Hi, I think we should list the companies with a short outline like, e.g. postgres does it here: https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/europe/
For codecentric one could write (I see no problem): PLC4X was initially started as an internal project at codecentric and open soure to the ASF. Christofer Dutz, the initiatior of PLC4X helps in his daytime job clients with the implementation of Drivers and blab la blab la And for us we could / would write something similar: The beautiful, wise, intelligent and charismatic Julian and his blalbalblablalbal I think you get the point? : ) Julian Am 27.01.20, 08:17 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>: Hi Julian, I think having links to commercial support offerings is a pretty important thing for us to have. If we have to allow anyone be listed there (even if they don't contribute to the project) well that will be "the toad we have to swallow" (Don't know how to translate this German saying to English). Right now I see the industries worries of not being able to get commercial support as being one of the most problematic things ... that was why I put the "commercial support" thing on our landing page. Would it be possible to mark companies who employ committers of the project (but not which ones) with a "*" and an explanation? Chris Am 27.01.20, 08:10 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <[email protected]>: Hey, @Christofer Dutz you can also a general discuss about whether or not we should do that. I am mostly concerned with clear rules, if we do it. But, in the end, its not granted, lets discuss it and if we cant get an agreement decide it. Julian Am 27.01.20, 06:55 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>: Hi Justin, So in general it would be OK to have a list of links to companies plc4x support pages? I don't care about seeing the ties between persons and companies. Just not happy to have any company listed. Chris ________________________________ Von: Justin Mclean <[email protected]> Gesendet: Montag, 27. Januar 2020 01:45 An: [email protected] <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] Guideline for "professional support" Mentioning on Homepage Hi, > as Lukas just opened up a discussion about mentioning commercial support on the (new) PLC4X Homepage. > One Example where this is done is Apache Druid (https://druid.apache.org/community/ see Getting Help). I dislike the Druid example as it shows who the committers are working for, that should not matter. Individuals contribute to Apache projects not companies. Having links to those companies (next to the committer name) when they may or may not be ASF sponsors is even worse. Re commercial supped listing them is OK as long as all that ask are listed and it not being seen as promoting or suggesting one over another. It must be vendor neutral. Thanks, Justin
