Re: [Firebird-website] Wake up email

[Helen B. <he...@ii...>]

At 06:55 AM 30/03/2011, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:
>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.

This sounds pretty good to me as a start point!  

A suggestion, though - we could have *all* of the categories for open source tools (remember, open source doesn't have to be "free of charge" or "non-commercial") which may bring some lesser-known ones out of the woodwork.  "We don't know what we don't know", to quote the Lifestyle mantra.

Helen