On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 4:58 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Nathan Hartman wrote on Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:53 -0500:
> > I'd like to showcase testimonials on the website (with the permission
> > of those who provide them, of course), in a new page called something
> > like Subversion Success Stories or maybe just Testimonials. The title
> > isn't important right now. The important point is that we are trusted
> > by commercial and government customers and are a component in various
> > commercial products, and I would like to let the world know that.
> >
> > Is there any legitimate, substantial reason why we should not have
> > such a page?
>
> The ASF's non-profit / 501(c)3 status requires that it be
> vendor-neutral, so we'll want to have documented criteria for who is
> allowed to be added to the page, and add anyone who meets them.
Regarding ASF requirements, before I do anything, I will find out what
requirements we must meet. I am pretty sure we're allowed to do it
[1].
My question is: Does the community *want* (or at least, is the
community *neutral* about) having a "testimonials" / "success stories"
/ "who is using us" type of page? I would like to do it, as part of a
much larger work I'm doing in staging-ng.
First, with permission, quoth danielsh in a private conversation, who
wanted to discuss this point on dev@:
> It might make us look more corporatey, though? I.e., a page of
> testimonials, that lists features but not known missing features)?
My reply to that: Who can sponsor development?
I want to appeal to corporatey users *and* to geeks like us. Yes,
there's a fine balance here. We will be abundantly clear that we are a
100% open community-driven project. A testimonials/success stories
page is a great place to ask for more community involvement in the
development process.
[1]:
ASF projects with testimonials:
https://beam.apache.org
http://bloodhound.apache.org (Tweets)
http://buildr.apache.org ("Why Buildr Rocks")
https://camel.apache.org/community/user-stories/
http://cassandra.apache.org ("Proven")
https://cayenne.apache.org/success-stories.html
http://cloudstack.apache.org ("What are people saying?")
https://couchdb.apache.org
http://directory.apache.org
http://drill.apache.org/poweredBy/
https://ofbiz.apache.org
http://opennlp.apache.org/powered-by-opennlp.html (Air New Zealand testimonial)
http://parquet.apache.org/adopters/
http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/index.html
http://phoenix.apache.org/who_is_using.html
http://pivot.apache.org (Actian Corporation testimonial)
http://poi.apache.org/casestudies.html ("Case Studies")
http://river.apache.org/user-doc/success-stories.html
http://samza.apache.org/case-studies/ ("Case Studies")
Also, ASF projects with a "Who is using us" page (including commercial
customers):
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Powered+By+Bigtop
http://cocoon.apache.org/1365_1_1.html ("Who uses Cocoon?")
https://cordova.apache.org ("Cordova apps showcase")
http://druid.apache.org/druid-powered
http://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/ ("Who is using Dubbo")
http://eagle.apache.org
http://flex.apache.org/community-showcase.html
https://flink.apache.org/poweredby.html
https://freemarker.apache.org/poweredBy.html
http://griffin.apache.org
http://groovy-lang.org/ecosystem.html
http://jclouds.apache.org
http://kafka.apache.org/powered-by
http://karaf.apache.org/stories.html
http://kylin.apache.org
http://libcloud.apache.org
http://oodt.apache.org
http://openmeetings.apache.org/OurUsers.html
http://apr.apache.org/projects.html
http://pulsar.apache.org/powered-by/
http://shiro.apache.org
http://skywalking.apache.org (and
https://github.com/apache/skywalking/blob/master/docs/powered-by.md)
http://spark.apache.org/powered-by.html
http://trafficserver.apache.org/users.html
http://turbine.apache.org/common/powered.html
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/UIMA/Powered+by+Apache+UIMA
http://usergrid.apache.org/community/#deployments
http://wicket.apache.org
Yes, I have been studying all the ASF project websites. :-)
Nathan
P.S., incidentally, I think we should also have an "Integrations"
page. We do (and can) integrate with a lot of stuff out there.
Received on 2020-01-26 16:52:05 CET