On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe Louis or Alexandro as project leads could tell us a bit more about > any recent activities when and what was done. ;-) > Just did. :-) > > Marcus > > > > Am 08/18/2011 10:28 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: > > >> >> 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 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 >>>> >>> -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
