[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS.org web site design project

[summatusmentis@gmail.com]

> One of the things I'm finding useful about Richard Campbell's book,
> Managing AFS: The Andrew File System, is the chapters on business case
> studies and the chapter on building the business case for AFS.  I hope
> there will be some room in the new web site for people to pay
> attention to the human logistics of AFS in addition to the
> technology--how do people get their organizations to embrace it, and
> how do you keep it financially supported in the IT budget.

This is one of the things we'd like to have as part of the site, how
people have moved their organizations to AFS, what it took for them
convince their superiors, etc. We'd like to have this website
multi-targeted, in that it has information for both current users and
potential users needing to make a case for it.

> Of course, I got very excited in Monday's discussion when someone
> proposed a button for newbies.  It is much, much too hard to figure
> out how to stand up a reference demo system if you're not already a
> programmer or AFS groupie.  Unfortunately, I don't see reference to
> that in your project page notes.

It's a distinct possibility that I missed  that as part of my notes
from Mondays meeting. We are currently still in the early planning
stages, there is absolutely room for community involvement and
suggestion. Let me go back and see what you mean by "newbie button"and
I'll modify the project page.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'd like to get everyone involved

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Jacob Thebault-Spieker
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Jacob Thebault-Spieker
Cell: (320) 288-6412
http://summatusmentis.wordpress.com