On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:34 , Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote:

> couch.io comes back? wouldn't it cause creation yet another couchbase?
> or what should ensure people in that?


Well, we have branding guidelines in the works as well. People won’t be able to 
use *couch* in their offering’s names.




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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Heya Marketingers,
>> 
>> one of the things I keep noticing in the field is that people and companies 
>> decide against using CouchDB because there are no professional services or 
>> support offerings.
>> 
>> My main objective is showing that CouchDB is a viable solution and that 
>> commercial services are being catered to.
>> 
>> Of course there is Cloudant, but there are enough scenarios where that’s not 
>> an option.
>> 
>> Also of course, there are a number of people and companies that offer 
>> services for CouchDB, e.g. Benoit.
>> 
>> I think it’d be a great boost for the project if the main website (or 
>> sub-page) would have a direct pointer to the various offerings that exist so 
>> end users get a feel for how good they can be taken care of, if needed.
>> 
>> Say we all agree that it’s a good idea*, there are a few open questions:
>> - who decides which offerings get listed?
>> - what would be a rule or guideline for refusing an entry?
>> - how do we deal with offers that turn out not to be so good after all?
>> - how can we avoid a “first come first serve” rush to offer something first?
>> - etc.
>> 
>> *If* we are going anywhere, I think we should look at other Apache projects 
>> and other open source projects and come up with guidelines that answer the 
>> above questions (and the ones you come up with :)
>> 
>> 
>> *- If we don’t agree that’s a good idea, that’s also fine, I just wanted to 
>> get a discussion around this going :)
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Best
>> Jan
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