On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:00:59PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Chip Childers wrote on Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:34:20 -0500: > > The CloudStack marketing community is currently discussing getting case > > studies from various users of the software, and understanding any > > current consensus on what's right vs. wrong would be helpful. > > > > An ASF project site should not endorse or prefer any single vendor. > It's fine to link to external sites --- Subversion links to external > parties for binaries, and OpenOffice for support --- but you need to be > impartial about it. Also use rel="nofollow" on external links. > > /me greps nofollow http://www.apache.org/**/*... > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking might be related. (It is > still a draft, so Shane might weigh in as to how close it is to his > current thoughts about an eventual policy. > > > While I'm sure that actively promoting the *idea* of users posting case > > studies on their own sites is perfectly fine, > > +1 > > > Has this type of thing been discussed other projects (and do you > > know the outcomes)? If not, what would be your guidance for CloudStack > > specifically, and Apache projects generally? > > You're aware of the issues here --- content useful to users, and being > neutral towards third parties --- so I'm confident you'll find a fair > balance. > > Daniel >
Thanks for the pointers Daniel. I think we may actually want to take Marks's advice on this. If we have a page on our website where it would be appropriate to reference case studies, it sounds like the most *open* approach would be to have it refer to the wiki.
