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From: Alex Salazar <alex@alexsalazar.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:38:31 -0800
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Subject: Re: Shiro "Powered by page"
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Well, we could get creative and call it "Secured By".  Shiro is a security
framework after all.


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Craig L Russell
<craig.russell@oracle.com>wrote:

> Hi Les,
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote:
>
>  Sounds good to me - something showing prospective users that there is
>> growing community only helps adoption, which in turn continues to
>> benefit the community.
>>
>> But should it be called 'powered by'?  That might sound like things
>> that are used within Shiro instead of the other way around (i.e.
>> 'Shiro is powered by ..."). Maybe calling it 'Adoption' or something
>> similar would be better?  But in the end, I don't really have a
>> preference one way or the other :)
>>
>
> Traditionally (in my experience), a product A that uses a product B is
> represented by a page in product B's site that lists product A as "powered
> by" product B.
>
> Take a look: http://openjpa.apache.org/powered-by.html
>
> And if product A wants to advertise that relationship, it is via a "powered
> by" logo, i.e. : http://kinz.org/
>
> Craig
>
>
>> Les
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Alex Salazar <alex@alexsalazar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think it would be valuable for Shiro's credibility in the eyes of
>>> potential new users to have a "powered by" page similar to Hadoop.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an issue with creating such a page?
>>>
>>> Here's what I propose specifically:
>>>
>>> 1. On Shiro's front page:
>>>
>>> *Are you using Shiro?*
>>> Please consider adding yourself to the PoweredBy wiki page.  By letting
>>> others know that you are using Shiro, you help expand the community and
>>> in
>>> turn improve Shiro.  Win/Win!
>>>
>>> 2. Creation of a "powered by" wiki page for users to self report.
>>>
>>> 3. Once we have enough people self reports then we'd change the front
>>> page
>>> to like:
>>> Who Uses Shiro?
>>>
>>> A wide variety of companies and organizations use Shiro for both internal
>>> and external applications. Users are encouraged to add themselves to the
>>> Shiro PoweredBy <http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy> wiki page.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
> Craig L Russell
> Architect, Oracle
> http://db.apache.org/jdo
> 408 276-5638 mailto:Craig.Russell@oracle.com
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
>
>

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