Hi Sally, Thank you for sharing and providing examples of what was tweeted as part of the @TheASF's "Did You Know?" campaign. That's a great example of how community members can help showcase the capabilities/successes of Apache CloudStack. This is very helpful!
Thanks, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Latest Blog Post Hello, everyone --I wanted to step in and clarify some items. Daan wanted to know the opinion of ASF Marketing & Publicity; below is my position as its Vice President. 1) the ASF is vendor-neutral. This means that all Apache projects are so as well. 2) showcasing successful implementations, deployments, and use cases is important in demonstrating project diversity, particularly in terms of "who uses you?". 3) sharing software vendor/service provider/user progress is A Very Good Thing, and is important in demonstrating project robustness, particularly in terms of "how are people using you?". If doing so includes items such as Ikoula sharing news of their recent award, Shapeblue's latest consulting offering, or Citrix's new product development, there should be no reason that can't be freely shared amongst our community, preferably on this list. In preparation of Giles' briefing with Forrester tomorrow I was able to list more than a hundred organizations that are using CloudStack --how/where else would we be able to learn about this? 4) some ways that Apache CloudStack can showcase capabilities/successes whilst maintaining vendor neutrality can be through tweeting success stories. Examples of what we've tweeted as part of the @TheASF's "Did You Know?" campaign include: - Did you know that Apache #Tika + #OODT power #NASA's just-launched #SMAP instrument ground data processing system? - Did you know that Facebook recently completed a 30 petabyte migration using #Apache #Hadoop and #Hive? - Did you know that #Apache #Hadoop, #MapReduce, #Mahout, and #Pig form the anti-spam analytic platform for Yahoo!Mail? - Did you know that @Apache_OODT is an integral part of the data infrastructure for @SKA_telescope, the world's largest radio telescope? - Did you know that @CommonCrawl use #Apache #Nutch to crawl billions of Web pages in a Cloud environment? - Did you know that you can now run @googlechrome apps across #mobile platforms using #Apache #Cordova? - Did you know that #Apache #Tomcat powers 15 TB of data daily for Aftonbladet.se, the largest website in Sweden? - Did you know that #Apache #OpenOffice provides $21M in value per day? - Did you know that #Apache #OODT helps power @MarsCuriosity downstream data archiving for #NASA Planetary Data System? - Did you know that with #Apache PDFBox you can create, manipulate, and extract content from PDF documents? ... and so on. There are many great stories to tell with Apache CloudStack! Let's celebrate that. 5) CloudStack isn't the first project to come to the ASF with an already-established user base. We've had dozens of projects originating from a particular organization, and there are often growing pains as the project settles in. I'm confident you'll agree we have a talented, passionate, diverse community that stands firmly behind an exceptional, robust, proven product. Yes, the request to promote a vendor's product on Twitter was in error. Let's remember that we will need these success stories as well as access to those working tirelessly behind scenes to help bolster the CloudStack community through MeetUps, Collaboration Conference, and other outreach/education events. I know we all want to do the right thing. Let's acknowledge this as a lesson learned and move on. There are so many bigger things ahead for us. Go Apache! If there are any confidential items that need addressing, please forward to the CloudStack press list, or to me at the ASF Marketing & Publicity <[email protected]>. Thanks, Sally = = = = = vox +1 617 921 8656 skype sallykhudairi ________________________________ From: Steve Wilson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 14:00 Subject: Re: Latest Blog Post Honestly, whether the official CloudStack twitter account posts this isn¹t the point. That¹s preaching to the choir anyway. I¹m doing my best right now to show that Citrix supports Cloudstack ‹ and I did put ³Apache CloudStack" in the first sentence of the blog! I will say the overall tone with respect sniping at people trying to support the project here is disappointing. -Steve On 2/2/15, 9:28 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03-Feb-2015, at 10:04 am, Mark Hinkle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was on the road and asked Karen to do create some tweets especially >>since this blog was partially in response to lat months¹s thread about >>Citrix not supporting CloudStack. I thought we promoted any success >>based on CloudStack whether it¹s a proprietary fork, storage solution or >>other tool. I¹d be lying if I didn¹t have an opinion but would be >>curious to see how many people agree with Rohit. If there¹s a majority >>opinion I¹d support whatever the group wants. It seems the phrase >>³Damned if we do, Damned if we don¹t² applies. > >The blog talks about CCP and does not talk anything about ACS - the >project or its community. The blog still has a ³powered by Apache >CloudStack² sticker but should we promoting anything with such stickers? >I would be happy if it still could be edited to add a link to the project >and add a line or two like all past successes (proprietary forks or tools >or solutions) have done. > >Regards, >Rohit Yadav >Software Architect, ShapeBlue >M. +91 88 262 30892 | [email protected] >Blog: bhaisaab.org | Twitter: @_bhaisaab > >Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services > >IaaS Cloud Design & >Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> >CSForge rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> >CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> >CloudStack Software >Engineering<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> >CloudStack Infrastructure >Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> >CloudStack Bootcamp Training >Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> > >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. 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