Hopefully we can have all opinions of all vendors here... Perhaps we (NH team) are worried about something that for you (vendors) is not a problem.
In practice we can give you a space in NH-Forge, you can blog a review of your product and so on but what you can't do is start a commercial war and involve us. If you can come in a sort of agreement, we are open to hear proposal about how give more visibility to commercial products inside www.nhforge.org On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, sbohlen <[email protected]> wrote: > NOTE: This is a continuation of a discussion branch that began in this > thread of the NHUSERS group: > > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/166cd3b0e77c9e35/056321a3ec570d3b > > > ---- > > Frans: > > Uh....I'm honestly a bit confused by your response as I think we're > going to have to declare that we seem to be "in violent agreement" on > (nearly) all of these points. > > From reading your comments, my concerns appear to be yours as well: I > too am interested in an area of NHForge that can assist adopters of NH > in finding commercial tools to improve their "NH experience" but in > such a way that the NHForge site itself (and by extension the NH team) > isn't directly involved in endorsing, ranking, commenting, or > otherwise doing anything that would make it appear as if one vendor or > tool was better/worse than any other vendor/tool (e.g., NH is able to > maintain its neutrality). > > My list of 'principles' that I tried to enumerate in my post seemed > (to me, at least) a reasonable set of guidelines to enable us to > achieve exactly those goals (providing visibility for such offerings > while maintaining neutrality). I think remaining neutral is 'good > practice' in re: NH's relation with commercial tools/projects, but > frankly I think its equally good practice in re: NH's relation with > open-source and/or free tools/projects as well (e.g., I think it > equally inappropriate for NH to be 'recommending' one OSS tool over > another -- just as with commercial offerings). > > My suggestion was to find a way to list such products/vendors without > appearing to 'endorse' or 'rank' them in any manner. > > I don't think I said (and I certainly didn't mean to inadvertently > imply) that there is no place in the NH ecosystem for commercial > offerings -- quite the reverse, in fact. I was merely trying to > suggest that whatever manner is decided upon to attempt to increase > 'visibility' of such things on the NHForge site be accomplished in > such a way that NH's neutrality towards any of these offerings remain > intact. > > I certainly recognize that one level of such imperfect neutrality will > be instantly sacrificed merely by listing a product/vendor on the > NHForge site, but that's why I indicated that it needed to be very > clear to any vendor HOW to get their product listed should they want > to do so (e.g., so that it wasn't made to appear that the listed > vendors/products were in any way part of an "elite club" that over > vendors were unable to 'join'). > > I hope this serves to clarify the intent of my comments (even if it > appears I wasn't entirely clear in my prior content). > > -Steve B. > > -- Fabio Maulo
