No problem We understand that the Incubation process is often daunting and confusing, it is easy to break rules you didn't even know existed. Having been through Incubation with a project myself I am well aware of this fact.
Cheers, Rob On 25/03/2015 15:37, "Max Herrmann" <[email protected]> wrote: >Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention, and we apologize; >unfortunately this email was sent out prematurely without the proper >reviews. We will make every effort to ensure that future promotional >emails from GridGain, including for this webinar, will promote Ignite in >a vendor-neutral manner. > >Regards, > > >Max Herrmann, EVP Marketing >GridGain Systems > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob Vesse [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:35 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Vendor Neutrality > >All > >Just got the following email (forwarded below) in regards to a GridGain >run webinar about Apache Ignite > >While promotional activities are perfectly normal and acceptable within >the confines of relevant Apache policies [1,2] please be aware that >Apache is a vendor neutral organisation. In particular the language "get >the details of this exciting new Apache project directly from the source" >implies GridGain as the source in the email rather than the ASF. > >You should either promote Ignite in a vendor neutral manner (which this >email does not IMO) or promote GridGain as a product while appropriately >attributing it as being powered by Ignite. > >Part of the duty of the PMC is to enforce and protect the Ignite brand >and being vendor neutral is a key part of this. > >Regards, > >Rob > >[1]: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html >[2]: http://apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs.html > >Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:02 >Subject: Webinar: Apache Ignite(TM) (incubating) Coding Examples > >> Thank you for attending our introduction to Apache Ignite™ >> (incubating) webinar recently with GridGain co-founder and EVP >> Engineering, Dmitriy Setrakyan. We know that many of the attendees >> wanted to see coding examples, which we weren't able to do in that >> presentation. So we have scheduled a follow-up webinar to focus >> specifically on coding examples for Apache Ignite™ (incubating). >> >> In this one hour webinar Dmitriy will briefly review the essentials of >> Apache Ignite before taking a deep dive into several coding examples >> that show just how easy it is to implement this robust in-memory data >> fabric. There will be plenty of time for Q&A as well, so this is the >> perfect opportunity to get the details of this exciting new Apache >>project directly from the source. > > >
