On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/18/2011 10:27 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: >> >> FYI, Brand Management is working on an Apache Project Corporate >> Recognition Branding Policy to cover cases similar to this. >> >> The ASF is a vendor-neutral non-profit, and as such our projects should >> be careful to manage their websites and projects for the benefit of all >> their users, and to not endorse or otherwise be used by third parties >> for their marketing benefits. >> >> However healthy projects also understand that for-profit third parties >> are an important part of the ecosystem that builds our products, so we >> do allow Apache projects to have links pages to things like other >> trainers, consultants, and even other software providers who build >> software that works with Apache software. >> >> It would definitely be helpful for some committers with past experience >> with OOo work to collect a list of sites like this, and then come up >> with some specific suggestions / project policies for maintaining lists >> like that in the future. Then we can review the policy in terms of >> Apache branding policies. It's definitely up to the (P)PMC to manage >> this kind of resource, to ensure it's used fairly. > > well...maybe I've started on this > > see: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice+Domains >
I had not seen this page recently. It looks like a lot of good work as gone into it, enumerating the various OO,org services, etc. Thanks. > I decided to just add an extra column to what were the current "internal" > sites to attempt to define migration strategy. Actually, I was just about to > do some more work on it when I saw this post. > > As for BizDev -- well I may get slapped for this one -- I'm really not all > that sure about the activity of this particular project of late. I think it > *may* have been started a while back when there was much more emphasis on > getting businesses on the whole scale migration to OO.o bandwagon. I don't > know what the situation is now. The mailing list does not seem to be > available, for example. I tried to go through many of the incubator projects > and make an assessment, but obviously others may have differing opinions. > >> >> A 30 second look at the consultants.html page shows that it looks pretty >> good, and I bet we can definitely continue pages like that in the future. >> >> - Shane >> >> On 8/18/2011 12:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> I'm thinking of things like this, a directory of consultants providing >>> services to OpenOffice: >>> >>> http://bizdev.openoffice.org/consultants.html >>> >>> Obviously, this is a very important part of the ecosystem. But I'm >>> not sure how much we can mix commerce and non-profit together. How do >>> other projects handle this? >>> >>> -Rob > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "Those who love deeply never grow old; > they may die of old age, but they die young." > -- Sir Arthur Pinero >
