Re: [Firebird-website] Wake up email

[Carlos H. C. <li...@wa...>]

Just an initial idea, that can be discussed and enhanced:

1) Open Source tools should be listed for free
2) Free (but not open source) should be listed also for free, but
   separated from Open Source tools.
3) Commercial would be listed without fee, if author is regular Sponsor or FF
   member (voting member minimum), otherwise, fee is required. If
   no one meets the requirements, a small note can be included in the
   page, like: "You can Google for a list of commercial third party
   tools"

Page structure could be

Open Source tools
...
Commercial tools (meeting the above requirements)
...
Free tools
...

We don't have enough Open Source tools for all "tools categories" so,
including free (but not open source) tools will give visitor more options.

It would be bad if visitor comes to page to search for some tool (ie:
administration tool, replicator, etc), and find none available. As we
know, Firebird doesnt include any of these tools in the installer, so
we need to make it easy for the new user to find the third party
options.

[]s
Carlos H. Cantu
www.FireBase.com.br - www.firebirdnews.org
www.warmboot.com.br - blog.firebase.com.br

AK> Milan,

AK> thanks for good point.

>>BTW, this could be a good revenue source for the Foundation, to ask a
>>small annual fee from commercial tool developers to list their products
>>on this page.

AK> I am not sure  - why fee should be small? :)

AK> There is a couple of issues regarding commercial activities in FF,
AK> so initially at the first version of the site we will list only FlameRobin.



AK> Regards,
AK> Alexey Kovyazin






>> Alexey Kovyazin wrote:
>>> To report any problem, please create issues at Tracker.firebirdsql.org
>>> in the Web site section http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/WEB
>>> (issues with wrong section will be not considered).
>>>
>>> Please feel free to ask any questions.
>> I already created a tracker item for the following, but maybe it's worth
>> discussing here:
>>
>> It seems to me that the website is missing the page with links to GUI
>> administration tools.
>>
>> Anyone interested in trying out Firebird would come to the website
>> expecting to get a functioning database server and graphical
>> administration tool. I understand that tools are not developed by the
>> project, but I believe it is very important to list some graphical
>> administration tools on the website. Otherwise, many people would come
>> to a wrong conclusion that this is a console-mode only product and
>> dismiss it without discovering all the features.
>>
>> If you do not want to promote commercial tools, please include open
>> source tools like FlameRobin. You can add an "administration tools"
>> section to the "Downloads" page. The "administration tools" page would
>> have a proper warning that "tools listed here are 3rd party tools and
>> not developed by the project" or something like that.
>>
>> BTW, this could be a good revenue source for the Foundation, to ask a
>> small annual fee from commercial tool developers to list their products
>> on this page.
>>
>> Regards,
>>


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