In the Apache Solr project, we have put up a Wiki page where companies/persons offering support/training/consulting/addons may add themselves. Very low cost, and it works. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Support And if someone checks all the links in that list say every year, then dead entries may be pruned...
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.facebook.com/Cominvent Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com On 27. mai 2012, at 18:19, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:54 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 10:22 -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>> Bah.. Drew got ahead of me :-P. >>> >>> Guy, perhaps you can help us clean this old database? >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Marketing/entreprises.html#france >>> >>> just let me know what to drop, I feel like grinding my axe today ;). >> >> Cool - I love a sharp axe, brings out the Norsk in me. >> >> I believe it would be best then to simply remove the page. >> >> 1 - better then trying to pick winners and losers, friend and foe, in >> the commercial world. >> >> 2 - ASF projects, from what I gather, do not do end user marketing or >> business development, just code. It is the apache way IMO and feel >> strongly now that this project should be no different. >> > > There is a difference between the project doing business development > and the project helping users find relevant resources to help them be > more productive with OpenOffice. > > In other words, the opposite of "picking winners and losers, friend > and foe, in the commercial world" is not necessarily to pretend the > commercial world does not exist. The opposite is to acknowledge that > it exists, that it can be useful, but to have proper disclaimers that > the user is informed that these are 3rd parties, not endorsed by the > project. > > That said, I look at this old consultant lists, and think of them > similar to the old CD distribution site. They are outdated and likely > to confuse users more than help them. Better to take them down now, > but continue the conversation on whether and how we might have such a > list in the future. My mind is not made up on that yet. But I'm > tending to think that any consultant who actually has a business > related to OpenOffice should be easy to find via Google using obvious > keywords. > >> Same for the other NL sites, yes I've looked at a bunch...There is a lot >> to remove from the education pages also, lots of links to outside >> organizations, dead email list links and the like. >> >> Shall we start the culling then - and let the chips fall where they may? >> > > I did this a while ago, but I can repeat. It is easy enough to scan > the ooo-site directory for openoffice.org email addresses. Since > these are all dead now, this would give a list of occurrences of dead > email addresses. > > There are "dead link" checkers we can run on the entire website, if we > want, that will also report on dead internal links and will spider > across ooo-site, wiki, forums, issues, everything in openoffice.org > domain. > > Also, and this is less resource intensive: I can provide a list of > links that Google reports as dead on the website, based on their > scanning. They don't check email addresses, however, but only > http/https URL's. > > -Rob > >>> >>> Pedro. >>> >>> >>> On 05/27/12 06:23, Guy Waterval wrote: >>>> Hi Dave, >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> 2012/5/27 Dave Barton<[email protected]> >>>> >>>>> FileHippo.com is a very popular download site for free software and for >>>>> many years they have been offering OOo binaries for download. They are >>>>> now offering >>>>> Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe from this >>>>> page: http://www.filehippo.com/download_openoffice/ >>>>> >>>>> While this is good for user awareness of our first release, some of the >>>>> information on that download page is incorrect and in one part totally >>>>> misleading: >>>>> >>>> There are other problems of this type, for instance, the fr webpage of >>>> the >>>> AOO project : >>>> >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/fr/ >>>> >>>> You will see a link "Boutique OpenOffice.org", pointing to the fr OOo.org >>>> former store, now in the hands of LibO : >>>> http://enventelibre.org/la-mouette. >>>> You can buy there old articles about OOo.org (remaining stocks) gently >>>> mixed with the new ones (LibO). They sell also articles for some other >>>> linked associations : >>>> >>>> - >>>> >>>> April : TDF Supporters : http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ >>>> - >>>> >>>> Framasoft, which writes great articles about OO.org : >>>> http://www.framasoft.net/article472.html >>>> >>>> In this case, the issue is not these associations themselves, which have >>>> the right to have their own opinion. The issue is, for me, the AOO project >>>> itself, which not controlls seriously its external communication. >>>> >>>> After several (public and private) requests inviting to be careful with >>>> some links present on the fr website, nothing has changed up to now. For >>>> me, these things are not to be minimized. I have nothing against a certain >>>> communication with the concurrent project, but if we will avoid some battle >>>> in the future, the best way is perhaps to be more careful with our external >>>> communication. >>>> >>>> Of course, this represents only my personal opinion, and has not to be >>>> interpreted as a direct attack or any perverse insinuation against the >>>> person who has in the hands the keys of the fr website. >>>> >>>> A+ >>>> >>> >>> >> >>
