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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 23:03 -0500, John Dickinson wrote:
>> So you're looking for a place to point marketing? We already have
>> http://openstack.org/projects/ (which has a long list on it) and the
>> wiki has plenty of space to add new pages, if necessary. However, the
>> original proposal is not about a marketing landing page to promote an
>> openstack ecosystem. The original proposal
>> (http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/3) is about a place to
>> centralize code for various projects that consume openstack core
>> projects.
>
> I like this idea: having a 'forge' for developers interested in *using*
> OpenStack to find tools, inspiration and a wider sense of community.
> This proved to be good also in my past experience, like Jay's. If I
> understand the proposal, we're talking of things similar to SugarCRM
> Forge, Funambol Forge, Jasper Forge, MySQL Forge, right?

As I understood the proposal, yes.

-jay