On Friday 17 September 2010 13:15:20 Tim Brown wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2010 11:59:08 Matthew Mundell wrote:
> > Personally when I see company logos on a project homepage it turns me off.
> > Firstly, because it gives me the impression that the project is controlled
> > by a company instead of by the community. Secondly, because at least in
> > part the logos are for marketing.
that is the classic dilemma. It is hard to attract comitted users and comitted
developers
concurrently. When we try to give users confirmation that they can later upgrade
to commercial level (and this make decision making much easier) we disappoint
developers. If we make developers happy, we don't get the important users to
pay developers for the sustainable develpoment (quick enough).
Our homework is to carefully balance this. What I know is that several relevant
users did not choose OpenVAS because they thought it is a spare time developer
efford they can not rely on. They did not find/understood the Professional
Service
aspect.
> > I think a page linked from the main page like "Professional Support",
> > "Supporters" or "Sponsors" is more appropriate.
we have it (Professional Support). It is not understood or it is not prominent
enough.
> I would have to concur. Jan can you take a look at how projects such as
> Postgres, KDE etc handle this. PostgreSQL model is very similar to OpenVAS
> from what I understand.
PostgreSQL is different in several aspects though it is comparable in some
other ways.
BTW: Analog to PostgreSQL we should add "The worlds most advanced Open Souce
vulnerability scanner"
to the head of our Homepage, shouldn't we?
What would be your approach then to confirm vistitors that OpenVAS
is not a spare time programmer efford? In one minute of reading
at the latest it must be clear to them.
I do not intend to impose the company logos but I do care about the
rapid take up of OpenVAS of power users of which many have a commercial
background. The more we have of these the easier it is to keep alive
and grow the OpenVAS project. As Free Software under GNU GPL and without
a strategy to go proprietary as Nessus did!
Best
Jan
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