Re: [turnkeylinux-users] [ubuntu-marketing] new project builds Ubuntu based appliances for specific niche roles

[Liraz S. <li...@tu...>]

Hi Alan,

> I think you have a nice idea here...

Thanks!

> I'm not sure how Canonical will feel about the look of your website - it 
> does look "very similar" to Ubuntu's...

Canonical published the theme for the official Ubuntu website and we
used that. The theme is also used on other Ubuntu related sites (I think
that was the point).

Just to be on the safe side we also contacted a couple of Canonical
employees (Jono Bacon and Daniel Holbach) who are liaisons to the
community to give them a heads up before we launched.

> One question that immediately springs to mind is how do you plan to 
> finance your project?

Right now thats not an issue. Thanks to resources like sourceforge and
Launchpad opensource projects don't really have to worry that much about
financing for their supporting infrastructure (e.g., otherwise paying
for the bandwidth for the downloads could be an issue)

It also helps that our employer has an enlightened attitude regarding
opensource (you can't just take, you have to give back too!)

>  From my own perspective, I'd love to see a couple of other appliances 
> added to your portfolio:
> 
> * Asterisk
> * A Tomcat platform with optional installs of Alfresco (Ubuntu will be 
> adding this to their repo soon) and or the Cosmo Calendar sever and/or 
> the Zimbra server (although I am not sure about the license terms for 
> Zimbra so this one might not be possible).
> * Also, how about a development server appliance? (SVN, Git, Bzr...)

Great ideas! After we work out the kinks with our current beta
appliances (see our project blueprints for details), we'll probably do
all of them. Anything that has an opensource license is fair game.

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Cheers,
Liraz