I hope you can respect my wish to stick to this minimalistic
approach.
I expect I will not have to contribute further to this discussion
until a policy has been established by the project.
First, sorry for (re-)joining the discussion so late. I was first
traveling last week, then I had two days of vacation and then I
was ill for a few days. I just found the time to catch up with
the discussion.
Based on what I read hear so far plus some discussions with some
other people my personal preference for a solution would look as
follows, provided that we can find the resources (infrastructure,
people, time, etc.) to implement it:
1.) An automated consultants list that is open and free to
everybody, i.e.:
- Web form to add new entries
- For being listed an organization has to add a link back
to the OpenOffice.org home page (i.e. a minimal contribution
back to the project)
- Script-based checks if consultant pages are still alive
- Script-based checks if consultant pages really still link
back to OpenOffice.org
- Automatic removal of outdated entries
- Right for the community council to remove entries of
companies that do harm to the OpenOffice.org project
(unlikely, but theoretically possible)
2.) At the top of the consultants list is an additional list of
"featured" consultants that have paid for their logo to be
up there (amount to be defined) or have made significant
contributions as recognized by the community council, i.e.:
- Large code contributions
- Contributed localizations
- Contributed documentation
- Frequent sponsor of the OpenOffice.org conference
- Company owned by key individual contributor (e.g. project lead)
Any money coming would be managed through Team OpenOffice.org e.V.,
API and the community council. In case something like a market place
gets setup as well, "featured" consultants should also be listed
there together with a generic link back to full consultants list.
The amount of money that has to be paid for being listed could be
adjusted to the local value of the fee. I guess there is somewhere
a list that says how much someone can buy for $100 in different
places in the world, right?
I personally don't think that a wiki page is a good solution
because it's not easy to automatically process wiki pages, e.g.
in order to remove bad/old entries. A wiki page makes it simple
to add new content, but the content can also get outdated easily.
In addition, a wiki page would not allow filter mechanisms, AFAIK.
For example, I might want to search only for training companies
in Germany with a zip code starting with 4.
To me key questions are where we would host such a solution
(maybe on the same server as our OpenOffice.org wiki today!?),
and who could implement the necessary scripts/tooling.
Would we have someone for that?
Best regards,
Erwin
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