+1 very well put.
> On 4 Feb 2015, at 8:33 am, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone --I wanted to step in and clarify some items.
>
> Daan wanted to know the opinion of ASF Marketing & Publicity; below is my
> position as its Vice President.
> 1) the ASF is vendor-neutral. This means that all Apache projects are so as
> well.
>
> 2) showcasing successful implementations, deployments, and use cases is
> important in demonstrating project diversity, particularly in terms of "who
> uses you?".
>
>
> 3) sharing software vendor/service provider/user progress is A Very Good
> Thing, and is important in demonstrating project robustness, particularly in
> terms of "how are people using you?". If doing so includes items such as
> Ikoula sharing news of their recent award, Shapeblue's latest consulting
> offering, or Citrix's new product development, there should be no reason that
> can't be freely shared amongst our community, preferably on this list. In
> preparation of Giles' briefing with Forrester tomorrow I was able to list
> more than a hundred organizations that are using CloudStack --how/where else
> would we be able to learn about this?
> 4) some ways that Apache CloudStack can showcase capabilities/successes
> whilst maintaining vendor neutrality can be through tweeting success stories.
> Examples of what we've tweeted as part of the @TheASF's "Did You Know?"
> campaign include:
>
>
> - Did you know that Apache #Tika + #OODT power #NASA's just-launched #SMAP
> instrument ground data processing system?
> - Did you know that Facebook recently completed a 30 petabyte migration using
> #Apache #Hadoop and #Hive?
> - Did you know that #Apache #Hadoop, #MapReduce, #Mahout, and #Pig form the
> anti-spam analytic platform for Yahoo!Mail?
>
> - Did you know that @Apache_OODT is an integral part of the data
> infrastructure for @SKA_telescope, the world's largest radio telescope?
> - Did you know that @CommonCrawl use #Apache #Nutch to crawl billions of Web
> pages in a Cloud environment? - Did you know that you can now run
> @googlechrome apps across #mobile platforms using #Apache #Cordova?
> - Did you know that #Apache #Tomcat powers 15 TB of data daily for
> Aftonbladet.se, the largest website in Sweden?
> - Did you know that #Apache #OpenOffice provides $21M in value per day?
> - Did you know that #Apache #OODT helps power @MarsCuriosity downstream data
> archiving for #NASA Planetary Data System?
> - Did you know that with #Apache PDFBox you can create, manipulate, and
> extract content from PDF documents?
>
>
> ... and so on. There are many great stories to tell with Apache CloudStack!
> Let's celebrate that.
>
> 5) CloudStack isn't the first project to come to the ASF with an
> already-established user base. We've had dozens of projects originating from
> a particular organization, and there are often growing pains as the project
> settles in.
>
> I'm confident you'll agree we have a talented, passionate, diverse community
> that stands firmly behind an exceptional, robust, proven product.
>
> Yes, the request to promote a vendor's product on Twitter was in error.
>
> Let's remember that we will need these success stories as well as access to
> those working tirelessly behind scenes to help bolster the CloudStack
> community through MeetUps, Collaboration Conference, and other
> outreach/education events.
>
> I know we all want to do the right thing. Let's acknowledge this as a lesson
> learned and move on. There are so many bigger things ahead for us. Go Apache!
>
> If there are any confidential items that need addressing, please forward to
> the CloudStack press list, or to me at the ASF Marketing & Publicity
> <[email protected]>.
>
> Thanks,
> Sally
> = = = = =
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>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Steve Wilson <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 14:00
> Subject: Re: Latest Blog Post
>
>
> Honestly, whether the official CloudStack twitter account posts this isn¹t
> the point. That¹s preaching to the choir anyway.
>
> I¹m doing my best right now to show that Citrix supports Cloudstack ‹ and
> I did put ³Apache CloudStack" in the first sentence of the blog! I will
> say the overall tone with respect sniping at people trying to support the
> project here is disappointing.
>
>
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
>
>> On 2/2/15, 9:28 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 03-Feb-2015, at 10:04 am, Mark Hinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was on the road and asked Karen to do create some tweets especially
>>> since this blog was partially in response to lat months¹s thread about
>>> Citrix not supporting CloudStack. I thought we promoted any success
>>> based on CloudStack whether it¹s a proprietary fork, storage solution or
>>> other tool. I¹d be lying if I didn¹t have an opinion but would be
>>> curious to see how many people agree with Rohit. If there¹s a majority
>>> opinion I¹d support whatever the group wants. It seems the phrase
>>> ³Damned if we do, Damned if we don¹t² applies.
>>
>> The blog talks about CCP and does not talk anything about ACS - the
>> project or its community. The blog still has a ³powered by Apache
>> CloudStack² sticker but should we promoting anything with such stickers?
>> I would be happy if it still could be edited to add a link to the project
>> and add a line or two like all past successes (proprietary forks or tools
>> or solutions) have done.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rohit Yadav
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