On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > This is a similar page documented on OpenOffice.org http://projects.openoffice.org/ > > > 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 > > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
