On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Prasanna Santhanam < prasanna.santha...@citrix.com> wrote:
> 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. > Okay, it would appear that there is enough consensus to move ahead to the users list - or at least, nobody saying this is a terrible idea :) That said - it would be great to have a first example that someone else has populated. I took the liberty of breaking out the "list" page into a separate child page under Marketing - mostly to remove any barriers for people wanting to add their name (no longer have to scroll down the marketing page). https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/nh7VAQ If anyone on *THIS* list would like to help kick the users/organizations list off right - that would be awesome. But I'll hit up the users list as well now. Cheers, -Robyn > > > And thanks for being bold and stepping up to do this. > > > -- > Prasanna., >
