Gluster users - Jun 2014 - GlusterFS Consultants & Support companies page

Hi all,

Thinking of creating a "GlusterFS Consultants & Support companies"
page
on the website, with entries/links to the various places around which
do GlusterFS support.

  eg supporting GlusterFS on (say) Debian, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, etc.

This would help our Community members (not running RHEL :>) to locate
support services much easier.

As a first thought on what such page should include:

 * Company name + link to web site
 * Countries / timezones supported
 * Target audience (eg enterprise, small business, etc)
 * General description (free form text)
 * Contact details (website page, person to contact, whatever)

Any thoughts?  Suggestions on places/people to include?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

--
GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org

An open source, distributed file system scaling to several
petabytes, and handling thousands of clients.

My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift

Despite the good intentions behind this idea I see a number of problems.
Here are a couple for starters:

1 - In what order will they be displayed, bearing in mind that anyone
not listed near the top is unlikely to get any benefit from such listing.

2 - Once this starts there will most likely be those who are prepared to
pay/bribe for preferential listing. How will that be addressed. I'm sure
the income would be appreciated but where does it end and how would it
be controlled?

Regards,
John


On 07/06/14 06:23, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thinking of creating a "GlusterFS Consultants & Support
companies" page
> on the website, with entries/links to the various places around which
> do GlusterFS support.
>
>   eg supporting GlusterFS on (say) Debian, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, etc.
>
> This would help our Community members (not running RHEL :>) to locate
> support services much easier.
>
> As a first thought on what such page should include:
>
>  * Company name + link to web site
>  * Countries / timezones supported
>  * Target audience (eg enterprise, small business, etc)
>  * General description (free form text)
>  * Contact details (website page, person to contact, whatever)
>
> Any thoughts?  Suggestions on places/people to include?
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> --
> GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org
>
> An open source, distributed file system scaling to several
> petabytes, and handling thousands of clients.
>
> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift
>
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On 06/06/2014 01:23 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thinking of creating a "GlusterFS Consultants & Support
companies" page
> on the website, with entries/links to the various places around which
> do GlusterFS support.
>
>    eg supporting GlusterFS on (say) Debian, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, etc.
>
> This would help our Community members (not running RHEL :>) to locate
> support services much easier.
>
> As a first thought on what such page should include:
>
>   * Company name + link to web site
>   * Countries / timezones supported
>   * Target audience (eg enterprise, small business, etc)
>   * General description (free form text)
>   * Contact details (website page, person to contact, whatever)
>
> Any thoughts?  Suggestions on places/people to include?
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
This should be farmed out to some other company and linked-to. Isn't 
there someone like Angie's List for contractors (though preferably not 
Angie's List) that does that?