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Would we want to have a listing of those companies that have chosen to have integration with the CloudStack Project? :-) Matt On 3/5/13 4:09 PM, "Joe Brockmeier" <j...@zonker.net> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 5, 2013, at 02:59 PM, Mathias Mullins wrote: >> David, >> >> Then why do we have a "Integration Partners" section of the wiki? > >We don't. > >Well, we don't now. ;-) > >It's now "Companies with CloudStack Integrations." > >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Companies+with+Clou >dStack+Integrations > >We *did* have probably because someone created the page without being >precise about the language used. > >> We ask >> people to integrate but we don't want to mention that they integrate >>with >> it? Seems kinda backwards doesn't it? I know a lot of good companies >>that >> support the Open Source version and are very proud of that fact. Maybe >> it's just a ASF rule. > >It's not a matter of not mentioning it, it's a matter of being specific >about how we acknowledge the relationships of companies/organizations >that do things around CloudStack. > >Apache projects do not have corporate partners. We have no procedures or >mechanisms to accept a "partner," nor should we. Apache projects should >be vendor neutral, it's about community and code. > >That said, we can list companies that have products that support Apache >CloudStack - but they enjoy no special status within the project. Does >that make sense? > >Best, > >jzb >-- >Joe Brockmeier >j...@zonker.net >Twitter: @jzb >http://www.dissociatedpress.net/