OK, so we have a few adjustments to the quotes. Two from vendors, and two from
the Apache CloudStack community.
I've added a teeny tweak to the sub-head ("faster/easier").
We'd like the blog post to be referenceable from apache.org, if at all possible.
Once that's in place, we can announce. As early as Wednesday <g>
Kind thanks,
Sally
- - -
Vice President Marketing & Publicity
Vice President Sponsor Relations
The Apache Software Foundation
Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected]
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:28, Sally Khudairi wrote:
> ...two minutes later ...
>
> "Apache CloudStack is a significant part of our Cloud portfolio right now –
> we run large deployments all over the world, often supporting critical
> customer applications. CloudMonkey is an invaluable tool for interacting with
> CloudStack-based clouds, and it's the go-to tool that we recommend to our
> customers when they want to use command-line interaction with our CloudStack
> platforms." --Robert van der Meulen, Product Strategy Lead, Leaseweb Global
> B.V.
>
> :-D
>
> I've got a draft at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ER9WcNpHjsZBjHV0dL0J6InTDPfhFZmhHFnpr1XyV8/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Is Andrija a member of the PMC? We can work around this, possibly.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> - - -
> Vice President Marketing & Publicity
> Vice President Sponsor Relations
> The Apache Software Foundation
>
> Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected]
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:17, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>> Thank you, but we also need some diversity here, please.
>>
>> The ASF is vendor-neutral and does not include multiple quotes from a single
>> vendor. Right now we only have testimonials from folks employed by ShapeBlue.
>>
>> How is it that we cannot find a single other user to participate?
>>
>> @Rohit, I'd like us to consider holding off on announcing this until Monday.
>> Let's give folks a chance to respond to the request.
>>
>> Is there a reason to rush this out for tomorrow? It's not CloudStack itself,
>> and it's been a few years since the last major release, so there *should* be
>> a bit of wiggle room here.
>>
>> Your thoughts on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sally
>>
>> - - -
>> Vice President Marketing & Publicity
>> Vice President Sponsor Relations
>> The Apache Software Foundation
>>
>> Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:14, Rohit Yadav wrote:
>>> Thanks Andrija. (add Sally on the thread)
>>>
>>> Kindly include Andrija's quote as well, for reference see the quote below.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rohit Yadav
>>>
>>> [email protected]
>>> www.shapeblue.com
>>> @shapeblue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Andrija Panic <[email protected]>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:26:45 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* RE: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review
>>> request
>>>
>>> Hi Sally,
>>>
>>> Incoming.... :
>>>
>>> Andrija Panic, who recently joined ShapeBlue as a Cloud Architect, said:
>>> "After many years of managing a production CloudStack deployments, I
>>> consider CloudMonkey a core tool in anyone's CloudStack toolkit, and now
>>> also being available for Windows makes me really happy. I can certainly see
>>> a major speed improvements, but also having backward compatibility is what
>>> is so great with this new release."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [email protected]
>>> www.shapeblue.com
>>> Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK
>>> @shapeblue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: 19 March 2019 13:33
>>> To: Giles Sirett <[email protected]>; Apache CloudStack Marketing
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review request
>>>
>>> Thanks, Giles. This is great.
>>>
>>> Ideally we'll have a quote from at least one other user... :-D
>>>
>>> I can ask someone from the CloudStack community if they can help. Not sure
>>> of their availability due to time zones, but I'll keep you posted.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Sally
>>>
>>> - - -
>>> Vice President Marketing & Publicity
>>> Vice President Sponsor Relations
>>> The Apache Software Foundation
>>>
>>> Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected]
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 05:23, Giles Sirett wrote:
>>> > Guys, if you want/need a quote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue commented "Cloudmonkey is a effective
>>> > tool for the operators of Cloudstack environments and it becomes
>>> > essential in large-scale Cloudstack deployments. Its great to see this
>>> > new version of cloudmonkey: having a CLI that can run on Windows
>>> > desktops as well as linux and Mac is important as we see more enterise
>>> > adoption of Apache Cloudstack"
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Kind regards
>>> > Giles
>>> >
>>> > [email protected]
>>> > www.shapeblue.com
>>> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]>
>>> > Sent: 19 March 2019 07:37
>>> > To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Apache
>>> > CloudStack Marketing <[email protected]>;
>>> > [email protected]
>>> > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review
>>> > request
>>> >
>>> > Hi Sally,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for reviews, please proceed with the changes you've advised.
>>> >
>>> > While I've requested people already for their quotes, we don't have
>>> > any so far. I've reached out to PMCs again today, so please include
>>> > any quotes if they do arrive on this thread (on marketing@ ML).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I think let's lock on the date, 20th March 2019. After you can confirm
>>> > the announcement, I'll send the email to various lists and put the
>>> > same on cloudstack asf blog.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Rohit Yadav
>>> >
>>> > Software Architect, ShapeBlue
>>> >
>>> > https://www.shapeblue.com
>>> >
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:46:17 AM
>>> > To: Rohit Yadav; [email protected]; Apache CloudStack
>>> > Marketing; [email protected]
>>> > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review
>>> > request
>>> >
>>> > Hello again, Rohit --following up on this:
>>> >
>>> > - we need a headline and subhead; how about
>>> >
>>> > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(r) CloudMonkey(r) v6.0
>>> >
>>> > Popular Open Source Command Line Interface Tool Simplifies Apache
>>> > CloudStack Configuration and Management
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > - we'll need to update the ASF boilerplate. I can do that on my end.
>>> >
>>> > If we're aiming to announce on 20 March, we'll need to lock in the
>>> > copy no later than 6PM ET (UTC -5) on Tuesday 19 March. Do you have
>>> > additional testimonials to include?
>>> >
>>> > Are there any outstanding issues that I can help with?
>>> >
>>> > Kind thanks,
>>> > Sally
>>> >
>>> > - - -
>>> > Vice President Marketing & Publicity
>>> > Vice President Sponsor Relations
>>> > The Apache Software Foundation
>>> >
>>> > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected]
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [email protected]
>>> > www.shapeblue.com
>>> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 04:56, Rohit Yadav wrote:
>>> >
>>> > All,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Kindly review the release announcement for CloudMonkey v6.0.0, and
>>> > also share your quotes/comments that we can use in the release wrt
>>> > cloudmonkey v6.0:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ### START ###
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > <Date: 20 March 2019> - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the
>>> > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350
>>> > Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache(r)
>>> > CloudStack(r) CloudMonkey v6.0, the latest version of the turnkey
>>> > enterprise Cloud orchestration platform's command line interface tool.
>>> >
>>> > Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy
>>> > IaaS platform used for rapidly creating private, public, and hybrid
>>> > Cloud environments. Thousands of large-scale public Cloud providers
>>> > and enterprise organizations use Apache CloudStack to enable billions
>>> > of dollars worth of business transactions annually across their clouds.
>>> > Apache CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is the latest major release since the
>>> > previous major 5.x release in September 2013. CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is a
>>> > rewrite of the original tool in Go programming language, and can be
>>> > used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool that
>>> > simplifies CloudStack configuration and management.
>>> >
>>> > Some of the new features and major changes include:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > * Rewrite in Go, ships as single binary for Linux, Mac, and Windows
>>> > * Drop-in replacement for legacy Python-based cloudmonkey
>>> > * About 5-20x faster than legacy Python-based cloudmonkey
>>> > * Interactive UX for parameter and arg completion and selection
>>> > * JSON is the default output format
>>> > * New column based output
>>> > * Enable debug mode using set debug true option, file-based logging
>>> > removed
>>> > * Per server profile based API cache
>>> > * New syntax arg=@/path/to/file to pass the content of file as API
>>> > argument value similar to curl
>>> > * Improve help docs using -h argument
>>> > * Removed: XML output, coloured output, several set options
>>> >
>>> > "This release is the work of over one year of effort and driven by the
>>> > people operating CloudStack clouds," said Rohit Yadav, Apache
>>> > CloudStack CloudMonkey v6.0 author, and release manager. "I would like
>>> > to thank the contributors across all of these organizations for
>>> > supporting this release, which reflects both the user-driven nature of
>>> > our community and the Apache CloudStack project's commitment to
>>> > continue to be the most stable, easily deployable, scalable Open
>>> > Source platform for IaaS. Along with ease of installation, usage and
>>> > availability of cross-platform dependency-free builds including
>>> > Windows builds, v6.0 brings many changes and optimizations such as
>>> > more interactive shell for parameter completion, faster API requests
>>> > processing, server profile specific API caching, improved API help
>>> > docs and a new syntax to pass content of files as API parameter argument."
>>> > The background and story of v6.0 effort was recently blogged here:
>>> > https://www.shapeblue.com/whats-coming-in-the-new-cloudmonkey-6-0/
>>> >
>>> > <stick more quotes from community members, kindly share your
>>> > comments!>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Downloads and Documentation
>>> >
>>> > The official source code for CloudMonkey v6.0.0 can be downloaded from
>>> > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. The community-maintained
>>> > builds are available at the project's Github release page at
>>> > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/releases
>>> >
>>> > CloudMonkey's usage is documented at
>>> > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/wiki
>>> >
>>> > Availability and Oversight
>>> >
>>> > Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0
>>> > and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the
>>> > project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's
>>> > day-to-day operations, including community development and product
>>> > releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved
>>> > with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and
>>> > https://twitter.com/CloudStack
>>> >
>>> > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
>>> >
>>> > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than
>>> > 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the
>>> > world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's
>>> > meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 680
>>> > individual Members and 6,500 Committers across six continents
>>> > successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade
>>> > software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of
>>> > software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the
>>> > community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring
>>> > initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference,
>>> > trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable
>>> > organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors
>>> > including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg,
>>> > Budget Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast,
>>> > Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, iSIGMA, ODPi,
>>> > LeaseWeb, Microsoft, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red
>>> > Hat, Target, Union Investment, and Yahoo. For more information, visit
>>> > http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
>>> >
>>> > (c) The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache
>>> > CloudStack", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks
>>> > of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other
>>> > countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their
>>> > respective owners.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ### END ###
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Rohit Yadav
>>> >
>>> > Software Architect, ShapeBlue
>>> >
>>> > https://www.shapeblue.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [email protected]
>>> > www.shapeblue.com
>>> > @shapeblue
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>
