On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Raphael Bircher <rbirc...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi at all > > We allready talked about crowdfunding and generaly agree, that this will be a > good idea. I will start at the next time a p'roject at a crowdfunding > platform to rise money for a LTS Version for 4.0.2. So we can still support > Mac OS X 10.6 downward. I plane to back port security fixes and really > important bug fixes. The costs will be about $2000. This just for information. > > The big question is, how we handle such projects? My proposal: > > - Create a site with open / in programming / finished crowd funding projects. > - Make a blog about it if the organizer whish that. > Other Ideas? >
The subject is "promoting" such projects. I think others have stated correctly that there are restrictions on use of Apache resources for hosting binaries, etc. I think that should be clear. On the promotion side the general rule is that the PMC should look be looking at things like: 1) What benefits the public? 2) What benefits the ecosystem? 3) What is fair and equal treatment to all participants in the ecosystem? 4) What preserve the independence of AOO and the ASF, legally and in terms of brand and reputation, from commercial activities? I think the example of how we treat consultants and 3rd party ports is a good example here. We list all 3rd party ports and consults, on our website, so long as they follow some rules regarding trademark use. You can look at Adfinis Sygroup for another possibility. We did a blog post on their Solaris port work: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris Note: This was not an advertisement. It was a blog post discussing some interesting work occurring in the ecosystem, and the blog discussed a mix of topics that were interesting to our users. As a side-effect it may have had promotional value for Adfinis Sygroup, but that is true any time a company participates in open source. Heck, it is even true when individuals participate in open source, you can grow your professional reputation. This is all fine. We just need to avoid something that reads like an advertisement. A good way to do that would be to have another project members, someone not involved in the commercial side, ask the interview questions and write the blog post. Regards, -Rob > Greetings Raphael > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
