Am 28.11.12 06:14, schrieb Martin Cooper: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Johannes Geppert <jo...@apache.org> wrote: > >> It looks there is a broad agreement related to the projects links and the >> Roadmap FAQ. >> So i have dropped it from the site. >> >> Also I have added a Facebook and G+ Integration beside the Twitter >> Integration. >> Looks like this is our current News Section. ;-) >> > > Why are we supporting commercial enterprises from our site? As a 501(c)3 > organisation, are we allowed to do that? >
We have an "official" Twitter account - @TheApacheStruts - which we use to spread news about Struts and to interact with our community. Just like @TheASF, @TheApacheTomcat or @ApacheJames. On Facebook, there is as well a page voluntarily maintained by Struts PMC members, called "Struts2 Users. Objective: spreading and dispatching news, interacting with the community. Currently 1400+ "likes" aka followers. See: https://www.facebook.com/apachestruts On G+, there is again an page voluntarily maintained by Struts PMC members, called "Apache Struts". Objective: spreading and dispatching news, interacting with the community. Currently more than 3700 people are following. See: https://plus.google.com/+ApacheStruts/posts See also on G+: "Apache Software Foundation", "Apache TomEE" The idea is to link this pages to our site just like we did with the twitter account in the branch (and other Apache projects do as well on their front page). So how is this "supporting commercial enterprises"? One could argue that we are using (free) services of commercial companies, yes. We do that all the time at Apache. I fail to see how this is promoting Twitter, Google or Facebook as companies. Ironically, the latter two are getting prominent ASF support since they are platinum sponsors: http://apache.org/foundation/thanks.html Linking to Struts related resources on Twitter, G+ or Facebook is as much of a support for commercial enterprises as linking to Struts Sourceforge is or Struts GitHub would be - free community resources offered and hosted free of charge by a commercial enterprise like SourceForge and GitHub. - René > -- > Martin Cooper > > > [...] -- René Gielen http://twitter.com/rgielen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
