I simply meant as an OSS community I do not want us to be perceived as cherry picking 3rd party content we display, with out a public criteria. That way there is no negative blowback.
IE: we publish our selection criteria. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kinsella" <[email protected]> To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:38:56 PM Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? Endorsements are something somebody does on their blog. I don't think presence on the ACS page has anything to do with that (and should be noted clearly - same as for classes, whatever). Another reason this could be good - being able to list one or more books on the site shows a level of maturity that both folks are starting to write thicker documents about ACS, and also that publishers feel there's a market for such a product. John On May 22, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Kelcey Jamison Damage <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I agree with Noah, We have to take the good with the bad otherwise we are inadvertently endorsing specific works as an organization. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:55:31 PM Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? The minute we do that though, we start to endorse third-party works, and that is a can of worms. On 22 May 2013 20:50, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 10:37 PM, Ahmad Emneina wrote: This strikes me as being along the same lines as having a nascar-esqe badging page. IMO the more books, the merrier. No specific endorsements. The flip side of this is that many tech books these days are truly awful. I'd rather point to books we actually recommend and feel are accurate than just drive traffic to any CloudStack title. (I spent quite a lot of time reviewing tech books years ago, and there's a very, very wide variance in quality out there.) Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ -- NS
