I was on the road and asked Karen to do create some tweets especially since this blog was partially in response to lat months’s thread about Citrix not supporting CloudStack. I thought we promoted any success based on CloudStack whether it’s a proprietary fork, storage solution or other tool. I’d be lying if I didn’t have an opinion but would be curious to see how many people agree with Rohit. If there’s a majority opinion I’d support whatever the group wants. It seems the phrase “Damned if we do, Damned if we don’t” applies. 

[I am referring to the Negative Press thread started on the 14th - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-marketing/201501.mbox/browser]

Mark 



On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com> wrote:

Steve - Good post on CCP.

Karen - why should we be promoting any closed source fork on CloudStack’s twitter account? As long as a fork is closed source and we don’t have the four freedoms to run it like we wish, study the code, modify, and redistribute -- we should not care. If the blog could be modified to promote the Apache CloudStack project then it would be alright to share it on the official social media accounts.

On 02-Feb-2015, at 9:55 pm, Karen Vuong <karen.vuong@citrix.com> wrote:

Steve – nice blog post!

Chip/David – could you help upload a few tweets that I’ve created to the @CloudStack Twitter account? Spreadsheet:https://citrix.sharefile.com/d/s357c5f8e3754958b

Help promote:

I’ve created a few click-to-tweets. When you get a chance today, please feel free to help promote this blog post!

Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Gs45e

Building a carrier-grade cloud with @Citrix CloudPlatform - powered by Apache #CloudStack clds.co/1Ajf7ZM #cloudstackworks #xenserver

Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/aa7B5
Powered by #CloudStack. CCP is touted by many as the most mature & robust option for building an #IaaS cloud clds.co/1Ajf7ZM @Citrix

Thanks,

Karen

From: Steve Wilson [mailto:steve.wilson@citrix.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 8:47 AM
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Latest Blog Post

Hi All,

Here’s my latest blog post on Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache Cloudstack).  Please feel free to share this:

http://blogs.citrix.com/2015/01/30/carrier-grade-cloud-with-citrix-cloudplatform-4-5/

Thanks,

-Steve

Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
M. +91 88 262 30892 | rohit.yadav@shapeblue.com
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