Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Jul 10, 2008, at 22:42, Stephen Lau wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I'd like to add a VMware callout box on the homepage.  I'd also  
>> like
>> to add callout boxes advertising Red Hat Linux, and Microsoft Office
>> too.  They seem about as relevant and community-oriented as the
>> OpenStorage and VirtualBox boxes on the current homepage.
>
> Funny.
>
>> 1) As far as I can tell, there was no discussion on website-content or
>> website-discuss about either of these boxes. (I'm happy to be  
>> corrected
>> if I'm wrong)
>
> +1
>
>>
>> 2) The boxes aren't relevant to OpenSolaris, and are blatantly
>> advertising Sun products.  I thought we agreed to not let
>> opensolaris.org's homepage become an advertising medium for Sun  
>> products.
>
> Disagree partly.
> * The links for OpenStorage are wrong, they should be pointing at the  
> community properties on OpenSolaris. That community has news today and  
> it is appropriate to highlight them.


> * VirtualBox is a bona fides open source tool that OpenSolaris  
> community folks want to use.
> I think both are relevant topics. My concern is how they got there and  
> what the OpenStorage link says.

They, too, have a community page, rather than the SMI product page.

>>
>>
>> I'd like to request that these be taken down ASAP.
>
> -1
>
> I'd like to request that the OpenStorage box link to the community not  
> the Sun product page. I'd also like to request a review of the process  
> that got them there.

That should be true of both VirtualBox *and* OpenStorage, not just the
former.

-- Rich
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