On 2018-01-17 8:34 AM, Mike Croft
wrote:
I would be interested to
know more about the intentions of Oracle and others on the PMC
to contribute *marketing* effort to EE4J. Have there been any
discussions around this?
The MicroProfile recently
went through a minor rebranding which involved the collaboration
of a few vendors and then an open vote. It was led very ably by Cesar, though other vendors
contributed.
My question is - who is
planning to spearhead the marketing effort for the new EE4J
brand, and is there a commitment from all PMC members to
contribute time to marketing?
I don't think a rebranding
will necessarily hurt Java EE, but a poor effort may. The
engineering effort will likely be stalled for many projects
while legals are sorted, but the marketing effort is, in my
opinion, even more important at this stage and should be given
equal emphasis.
Mike,
Just a point of clarification on that. At the Eclipse Foundation
we don't think of PMCs as doing marketing. PMCs are focused on the
needs of the projects.
We use working groups made up of member companies to complement
the project activities. See Eclipse IoT as an example.
We are working on a draft charter to this working group and we
should have that available for public review next week.
In the end it is many of the same companies as represented on the
PMC, so the distinction may be minor. I just wanted to make sure
that was clear.
