I absolutely agree that if a project is housed at projectX.apache.org,
people will automatically associate projectX as an apache project, with
the full rights, privileges, and standing of all other apache projects,
from a marketing/branding perspective.
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, David N. Welton wrote:
[ changed subject to discuss topic more abstractly ]
I would agree with this if there was no immediate percieved benefit
when you are in Incubator, unfortunately it seems projects under
incubation are still perceived by the larger community as endorsed by
Apache.
I think that the further away from something you get, the more vague
your perceptions are. For instance, there are a lot of people who still
think that Apache == The Web Server. When seen from afar, I'd tend to
agree that a move to "something.apache.org" is going to be noticed by
most people who are not looking carefully as "project now associated
with apache.org".
This is a theory of mine that seems to be born out by talking with
people, but it's not really an exact science. What say the marketing folks?
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David N. Welton
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