I guess it all depends on how cynical you want to be. I wasn't very involved with the effort but my understanding was that it was an attempt to get HotWax devs more involved in the open source project and interacting with the community more. The community days have been occurring a lot longer than the duration of this OPL event, but I guess some people wouldn't know that, because it isn't about promotion. OPL was just something fun to add some competitive spirit to the existing community days.
I don't really see how it was promotional for HotWax, I'm struggling to find much promotion of the effort in the dev list other than this thread, all other threads I could find just referenced "community day" and no mention of the company. Given the hundreds (or thousands?) of hours of work contributed to the effort, I don't really see how this could be some masterful ploy to promote the company, the project is the only winner here. The devs involved that I've met really care about OFBiz and I'm sure it is disheartening for them to read the negative emails in this thread. The amount of work contributed was significant and they should be proud of what they accomplished. Regards Scott On 26 November 2016 at 04:20, Paul Piper <[email protected]> wrote: > Sharan, > > I can see where you are coming from, but I don't think that's really the > discussion. Everybody (myself including) can be blamed for cross-promotion > of his own work. I have no problem with that, unless it gets out of hand. > However, I think a bit of an honesty in an open source community like this > should always be in place: When there are events done by companies to > promote themselves and their services, then it is simply dishonest to claim > that they are community driven projects. It takes away from the Apache > brand > and makes the community look a lot weaker than it really is. > > This has nothing to do with the promotional aspect itself. I have no doubts > that I am guilty of also naming scipioerp, too. I do that, because in my > eye > it is beneficial for other parties to rely on third party providers to have > somebody accountable for a product. This community cannot provide the > services itself or deliver a product that is entirely up to standards ootb > (hence the focus on being a framework), so it is a mutually beneficial > agreement. I therefore have no problems with hotwax promoting their > services > either. > > I do have to point out, however, that there is a distinction between the > community and a third party provider. One is not the other and does not > speak or represent the other. Like I mentioned, the hotwax event was just > that: a hotwax event with the intention to spark interest in hotwax > services. Telling us otherwise is a dishonesty this community does not > deserve. > > Regards, > Paul > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble. > com/OFBiz-Premier-League-Reviewers-Choice-Award-tp4699250p4699613.html > Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
