I think its reasonable consider creating some area on NHForge that helps increase awareness of commercial offerings in the "NH space" so long as a few things are made very clear:
a) they are commercial offerings (logos/links not co-mingled with those of companies that *support* NH directly) b) *none* of these commercial offerings are in any way 'endorsed' by NH c) its made clear to everyone what the 'process' is for any other / future commercial entities to submit their own logos, etc. to this new area for inclusion in the list (so that no vendor feels 'excluded' from this area) There needs to be a balance here IMO between wanting to make potential NH adopters aware of the available commercial offerings that can help make their NH 'experience' better, smoother, (whatever!) and not having NHForge become a marketing site for commercial NH tooling/add- ons. If there was a totally separate 'area' (page, tab, whatever) that merely listed such things (probably in alphabetical order or something that didn't imply any kind of "ranking") and provided for a logo, title, and summary description of the tool (along with a link to the vendor's product page) I would have no issue with this. Its when it inadvertently makes it appear as if the NH project 'endorses' one or more commercial products or the commercial vendors are co-mingled with commercial entities that have provided support, tools, etc. directly to the project that I think we cross a line that's a bad idea. Just my two cents here. -Steve B. On Jul 16, 8:59 pm, Gareth <[email protected]> wrote: > Shouldn't our focus (all of us) be to grow and promote the entire > NHibernate ecosystem? A stronger ecosystem benefits everyone. When > managers and decision makers need to evaluate whether NHibernate is > well supported and growing - what better way than to show that the > core-development, community, tooling and commercial support are > flourishing. > > Where can the entire NHibernate universe be promoted well? I would > have thought that NHForge would be perfect - that's why we were all > asked a while back to add links to NHForge on our websites, which we > did (http://www.slyce.com/Links/). It would be good to have all the > links to tools (open-source and commercial) in one place. People have > different needs - some only like open-source and won't touch > commercial, others want what commercial tools offer. At the moment new > users need to google for these things. > > Let's make it easier for people to adopt NHibernate. > > Gareth Hayter. > Slyce Software -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
