Press release draft 2 I've tried to incorporate everybody's comments. I'm going offline now for 12 hours. As per Chips last post, if we're aiming for Monday, then I'll pick up all comments tomorrow and look at them all together. This will help me get the inevitable draft 3 together
Writing a press release for a meritoric bunch of software developers who all seemed to major in English - what could go wrong ? ========================PRESS RELEASE=========== The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack Has Become A Top-Level Project Mature, open source turn-key platform for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. [release location/date] The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 open source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. "When CloudStack first became an Apache Incubator project, it was a well-established cloud management platform, so its codebase was already mature," said Chip Childers, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "Our work in the Incubator has focused on the governance of the project and building a really strong community around Apache CloudStack." Formerly the product of Cloud.com, which was acquired by Citrix in 2011, CloudStack was submitted to the Apache Incubator in April 2012. It is a well-established cloud management platform, already widely in production use by many organisations. It is used to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing in both private-cloud, public and hybrid cloud environments. It has been proven to be both stable and highly scalable, underpinning production clouds more than 30,000 physical nodes, in geo-distributed environments. Asked to comment on the importance of becoming a Top-Level Project, Chip commented "CloudStack had the advantage of having many long-term, large deployments which had proven the stability and scalability of the technology. This helped us concentrate on adopting the 'Apache way' of governance, which is well understood and open, delivering so many great pieces of software over the years" "We know that Infrastructure -as-a-Service is the next generation of IT infrastructure and that people will demand open standards and open governance for such an important layer in their IT stack. That is why the CloudStack project meeting the rigorous standards of ASF governance is so significant. " When asked to comment on the Apache CloudStack community itself, Chip said: "we've managed to build a diverse, friendly and very open community around CloudStack. New members receive a really warm welcome and we make sure that all contributors are on an equal footing, whether they are writing code or helping with any other aspect of the project. As well as online involvement, we've already had a global collaboration conference and there are many CloudStack groups established in many different countries. " About Apache CloudStack Apache CloudStack is a complete software suite for creating Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Target environments include service providers and enterprises. It is used widely by service providers to set up an on-demand, elastic cloud computing services and by enterprises to set up a private cloud for use by their own employees. Apache CloudStack is also available to individuals and organizations that wish to study and implement an IaaS for personal, educational, and/or production use. Further information on Apache CloudStack can be found at [website URL] About Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation, a US 501(3)(c) non-profit corporation, provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of over 140 open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits potential legal exposure for our project committers. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process known as The Apache Way, Apache(tm) projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products. For further info, contact [contact info] =======ENDS====================== Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 giles.sir...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: 19 March 2013 18:40 To: cloudstack-marketing@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: press release draft On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:21:44PM +0000, Giles Sirett wrote: > I'm about to create 2nd draft based on comments received from > Joe,Chip,Noah & David If anybody else has any other comments, please let me > know in the next 30 minutes to I can work into the draft. Go for it Giles! This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. 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