Chip, I've been very clear, this *is* a commercial offering, we will be making money. ShapeBlue makes its money out of services around Cloudstack. This is what we do to feed our kids.
These courses have been in development for some time, we have invested time & money in creating a structured course with classroom & online version and also a whole set of hands-on labs. To be frank, I would expect *some* degree of support from the community on this. I'm taking a commercial risk, creating something that that surely can only help ACS long term I have offered/donated 20% of the places on the Santa Clara course to the community free of charge. I am really trying to make sure that we respect the rules & governance of the project (which I have to do carefully as we are a vendor who primarily are about CloudStack). I think we've always managed to do that (if we haven't, I would like to be told). However, if there is a training course being run in our technology , then people should know about it; and it SHOULD be in a weekly news update IMO. If the course was being run by somebody else, I would say the same thing.; I would want to know about it. We should not refuse to mention it because somebody is making some money out of it. I am not asking for endorsement, I am asking to help communicate something that people may find useful & want to purchase. Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 May 2013 18:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Weekly News Items? On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:14:41PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Giles Sirett wrote: > > Joe > > > > I'd like to add our upcoming CloudStack Bootcamp courses to the > > news/events. (once Matt has made collab bold) However, they are > > commercial offerings. Is that permissible ? > > Maybe? I don't have a strong objection, as long as they're CloudStack > specific and they're added with the same format as other events. > Anyone else? IMO, if the costs for attendance were only to cover the cost of doing the training, then I'd be fine. I assume, however, that ShapeBlue is hoping to make a little profit from the training. (If I'm wrong, correct me) While I *love* that it's happening, and I hope that it goes well, and frankly like companies in our ecosystem to be profitable... the project itself should not be endorsing commercial ventures. Comments / flames? -chip This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related companies. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
