On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:58 PM Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathan Hartman wrote on Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:53 -0500: > > I'd like to showcase testimonials on the website (with the permission > > of those who provide them, of course), in a new page called something > > like Subversion Success Stories or maybe just Testimonials. The title > > isn't important right now. The important point is that we are trusted > > by commercial and government customers and are a component in various > > commercial products, and I would like to let the world know that. > > > > Is there any legitimate, substantial reason why we should not have > > such a page? > > The ASF's non-profit / 501(c)3 status requires that it be > vendor-neutral, so we'll want to have documented criteria for who is > allowed to be added to the page, and add anyone who meets them.
Regarding ASF requirements, before I do anything, I will find out what requirements we must meet. I am pretty sure we're allowed to do it [1]. My question is: Does the community *want* (or at least, is the community *neutral* about) having a "testimonials" / "success stories" / "who is using us" type of page? I would like to do it, as part of a much larger work I'm doing in staging-ng. First, with permission, quoth danielsh in a private conversation, who wanted to discuss this point on dev@: > It might make us look more corporatey, though? I.e., a page of > testimonials, that lists features but not known missing features)? My reply to that: Who can sponsor development? I want to appeal to corporatey users *and* to geeks like us. Yes, there's a fine balance here. We will be abundantly clear that we are a 100% open community-driven project. A testimonials/success stories page is a great place to ask for more community involvement in the development process. [1]: ASF projects with testimonials: https://beam.apache.org http://bloodhound.apache.org (Tweets) http://buildr.apache.org ("Why Buildr Rocks") https://camel.apache.org/community/user-stories/ http://cassandra.apache.org ("Proven") https://cayenne.apache.org/success-stories.html http://cloudstack.apache.org ("What are people saying?") https://couchdb.apache.org http://directory.apache.org http://drill.apache.org/poweredBy/ https://ofbiz.apache.org http://opennlp.apache.org/powered-by-opennlp.html (Air New Zealand testimonial) http://parquet.apache.org/adopters/ http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html http://phoenix.apache.org/who_is_using.html http://pivot.apache.org (Actian Corporation testimonial) http://poi.apache.org/casestudies.html ("Case Studies") http://river.apache.org/user-doc/success-stories.html http://samza.apache.org/case-studies/ ("Case Studies") Also, ASF projects with a "Who is using us" page (including commercial customers): https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Powered+By+Bigtop http://cocoon.apache.org/1365_1_1.html ("Who uses Cocoon?") https://cordova.apache.org ("Cordova apps showcase") http://druid.apache.org/druid-powered http://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/ ("Who is using Dubbo") http://eagle.apache.org http://flex.apache.org/community-showcase.html https://flink.apache.org/poweredby.html https://freemarker.apache.org/poweredBy.html http://griffin.apache.org http://groovy-lang.org/ecosystem.html http://jclouds.apache.org http://kafka.apache.org/powered-by http://karaf.apache.org/stories.html http://kylin.apache.org http://libcloud.apache.org http://oodt.apache.org http://openmeetings.apache.org/OurUsers.html http://apr.apache.org/projects.html http://pulsar.apache.org/powered-by/ http://shiro.apache.org http://skywalking.apache.org (and https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/docs/powered-by.md) http://spark.apache.org/powered-by.html http://trafficserver.apache.org/users.html http://turbine.apache.org/common/powered.html https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/UIMA/Powered+by+Apache+UIMA http://usergrid.apache.org/community/#deployments http://wicket.apache.org Yes, I have been studying all the ASF project websites. :-) Nathan P.S., incidentally, I think we should also have an "Integrations" page. We do (and can) integrate with a lot of stuff out there.
