+1 here! It's very nice to have news that is not coupled with endorsement.
Thanks -kd >-----Original Message----- >From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:48 AM >To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: Re: Weekly News Items? > >On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:38:46PM +0000, Giles Sirett wrote: >> 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. >> > >I want to be *very* clear that I'm not against community support for what you >are doing. The specific concern I had was about "endorsement" of a >commercial "service" and the implication it would have for how we would treat >commercial "product" announcements. > >However, looking back through past discussions on this topic, I believe the >overriding point is that as long as we are consistent and open about inclusion, >there are no problems. As stated, this is a pointer to something. > >In fact, I think that we should consider pointing to product announcements that >include CloudStack news as well (example: we could have pointed to >http://www.stackiq.com/products/rocks-cloud/ when it was announced). > >I'll sit down now... +1 for adding it. > >Thanks for being patient as I got through my own muddled thoughts in full view >of everyone... ;-)
