[QUESTION] A "Thanks" page?

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

After reading http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking in details I noticed it's suggested to have a "Thanks" page

I looked at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Revised+Website+Structure+v2+-+Approved and noticed we have not a such page (@Emmanuel:
this is WIP for our current site replacement)

Maybe we could create one and put a link from the footer.

I notably read in the foundation link:
"May include a small third party logo for the donor or the goods, and may include a simple HTML link back to the donor."
"May include historical donations that were actively used in the past, but are not currently being used. These items should be marked as such."

I'm thinking about donated logos (HotWax and BrainFood), don't they deserve a special thanks? Of course other ideas may show up, maybe IntelliJ and
Packt Publishing but they rather donate at the ASF level...

Jacques

[Shi Jinghai-3]

+1 to add a "Thanks" page.

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发件人: Jacques Le Roux [mailto:[hidden email]]
发送时间: 2016年8月15日 17:37
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主题: [QUESTION] A "Thanks" page?

Hi,

After reading http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking in details I noticed it's suggested to have a "Thanks" page

I looked at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Revised+Website+Structure+v2+-+Approved and noticed we have not a such page (@Emmanuel:
this is WIP for our current site replacement)

Maybe we could create one and put a link from the footer.

I notably read in the foundation link:
"May include a small third party logo for the donor or the goods, and may include a simple HTML link back to the donor."
"May include historical donations that were actively used in the past, but are not currently being used. These items should be marked as such."

I'm thinking about donated logos (HotWax and BrainFood), don't they deserve a special thanks? Of course other ideas may show up, maybe IntelliJ and Packt Publishing but they rather donate at the ASF level...

Jacques

[Sharan-F]

Hi Jacques

I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we
don't have one already!). The page itself is something that doesn't have
to be on the website, it could just be a wiki page that is linked to
from the website and that could make it a lot easier to maintain.

Including a 'Thanks' link in the footer, would be OK for me but not
logos as we have faced a few challenges in the past because of various
company logos being displayed on our website home page, and anything in
the footer is also in the home page.

I don't see a problem adding logos the the 'Thanks' page itself

You have mentioned some names in your message but there are probably more...

Thanks
Sharan

On 15/08/16 11:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After reading http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking in
> details I noticed it's suggested to have a "Thanks" page
>
> I looked at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Revised+Website+Structure+v2+-+Approved 
> and noticed we have not a such page (@Emmanuel: this is WIP for our
> current site replacement)
>
> Maybe we could create one and put a link from the footer.
>
> I notably read in the foundation link:
> "May include a small third party logo for the donor or the goods, and
> may include a simple HTML link back to the donor."
> "May include historical donations that were actively used in the past,
> but are not currently being used. These items should be marked as such."
>
> I'm thinking about donated logos (HotWax and BrainFood), don't they
> deserve a special thanks? Of course other ideas may show up, maybe
> IntelliJ and Packt Publishing but they rather donate at the ASF level...
>
> Jacques
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 15/08/2016 à 12:37, Sharan Foga a écrit :
> Hi Jacques
>
> I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we don't have one already!). The page itself is something that doesn't have to
> be on the website, it could just be a wiki page that is linked to from the website and that could make it a lot easier to maintain.

+1

>
> Including a 'Thanks' link in the footer, would be OK for me but not logos as we have faced a few challenges in the past because of various company
> logos being displayed on our website home page, and anything in the footer is also in the home page.
>
> I don't see a problem adding logos the the 'Thanks' page itself

+1

>
> You have mentioned some names in your message but there are probably more...

Yep, it's open to discuss :)

Jacques

>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
> On 15/08/16 11:37, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After reading http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking in details I noticed it's suggested to have a "Thanks" page
>>
>> I looked at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Revised+Website+Structure+v2+-+Approved and noticed we have not a such page
>> (@Emmanuel: this is WIP for our current site replacement)
>>
>> Maybe we could create one and put a link from the footer.
>>
>> I notably read in the foundation link:
>> "May include a small third party logo for the donor or the goods, and may include a simple HTML link back to the donor."
>> "May include historical donations that were actively used in the past, but are not currently being used. These items should be marked as such."
>>
>> I'm thinking about donated logos (HotWax and BrainFood), don't they deserve a special thanks? Of course other ideas may show up, maybe IntelliJ and
>> Packt Publishing but they rather donate at the ASF level...
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>
>

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we
> don't have one already!).


We are actually properly implementing, as a project, the ASF request (done
a few years ago) to have a link to the ASF Thanks page from the main page
of our website:

http://ofbiz.apache.org/

(see the Thanks link in the bottom right).

We could start thinking about a custom "Thanks" page but I am a bit
concerned about the pressure the PMC may receive about what to publish on
it and my preference would be to postpone this discussion and for now
simply thank the official ASF wide sponsors.

Jacopo

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 16/08/2016 à 08:46, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we
>> don't have one already!).
> We could start thinking about a custom "Thanks" page but I am a bit
> concerned about the pressure the PMC may receive about what to publish on
> it and my preference would be to postpone this discussion and for now
> simply thank the official ASF wide sponsors.
>
> Jacopo

There is no hurry, one thing we could do is discuss the content of this new wiki page linked from the main site in the user ML
If we see too much pressure then indeed better to postpone or even forget...

Jacques

[Jacques Le Roux]

Le 16/08/2016 à 09:51, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :

> Le 16/08/2016 à 08:46, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we
>>> don't have one already!).
>> We could start thinking about a custom "Thanks" page but I am a bit
>> concerned about the pressure the PMC may receive about what to publish on
>> it and my preference would be to postpone this discussion and for now
>> simply thank the official ASF wide sponsors.
>>
>> Jacopo
>
> There is no hurry, one thing we could do is discuss the content of this new wiki page linked from the main site in the user ML
> If we see too much pressure then indeed better to postpone or even forget...
>
> Jacques

A link to this page from a "Thanks" wiki page would fit IMO http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/ofbiz/new-apache-ofbiz-logo/ it adds a nice history

Jacques

[Sharan-F]

Given this extra information – I think it would be good for the thanks link to be the official ASF wide sponsors.

We can still look at discussing and creating a wiki thanks page for the project itself as there seems to be some support for it and if agreed perhaps have a prominent link in the wiki navigation system.

Thanks
Sharan

On 2016-08-16 08:46 (+0200), Jacopo Cappellato <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sharan Foga <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think it would be good to have a 'Thanks' page (I'm surprised that we
> > don't have one already!).
>
>
> We are actually properly implementing, as a project, the ASF request (done
> a few years ago) to have a link to the ASF Thanks page from the main page
> of our website:
>
> http://ofbiz.apache.org/
>
> (see the Thanks link in the bottom right).
>
> We could start thinking about a custom "Thanks" page but I am a bit
> concerned about the pressure the PMC may receive about what to publish on
> it and my preference would be to postpone this discussion and for now
> simply thank the official ASF wide sponsors.
>
> Jacopo
>