Modeling PMC,
Today, I was looking at the open Achitectureware project and
in general the GMT project. I don’t usually provide feedback
on project specific branding and marketing but I thought compelled to do so in
this case.
IMHO, from a branding and marketing perspective, the open Architectureware
project looks out of place in the context of the Eclipse community.
They essentially look like they have parachuted in their existing
project into an Eclipse project web page. They actually also seem to have
another project web site http://www.openarchitectureware.org/.
I find it all very confusing and probably detrimental to the Eclipse
brand.
If I look at the GMT site, it seems like the open architectureware scenario
plays out again and again. I see lots of project logos and cool
names that seem to have very little to do with Eclipse? The perception I
am left with is that GMT is hovering up existing modeling projects but not
really integrating them into Eclipse? I think what you are doing is
creating an incubator for new modeling projects, which is great, but in my
opinion what you are communicating is something very different and will hurt
the perception of the overall modeling project.
As I said, I usually don’t provide this type of feedback but in this case
I just had to say something. I’d be happy to discuss further
and if you want.
Btw, when I went to try to find the PMC mailing list, the
link on this page http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/
points to https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/emft-dev
Ian
Ian Skerrett
Director of Marketing
Eclipse Foundation
613-224-9461 ext. 227
blog: ianskerrett.wordpress.com
