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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:39:34 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Douglas Gruehl <douglas.gruehl@onstor.com>
Cc: Narayan Venkat <narayan.venkat@onstor.com>, Bob Miller
 <bob.miller@onstor.com>, Jonathan Goldick <jonathan.goldick@onstor.com>,
 Brian Baker <brian.baker@onstor.com>, Joshua Goldenhar
 <joshua.goldenhar@onstor.com>, Eric Barrett <eric.barrett@onstor.com>, Ian
 Brown <ian.brown@onstor.com>
Subject: onstor.org
Message-ID: <20071218133934.0abb3069@ripper.onstor.net>
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Proposal:
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Onstor Open Source presence: onstor.org

Summary:
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Set up an OSS portal on our onstor.org property targeted at the open
source development community with a variety of Onstor centric OSS
content, including source code patches to various open source projects
that are not [yet] adopted by upstream developers.  Other OSS and
Onstor related content would have a home here as well.  The site would
intentionally not be a source for Onstor marketing material.

Current:
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onstor.org owned by Onstor but has no IP address assigned to it.  In
fact the registration record still has our old address.

Scope:
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Simple web layout and implementation -- minimal work expected to
implement the framework.  Content supplied by engineering and techical
marketing staff.

Examples:
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There are several examples on the web that we can take ideas from.
Some of the bigger sites would be

http://oss.sgi.com   -- a timeless classic

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource  -- a very large site
reflecting, well, the size of IBM.

http://oss.intel.com/en-us/  -- one of the top OSS corporate portals.

http://code.google.com/hosting/projects.html

Vision:
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I envision our site to initially be significantly more modest than
some of these examples, at least until we start to support more projects
than the Linux kernel itself. That will happen organically over time as
the SystemX architecture matures and starts to undergo significant
development cycles.

This would be the perfect place for us to host OSS projects that we
decide to undertake (should we so decide) during the course of the
implementation work on S-X.

Look and feel to be very stark and simplistic, no gifs, jpgs, pngs,
etc.  Just informational text.  That's the way us developers like it.
A link back to our main site would be included, of course.  The Google
site is an excellent example: utterly simplistic.

I think at first we should have a left hand vertical list of links,
something like 'Code', 'Upcoming Onstor participating Developer
Conferences', maybe a pointer to our support site or a known external
Onstor-centric forum, a link to a feedback form where visitors can
enter messages or feedback about the site.

The rest of the page: TBD.

