Hi Ari,
> "It is worth noting that this site is generated completely from
> Confluence and shows that it is possible to create more 'polished'
> sites than is often attempted from this wiki. Some of the
> techniques might be useful to other projects."
+1
> "The costs of the new web site design were sponsored by a company
> (http://www.ish.com.au) which uses Cayenne in its product."
-1
The new site is *very* nice and we should (and we do) acknowledge ish
contribution, still the emphasis is wrong IMO. Consider this - all
Cayenne committers and other ASF participants work somewhere. I can
say that ObjectStyle LLC. contributes money to Cayenne every month
(by me paying salary to myself), but this is sort of implied and is
not relevant for the board report purpose. People contributing to
Apache are assumed to be acting as individuals and if a company
covers the costs of development, it is specifically asked to submit a
release form (corporate CLA).
The fact that you actually lead the redesign project (as opposed to
just covering the costs), is what's worth mentioning.
> "The lack of a clear style guide for Apache project site design was
> noted, even as it comes to use of the feather logo. ASF might
> consider whether the goal is to have lots of individual looking
> projects or impose greater consistency."
-1
I don't think site design should be a matter of ASF policy. Maybe
only in part where it is related to the use of Apache logo, but
certainly nothing beyond that.
Andrus
On Feb 18, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
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> On 18/02/2007, at 11:16 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>
>>
>>> Also, is it worth bringing more attention to the fact that the
>>> site was done with Confluence? Seems that some of the things we
>>> learnt could be used in other Apache projects
>>
>> Probably yes.
>>
>> Andrus
>
> I added some notes with regard to the web site to this report and I
> hope you don't think it presumptuous that I also added the
> sponsorship of the new web site design by my company. This isn't
> about publicity for us (this really isn't our target
> demographic :-) but I think it important that the board understand
> the potential for sponsorship in lots of different forms: hopefully
> the ASF can leverage all the sponsorship they can get, both cash
> and in other ways. There is a huge amount of goodwill out there and
> not all of it is about programming.
>
> Ari Maniatis
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