On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:11:51PM +0530, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > Greetings. > > A quick bit of background, esp. as I'm effectively a "long time reader, > first time poster" - I attended the collaboration conference over the past > weekend, became involved in a discussion about ways to market an open > source project, and subsequently volunteered myself to suggest/create a > page that folks could contribute to that is essentially a "list of > organizations using Apache Cloudstack." I am assuming the dev list is the > optimal place for this discussion.
Welcome Robyn! > > In my mind, there are a few benefits to providing this information: > * Potential users coming to the project page can see concrete examples of > real-world usage, which inspires confidence Yes - I do this for all projects to see the who's who (involved) and who's using the software and at what scale. That just adds to credibility and the glamour ;) no doubt! > * Potential developers coming to the project page can see that their > contributions would be well-used and loved. :) +1 > * Press folks seeking information about project usage can see a list of > deployments, confirming their suspicions of awesomeness. And with user stories decide on their own deployments and usage. CloudStack is used by a wide array of folks. > > It then occurred to me that it would be useful more generally to have a > basic Marketing wiki page. So I was bold and made a quick one, and you can > see it, and go crazy and edit it as well: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Marketing > > ** What to do if someone's organization is listed and someone gets > unhappy about that listing. Thoughts? I would think it best to accept that someone uses cloudstack if they have listed the usage in a blog/their company page. Or if they've brought its use to our wiki/lists themselves > Assuming I haven't totally done said toe-stepping, I figure a useful next > step would be to mail the users list and see if anyone on that list is > willing to add their name to such a list. (Side bonus: Some of them may be > adding stuff to the wiki for a first-time mini-contribution!) Yes please take this to the users lists as well. And thanks for being bold and stepping up to do this. -- Prasanna.,
