to me on IRC the other day and I thought it was very cool and interesting - and thought I'd share some of the bits with others. openSUSE has their strategy, SWOT, and industry assessments posted online, openly and transparently (kudos to them!). I think they have done an awesome job thus far. http://en.opensuse.org/Documents They also have a link to the survey they did in February 2010 (8700 participants!) - generally surveying who their users are, what they are using linux for, what types of development they do, etc. http://en.opensuse.org/UX/openSUSE_Survey_2010 There is also a link to this page: http://www.90-9-1.com/ - which I thought was very interesting, particularly in light of the user base discussions and diagrams that we've all seen. Essentially 90-9-1 dives into (no, no, PLOWS into) these three points: * 90% of users are the “audience”, or lurkers. The people tend to read or observe, but don’t actively contribute. * 9% of users are “editors”, sometimes modifying content or adding to an existing thread, but rarely create content from scratch. * 1% of users are “creators”, driving large amounts of the social group’s activity. More often than not, these people are driving a vast percentage of the site’s new content, threads, and activity. (Incidentally, if you haven't seen the User Base information, I encourage you to do so: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base . I was also looking for the page that has the user base triangle diagram - does anyone know where that is?) Additionally - Wikimedia has some REALLY awesome documentation and information available about their current strategy process. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page What I love about what they're doing is that they're hitting three key points: * Where we are now * Where we should go * How we should get there And not just in a short term view - they're looking at the development of the 5 year plan, and figuring out what the waypoints are to get them from the place they are currently at. And similar to openSUSE - they're also doing this in a community fashion. I'd like to add that Wikimedia strategy was part of the opensource.com "Open Your World" Forum that was done online a few days ago. I really encourage everyone to read this blog post - http://opensource.com/life/10/5/spreading-dandelions-open-your-world-recap - and watch the linked session recordings. The Wikimedia one in particular was presented by Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen associates - and you can also download the slide set if you don't want to listen to the whole thing (at the bottom of the page where the video presentation loads up - click on "presentation PDF.") I think it's great to see other communities tackling the same kinds of things we are - does anyone know of any other communities doing similar things in terms of strategic thinking? -robyn PS. I think i will make this a blog post. Too interesting to not spread around! -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
