Excellent thanks Jim. Any others interested? You cannot be shy when it comes to this :).
Alex On 4/5/07, Jim Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex, I'll try to help in regards with #1 and #2. I, recently, blog about LS. Check out http://www.idtopia.com/blog/ One thing we can do is to have all of the committers to create their own blogs and then setup a blog aggregator on directory.apache.org. We can then make the aggregated blogs available as a single RSS feed. Let me know if you help in setting it up at Apache. I am familiar with those tools. Jim On 4/5/07, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > OK I'm joking a bit about the title but we need someone to keep and eye out > and start thinking about how to spread the word about Apache Directory > products. We've got a lot of good stuff here and we don't market our goods. > Other analogous products out there are being plastered all over the place > and many features are publicized when some boast more about vaporware then > existing software. Of course we will do no such thing but marketing what we > do have is a good idea IMHO. > > We're not in the business of competing with others but just about having > fun. However I get a bit irritated when people put down our project. > Someone recently told me that a high level person at SUN involved with > OpenDS said at a major conference that they're going to plow right over us > because we have no marketing behind our product or no roadmap. I wonder why > they made no mention of features instead to be the deciding factor :). The > comments made were something to the effect of we're just having fun building > it: which is true in that respect. The product of a labor of love goes much > further IMO than something you just get paid to do. Anyways it does not > hurt to spread the word about ApacheDS, LS and Triplesec. > > We could post more on various mailing lists, forums like freshmeat/slashdot, > TSS, ldapguru, wikipedia and other sites not to mention blogging about the > features we introduce into these products. I think all of us in the > community have something we can do. No one person can do it alone however > it would be nice to have someone thinking about and feeling out how we are > doing it and keeping tabs on this aspect of our project. We don't really > have this kind of role at Apache however IMO I think it's a shortcoming. > Companies like SUN have dedicated paid personal focused specifically on > these aspects. It's time for the role to emerge here. > > So is anyone interested in volunteering to help us in these capacities? > > (1) keep an eye on the pulse of Apache Directory products out there on the > Internet > (2) prodding us to blog more and spread the word more > (3) coming up with new ideas on how to increase Directory product uptake > (4) making sure every significant release has some press > (5) keep an eye out for new features introduced by other products that will > be worth while in ours > (6) tracking AD product uptake by users and getting their feedback > > Thanks, > Alex > > >
