On Wed, May 29, 2013, at 07:04 PM, John Blossom wrote: > Upayavira, > > You raise a very interesting point with OpenOffice. I note that there is > an > openoffice.org Web site to help promote this product. Wave would benefit > from a similar branded domain. Wave.org is owned by Google, so as a part > of > this greater exercise it would help if the appropriate body were to take > over that domain, if Google were inclined to do so. That would certainly > help to align the marketing of Wave appropriately with other open source > platforms. > > I can see where this could work out well, and that Apache could provide a > suitable framework. The one difference that I'd like to have people > consider is that whereas OpenOffice focuses on a specific product, what > we're proposing for Wave is a platform that would enable multiple client > products to be developed - as well as "demo" apps, presumably for both PC > and mobile devices. From that perspective, a hypothetical wave.org might > wind up being a hybrid of openoffice.org and linux.org. Linux.org > includes > links to popular distributions, education and opportunities for Linux > partner organizations such as Ubuntu to promote their products and > services. So if that sort of thing seemed to fit into the ASF framework, > then perhaps that's a good solution. I am not sure how the administration > of OpenOffice works within the Apache framework, so if you could forward > a > link to appropriate information I'd be glad to educate myself.
OpenOffice came into Apache as a very mature project with its own domain. Generally, Apache projects are encouraged to use a $project.apache.org domain name - wave would be http://wave.apache.org upon graduation. I recognise that Apache would likely only be responsible for reference implementations, whether client or server. Upayavira
