It is a good article and thanks to Steve for writing and Karen to *trying* to promote. Sunando is right – its great to see any cloudstack related coverage and I agree that this can only help the overall awareness.
However, it is an article about CCP, not about Apache Cloudstack. I have no criticism of that, its great to see, and an interesting read. From a practicality viewpoint: I think the problem with promoting this from the project is it could actually lead to confusion. (we all know many in the media still refer to this as Citrix Cloudstack) . If the official Cloudstack feeds suddenly start tweeting about specific vendors tech or services, that’s ripe for confusion From a governance perspective: The project should not be promoting 3rd party product marketing in this way. With a marketers hat on, that’s frustrating, but I wouldn’t ask an Apache project to promote my business through official channels On Marks comment “dammed if we do, dammed if we don’t” : Mark I don’t think anybody’s criticising anybody else for ramping up the marketing efforts. The previous threads were about the uncertainty of Citrxs involvement in Cloudstack, and this type of activity certainly helps dispel some of that. I think this is a specific issue about asking a “group of volunteers” to start promoting a piece of vendor marketing. To that extent, I think this discussion thread would have started at any point in time if Karen made the same request (i.e. I think we need to separate these two subjects. This is a specific issue been raised about this one request – not about the bigger picture) But lets not fight over this: I’m happy to tweet about this article, (and think I already have ) - I’m sure many others here will also be happy to do so (and some may not) Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Sunando Bhattacharya [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 February 2015 05:05 To: [email protected]; Abhinandan Prateek Cc: Chip Childers ([email protected]); David Nalley Subject: Re: Latest Blog Post I think promoting this blog actually helps our overall cause. Over the last few months, we have always felt that one of the major reasons of cloudstack being a laggard (adoption-wise) is the general perception in the market that Citrix is slowly pulling out its support from the project. Hence articles like these go a long way in changing those perceptions. Moreover, one of the big reasons for the widespread interest in Openstack is the number of vendors offering commercial forks/support on it. Hence if any other vendor comes out with the same for cloudstack, we should happily promote. However, I also agree with Abhi that any post by Citrix should also have a few lines that talk about the Cloudstack project/ community in general. — Best, Sunando Bhattacharya +91 97111 52299<tel://+91%2097111%2052299> www.indiqus.com<http://www.indiqus.com/> On 3 February 2015 at 10:25:09 am, Abhinandan Prateek ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: Yes, it is a nice post about the closed source private fork, that was rarely discussed in community. I would expect such blogs that are promoted officially to do more to display the vibrancy of the community, instead of taking a narrow view. It is debatable whether it should be promoted officially, though for this instance I will keep my vote neutral. -abhi > On 03-Feb-2015, at 9:49 am, Rohit Yadav > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Steve - Good post on CCP. > > Karen - why should we be promoting any closed source fork on CloudStack’s > twitter account? As long as a fork is closed source and we don’t have the > four freedoms to run it like we wish, study the code, modify, and > redistribute -- we should not care. If the blog could be modified to promote > the Apache CloudStack project then it would be alright to share it on the > official social media accounts. > >> On 02-Feb-2015, at 9:55 pm, Karen Vuong >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Steve – nice blog post! >> >> Chip/David – could you help upload a few tweets that I’ve created to the >> @CloudStack Twitter account? >> Spreadsheet:https://citrix.sharefile.com/d/s357c5f8e3754958b >> >> Help promote: >> >> I’ve created a few click-to-tweets. When you get a chance today, please feel >> free to help promote this blog post! >> >> Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Gs45e >> >> Building a carrier-grade cloud with @Citrix CloudPlatform - powered by >> Apache #CloudStack clds.co/1Ajf7ZM #cloudstackworks #xenserver >> >> Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/aa7B5 >> Powered by #CloudStack. CCP is touted by many as the most mature & robust >> option for building an #IaaS cloud clds.co/1Ajf7ZM @Citrix >> >> Thanks, >> >> Karen >> >> From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 8:47 AM >> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Latest Blog Post >> >> Hi All, >> >> Here’s my latest blog post on Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache >> Cloudstack). 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