Re: [DISCUSS] What's Our Battle Cry? CloudStack the Cloud that Just Works

["Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral" <kr...@cloudcentral.com.au>]

How about some inflatable monkey mascots?
  
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 From: "Shannon Williams" <sh...@citrix.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 11:46 PM
To: "<ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>" <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] What's Our Battle Cry? CloudStack the Cloud that Just Works   
Sweet.

Best Regards,

Shannon Williams
+1 (650) 521-6902
shannon.williams@citrix.com

> On May 30, 2014, at 7:01 PM, "Mark Hinkle" <Ma...@citrix.com> wrote:
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> It always comes down to the t-shirts doesn't it? Maybe something like this?
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/encoreopus/14307423062/
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> Mark
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> On May 30, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Shannon Williams <sh...@citrix.com>> wrote:
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> Great discussion Mark.
>
> I want a T-Shirt as well. My vote, the new slogan should be: #cloudstackworks
>
> It's great because we can use it with lots of tags:
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> #cloudstackworks for gaming (when we talk about Disney or Zynga's big CloudStack clouds)
> #cloudsatckworks in China (when we talk about the new docs)
> #cloudstackworks with PaaS (when we talk about a new company joining the community)
> #cloudstackworks in Budapest (when we announce the next summit).
>
> It doesn't go too far to attack anyone, but focuses on all of the successful deployments that are out there. Almost like a virtual high five.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Shannon Williams
> shannon.williams@citrix.com<ma...@citrix.com>
> +1 650-521-6902
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chiradeep Vittal [mailto:Chiradeep.Vittal@citrix.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:09 PM
> To: <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] What's Our Battle Cry? CloudStack the Cloud that Just Works
>
> Cool. Reminds me of "Intel Inside".
> Can I haz t-shirt?
>
> --
> Chiradeep
>
> On May 30, 2014, at 11:57 AM, "Krishna Subramanian" <Kr...@citrix.com> wrote:
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> Mark, this is a good theme we can build on, and talk to both the capabilities as well as the market validation of Apache CloudStack e.g.
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> Apache CloudStack: The Cloud that just Works
>
> ...with all your apps
> ...with all your infrastructure
> ...with just an admin
> ...etc
>
> ...with enterprises
> ...with service providers
> ...in Government
> ...in Education
> ....in Europe
> ....in Japan
> ...etc...
>
> Thanks
> Krishna
>
>
> Krishna Subramanian
> VP Product Marketing, Cloud Platforms
> Citrix Systems, Inc
> krishnas@citrix.com
> 408.209.9483
> @cloudKrishna
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hinkle [mailto:Mark.Hinkle@citrix.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:34 AM
> To: <ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>
> Subject: [DISCUSS] What's Our Battle Cry? CloudStack the Cloud that Just Works
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I was speaking with some of our folks at Citrix on how we position Apache CloudStack. As we talk about our products we also try to paint ACS as a strong foundation for building a cloud in a variety of ways but in the interest of being succinct and consistent across our project I think it would be good to have our standard battle cry or descriptor to help reinforce why you should be considering ACS and help all the supporters of the project reinforce our value. We have gravitated towards:
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> Apache CloudStack: The Cloud that Just Works
>
> Based on the fact that you can get it up and running quickly and become productive in a very short time. Does anyone have other ways they describe ACS? What do you think about the proposed message.
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>
> Regards, Mark
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>
>