[board] Fwd: Re: New Ohloh Download Service

[Jan Schneider]

----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht von scott at ohloh.net -----
     Datum: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:12:48 -0700
       Von: Scott Collison <scott at ohloh.net>
   Betreff: Re: New Ohloh Download Service
        An: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
        Cc: board at lists.horde.org, Jason Allen <jason at ohloh.net>

Hi Jan, 

Wow! That is serendipitous. I address a few of your concerns in this mail. Feel free to contact me or Jason Allen (cc'd on this mail), if you have any further questions. We would be happy to answer them. 

On Oct 20, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:

> Hi Scott, 
>
> Zitat von Scott Collison <scott at ohloh.net>: 
>
> > Hey Jan, 
> >
> >
> > We haven't met, but you may know my company which is called Ohloh. Thanks for mentioning us in your interview with TechWorld. It's always nice to see that. 
> >
> >
> > We're looking for some folks who could start using our new download service. We have a couple of projects on, but we would like to get some more folks using it.
> >
> > Here's what we offer:
> > 1. Simple admin. UI is clean and the automation scheme is, imho, very easy.
> > 2. High availability/bandwidth: we leverage Amazon S3 as our storage back end and a Amazon's new CDN to distribute the bits.
> > 3. Reporting: we offer daily apache-style logs for tracking who's downloading your bits. You can also instrument your Ohloh download page for web analytics services like Google Analytics.
> >
> > You can find out more about it here. https://www.ohloh.net/help/download_faq
> >
> > Or you can see a site that uses us here http://filezilla-project.org/
> >
> > Let me know what you think!
>
> Thanks a lot for your mail. It's kind of funny because we just recently discussed whether to use Oloh for download distribution. You might find the meeting minutes and the IRC log from our advisory board meeting interesting: http://lists.horde.org/archives/board/2008-October/000085.html.
>
> The very second paragraph of the minutes describes pretty well where we are with that discussion at the moment. I Cc'ed the board list so they stay in the loop.
>
>
> Jan.

Just to quickly address a few of the issues in your IRC log:  
-We are well financed and also generate revenue, so we will be around for a while. 
-Our model is straightforward on the download business. We run one small ad on your download page and we make some revenue from that. 
-We think our terms of use are straightforward. If something does look weird to you, please let us know and we will work with you to make it acceptable. 
-Our partner for downloads is Amazon. We use S3 and their brand new CDN to deliver this service. 
-We have some big projects like FileZilla that use us. FileZilla does about 50k downloads per day. 

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Jan.

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