On May 22, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> In general, we should be wary about making endorsements. I've not had much > experience with this at the ASF, but I know that as an organisation, we > seem to be quite reticent about it. I guess the reasons boil down to: if > you endorse one person, project, book, etc then lots of other people are > going to clamour for endorsement. Which leads us to our second problem, > endorsing things implies we don't endorse other things, which could leave > people feeling upset and "out of the club". If we had a wiki page with a Let me put it bluntly. IMHO wiki pages are a death sentence, nobody will find that information. If it's not featured on the website then there is no point talking about it. > list of third-party CloudStack resources/books/etc, then people can add to > it as they see fit. I think it should be obvious that this is a community > maintained resource, and not an official project edict. (Caveat: we will > have to monitor this page for spam and too much blatant self-promotion or > advertising.) > > > On 22 May 2013 22:44, Kelcey Jamison Damage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > NS
