I guess we all are, but following Olaf's implicit stance on it: I won't give a
rat-ass if we have logs or links or just words in this section.  Sure, it
won't look as pretty, but linking isn't against the law ;)

Cos

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:16PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> What if we ask nicely?  ;-)
> 
> I know enough folks at all these companies to be able to start a
> conversation. Should I?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Olaf Flebbe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ok, let me say it straight:
> >
> > Hortonworks is not mentioned there and cloudera is only claimed for CDH4 
> > based on bigtop.
> > As far as I stumbled over the artifact naming of current CDH5, they at 
> > least heavily modified the build process since.
> >
> > Both are using a package called bigtop-utils for instance, but does that 
> > "qualify" them to be mentioned as downstream users?
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> >> Am 17.05.2016 um 20:23 schrieb Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >> If I am not mistaken, the new version of the page is based of
> >>    https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Powered+By+Bigtop
> >>
> >> which was populated by the 'powered-by' projects themselves. So, yes - we 
> >> know
> >> for sure. Besides, a simple look into vendors' package dependencies shows 
> >> the
> >> foot-print of Bigtop all over the place.
> >>
> >> But I am fine with your proposed wording, although we are providing more 
> >> than
> >> just build. Runtime as well ie bigtop-utils, etc.
> >>
> >>  Cos
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:17PM, Olaf Flebbe wrote:
> >>> Hi Cos,
> >>>
> >>> Of course anyone need permission to use trademark logos.
> >>>
> >>> The point is not logos itself. What is the message we want to share ?
> >>>
> >>> Bigtop should not claim that any entity is a downstream user of bigtop. We
> >>> do not know for sure.  The downstream user itself should agree to be named
> >>> here. I can live with the section "powered by" in the current website.  
> >>> That
> >>> page has a very differentiated view.  Maybe we can reuse this page 
> >>> optically
> >>> pimped.
> >>>
> >>> I am very ok if Nate ask entities, if they approve to be named .
> >>>
> >>> Maybe the Mission statement can be made clear:
> >>>
> >>> To provide a generic build system for a vanilla distribution of Apache
> >>> Hadoop ecosystem projects, integrating other components early.
> >>>
> >>> Olaf
> >>>
> >>>> Am 17.05.2016 um 18:58 schrieb Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]>:
> >>>>
> >>>> Take it with as many graines of salt you want, but I don't think using 
> >>>> logos
> >>>> from someone's publicly available media kit for the purpose of referring 
> >>>> to
> >>>> the owner of it, requires any special permissions. But I'm not a lawyer.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cos
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:02PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>>>> No official logo approval.  For having clear and concise communication 
> >>>>> about
> >>>>> the project and what it provides to first time visitors feel that will 
> >>>>> be
> >>>>> the most important part of the homepage.  We went through similar
> >>>>> conversation bit over a year ago when working through the flyer design 
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> the number one thing in most conversations, and presentation q&a's is
> >>>>> usually along lines of "who is using it" and "what do you do with it".  
> >>>>>  The
> >>>>> resounding way to communicate that has been to say "x,y,z use it as a 
> >>>>> base
> >>>>> to build their distributions and custom component versions/packages...".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I can take on task of getting approvals, and can add a related/dependent
> >>>>> jira for the main site one
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Olaf Flebbe [mailto:[email protected]]
> >>>>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 1:50 PM
> >>>>> To: [email protected]
> >>>>> Cc: [email protected]
> >>>>> Subject: Re: new bigtop website
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Nate,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I like the design very much! The big tents are very good!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But I would refrain from using the logos in the "powered by" section.  
> >>>>> Do we
> >>>>> have have permissions to use these trademarks? AFAIK we do not.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Olaf
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Am 16.05.2016 um 22:12 schrieb [email protected]:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hello Bigtoppers,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> During some downtime I rekindled the effort for new site for the 
> >>>>>> project.
> >>>>> I based the initial design on ideas flushed out mid/late last year and
> >>>>> borrowing from the bigtop flyer we have been using the past 12+ months 
> >>>>> at
> >>>>> various events, as well as the workshop site/content I setup for some 
> >>>>> past
> >>>>> conference related events.  As such, the content is all in flux, 
> >>>>> including
> >>>>> menu at top, this is meant to get the ball rolling
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Initial rev of design and homepage mock can be found here:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://kaiyzen.github.io/bigtop/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It is currently setup as a github pages project.  Given some feedback 
> >>>>>> on
> >>>>> the list ways back with asf supporting it, and the great tooling around
> >>>>> Jekyll, figured it was easiest for my dev and collaboration efforts.  
> >>>>> As we
> >>>>> get things finalized we can decide how the group wants to manage/host 
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> new site
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am keeping notes that anyone who is interested in helping on content 
> >>>>>> can
> >>>>> add to:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Bigtop+Website+Notes+and+
> >>>>> Ideas
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Most important I feel will be the Getting Started content which should
> >>>>> fill in the average user(s) to carry out a lot of common tasks, 
> >>>>> centralizing
> >>>>> the details.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I will update the old jira item with relevant content updates and we 
> >>>>>> can
> >>>>> use that for tracking the finer details and delivery.  The rest of this 
> >>>>> week
> >>>>> will be some minor tweaks to design and fixing some cross browser and 
> >>>>> mobile
> >>>>> related layout issues (mobile friendly on day 1 is the goal), as well as
> >>>>> starting to flush out the template/framework for getting started content
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >

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