David N. Welton wrote: > [ changed subject to discuss topic more abstractly ] > > > I would agree with this if there was no immediate percieved benefit > > when you are in Incubator, unfortunately it seems projects under > > incubation are still perceived by the larger community as endorsed by > > Apache. > > I think that the further away from something you get, the more vague > your perceptions are. For instance, there are a lot of people who still > think that Apache == The Web Server.
Well, i am not a marketing person, but i know that you are onto something important there. A while ago i started helping to tidy up the top-level apache.org documentation (i.e. / and /foundation/ and /dev/). I became alarmed at how much documentation was still talking in terms of "Apache, the webserver" where really it should now mean "The ASF". Obviously not updated for a long time. Some of this has been addressed by referring to "Apache HTTP Server" instead. However there are plenty of extant misleading statements. -David > When seen from afar, I'd tend to > agree that a move to "something.apache.org" is going to be noticed by > most people who are not looking carefully as "project now associated > with apache.org". > > This is a theory of mine that seems to be born out by talking with > people, but it's not really an exact science. What say the marketing folks? > > -- > David N. Welton > - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ > > Linux, Open Source Consulting > - http://www.dedasys.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
