Hi
I think including the company office location is important because it
may be that people are looking for a company in a particular place (e.g
for tax reasons etc). I also think it would be good to reduce the
description size text to a standard length because in some cases it
looks like people have gone a bit overboard in describing what they do.
In one of Emmanuel's examples it was limited to a couple of lines with
links to their site, so being concise could help make the page more
standard.
As part of the work for the new website, one of the things I am in the
process of doing was running through this list and checking that these
providers do actually mention OFBiz on their websites - and if they
don't I have been either contacting them to add it or was going to
remove them from the list.
Thanks
Sharan
On 02/08/16 16:06, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
While we wait for the new site we could:
0) add the page discalimer as suggested; additionally, as Jacques pointed
out, this page is open to anyone who submits an ICLA and asks to be
registered as OFBiz contributor: no one is really reviewing the data
provided... we could mention this in the header of the page
1) merge the two lists into one
2) sort in alphabetical order
3) add a column with the number of committers; one with the number of
contributors; we could add also a column with the number of employees
working on OFBiz related projects; I don't think that this data would "unduly
advantage one commercial entity": the idea is to provide some insight about
the teams available to work on OFBiz specific projects
4) make the above columns sortable
5) Location: simply specify the location of the company's
offices/buildings; in the description the company can specify the countries
of operation
Jacopo
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi !
it came to my attention that this page :
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Service+Providers
might not be neutral enough, as it lists companies having Ofbiz
committers before any other companies. This is a problem, accordingly to
this :
"Apache is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which is a tax-exempt charity for the
public
good. As such, our projects must not unduly advantage one commercial
entity
over another -- otherwise, funding our projects would be a way to fund a
commercial activity without being taxed."
You can also have a look at
http://community.apache.org/projectIndependence :
"
Apache projects are managed independently
Apache projects must be managed independently, and PMCs must ensure that
they are acting in the best interests of the project as a whole. Note
that it is similarly important that the PMC clearly show this
independence within their project community. The perception of existing
and new participants within the community that the PMC is run
independently and without favoring any specific third parties over
others is important, to allow new contributors to feel comfortable both
joining the community and contributing their work. A community that
obviously favors one specific vendor in some exclusive way will often
discourage new contributors from competing vendors, which is an issue
for the long term health of the project.
"
I would suggest you rework this page to order the company using an
alphabetical order, not mentionning the fact taht some committers belong
to those companies.
I'm not sure that grouping companies by country is the right thing to
do, as some of them might provide support in many countries. One option
would be to add the list of countries a company provides support in on
the same line.
A disclaimer at the top of the page may also be added, informing users that
neither Apache nor the project endorse any company. You can have a look
at other project's page :
http://cxf.apache.org/commercial-cxf-offerings.html
http://directory.apache.org/commercial-support.html
Thanks !
Emmanuel Lécharny
