[Ootb-hive] The Order of the Bee

[Boriss Mejias]

Hi Jeff,

Very useful feedback and thanks for your enthusiasm on the idea. I'm going
again for 5 days offline, so I'll be back on Tuesday, but a few words
before that.

I think those two major groups of activities you mentioned is a key part of
the mission, so it is a great summary of what we want to achieve. With the
first one we target the Alfresco Community = the people, and with the
second one we target the Community Edition = the software.

That's it for now.
More to come next week.
cheers
Boriss


On 3 June 2014 01:28, Jeff Potts <jeff.potts at alfresco.com> wrote:

> This sounds great, I am all for it in concept.
>
> My initial thought is that Richard has the same goal as you do, which is
> to convey the importance of open source and the community to Alfresco
> leadership (and echo'd back to the broader community). But he's only one
> guy so, obviously, needs the help of the bees. So I'm just wondering if
> there are certain pieces of this that could be hosted at Alfresco but with
> the community given edit access. Just a thought.
>
> Just brainstorming here, I think there are two major groups of activities:
> (1) Promoting and encouraging contributions, collaboration, and activity in
> the ecosystem regardless of edition and (2) Encouraging the download,
> installation, and production use of Community Edition.
>
> Anything in the first bucket is a no-brainer. So highlighting add-ons,
> translations, bug reports, bug fixes, blog posts, tutorials, screencasts,
> helpful forum members, active IRC channels, meetups, etc. falls in this
> category. This stuff should be showing up in newsletters, in the wiki, on
> the community landing page. It should be part of a report that goes to
> management that has metrics that says, "Here's what the community did this
> quarter".
>
> As I mentioned in my talk, Richard and I are having fun but not scaling.
> Me leaving does not help that. :) He can't be everywhere or see everything.
> Maybe there's a way the community can "report in" every month or something.
> Then Richard can take that up the chain. The challenge is that the most
> vocal members who are motivated to report in are a fairly small (but
> passionate!) group. So, really, this kind of thing needs to be automated as
> much as possible.
>
> It's the stuff in the second bucket--actively promoting CE--that is
> challenging. This is the nature of *commercial* open source--there is
> always this tension between sales, who often sees the free software as
> competition, and the community who tends to see the longer-term view. At
> some level, everyone understands that a large number of Enterprise Edition
> users started as Community Edition users, but highly-visible promotional
> activities around Community Edition feel competitive and even
> antagonistic/inflammatory to sales and management. As a simple example,
> Alfresco struggles to figure out where/how to list CE on the web site. Too
> much prominence and sales gets mad. Too little and the community team gets
> mad (and downloads drop).
>
> So you're unlikely to see Alfresco do much more than say, "Here is
> Community Edition if you want to download it, go ahead". (In fact, you may
> have noticed that the opt-in CE download was recently removed--you must now
> provide an email address to download unless you go to SourceForge or some
> other source).
>
> Ultimately, the community is free to do whatever it wants, subject to the
> license. My only advice at the moment (maybe I'll have more after Friday)
> is to look for ways to help Richard meet his goals and avoid duplicating
> work for the first bucket. For the second bucket, it's going to depend on
> how close to "the line" you want to take it.
>
> Jeff
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> On 2 June 2014 17:26, Boriss Mejias <tchorix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff and Richard,
>>
>> I'm sending you this email on behalf of the members of the Order of the
>> Bee (OOTB, in Cc), a new organization with a name completely inspired on
>> Jeff's community keynote in Barcelona.
>>
>> Call it telepathy, coincidence, but the time couldn't be better given the
>> fact that Jeff is leaving Alfresco. On Friday, May 23, while talking to
>> some fellows on the IRC channel (not logged, just PM) we decided to create
>> the OOTB with the following goal: Guarantee the existence of the
>> Alfresco Community based on a free/libre solution for document management.
>>
>> As you guys know, we are worried that the current management of Alfresco
>> doesn't see the value of Alfresco being open source, but for us, that's a
>> core thing for having this great community. We also think that Alfresco
>> wouldn't be what it is without its community. And by community, we don't
>> mean users of Alfresco Community edition, but also people using Alfresco
>> Enterprise, Alfresco partners, and Alfresco employees willing to
>> collaborate with each other to create a better software, and a better
>> community.
>>
>> So, our first goal is to make the contribution of the community shine on
>> the eyes of Alfresco management, so that they keep committed to give
>> support to the community, and keep Alfresco open source.
>>
>> To achieve such goal, we are going to host an Alfresco instance with
>> several of the best addons made by the community. We will also need some
>> plain html site to show and link other kind contributions such as meetups,
>> irc channel, forums and blog posts. The most important concept behind the
>> order is that Alfresco as a company, *together* with the Alfresco Community
>> can get the best of Alfresco as a software.
>>
>> We are telling you this because you guys are our interface to Alfresco
>> (as a company) and we want some feedback about the idea, to help us focus
>> on the best approach to make our statement as strong as possible.
>>
>> So, feedback is welcome.
>> cheers
>> Boriss
>>
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