Add Ericsson logo

[davidostman]

Add Participant Form

This is an issue created to request the Valkey Project adding a company as a participant in the website. If you want your company to be added please make sure the content is factual and related to the Valkey project.

Company Information

• Provide Company Name: Ericsson
• Provide Company URL: https://www.ericsson.com/
• Provide Description of Company (50 words or less): Founded in 1876, Ericsson is a Swedish communication technology and services provider. The company offers software, services, and infrastructure for information and communications technology used by telecommunications operators, including traditional telecommunications, Internet Protocol networking equipment and business support solutions. Ericsson is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Provide Link to Valkey related offering: {placeholder}
• Provide Description related to Valkey offering (50 words or less): {placeholder}
• Attach the company Logo (use SVG format if possible)

Contact Person

We want to be able to reach out to you if we have questions while processing this request. Please introduce your contact details (or the details of the responsible person in your company).

• Name
• GitHub handle
• E-mail david.ostman@est.tech

[zuiderkwast]

@pnbrown

[madolson]

You can also submit a PR and do it self-service, like #204. Nigel is out traveling for a bit.

[pnbrown]

The page won't render with nothing in the "Valkey Offering" field. Can we come up with something to the effect of the offering being engineering expertise and maintainership?

[zuiderkwast]

"engineering expertise and maintainership" can be good to mention but can we rename the "offering" field to something more generic in that case?

Does the partners page have to be biased towards database service providers? I think that's one kind of partner but we could broaden it.

To start with, we can make the field optional. It shouldn't be that hard to modify that logic.

[pnbrown]

Those are good points. I'll work on making the field optional

[pnbrown]

It does look like renaming is significantly more straightforward. Would "Contribution to Valkey" be appropriate? "Valkey Offering/Contribution"?

[zuiderkwast]

I think it would be nice to include a section about how we support Valkey.

Maybe we can actually write something under Offering, something like this:

We don't provide a Valkey offering as such, but we contribute to the Valkey project in the form of engineering expertise and maintainership. Valkey is an integral part of our systems powering telecom networks around the globe.

-- or --

Another option is we change the "Valkey Offering" title just for us, by adding a different optional heading, like

Contributions

We contribute to Valkey in the form of engineering expertise and maintainership. Valkey is an integral part of our systems powering telecom networks around the globe.

The formulations are maybe not the best. I didn't think about it for many minutes.

@davidostman What do you think? Maybe you can improve it?

---

If we want to make 'offering' optional, it seems easy to me. I just tried this locally and it seems to work:

--- a/templates/participants.html
+++ b/templates/participants.html
@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@
       <a href="{{participant.link}}" class="logo">
         <img src="{{participant.image.path}}" alt="{{participant.image.alt}}" />
       </a>
-      <h3>Valkey offering:</h3>
-      {{ participant.offering | markdown | safe }}
+      {% if participant.offering %}
+        <h3>Valkey offering:</h3>
+        {{ participant.offering | markdown | safe }}
+      {% endif %}
       <h3>About the company:</h3>
       {{ participant.company | markdown | safe }}
       
     </div>
   {% endfor %}
 </div>

[madolson]

I agree about making the offering optional. I think we should allow a field to let organizations including any other information they want about there involvement in OSS or Valkey specifically.

[zuiderkwast]

An optional "Open-source involvement" heading?

[pnbrown]

I think it would be nice to include a section about how we support Valkey.

Maybe we can actually write something under Offering, something like this:

We don't provide a Valkey offering as such, but we contribute to the Valkey project in the form of engineering expertise and maintainership. Valkey is an integral part of our systems powering telecom networks around the globe.

-- or --

Another option is we change the "Valkey Offering" title just for us, by adding a different optional heading, like

Contributions
We contribute to Valkey in the form of engineering expertise and maintainership. Valkey is an integral part of our systems powering telecom networks around the globe.

The formulations are maybe not the best. I didn't think about it for many minutes.

@davidostman What do you think? Maybe you can improve it?

If we want to make 'offering' optional, it seems easy to me. I just tried this locally and it seems to work:

--- a/templates/participants.html
+++ b/templates/participants.html
@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@

•  <h3>Valkey offering:</h3>
  

•  {{ participant.offering | markdown | safe }}
  

•  {% if participant.offering %}
  

•    <h3>Valkey offering:</h3>
  

•    {{ participant.offering | markdown | safe }}
  

•  {% endif %}
   <h3>About the company:</h3>
   {{ participant.company | markdown | safe }}
  

  {% endfor %}

I did not try that. That's a great idea

[davidostman]

I agree with Madelyn and Viktor make it optional.

if there is a other field we could add something like
As one of the founding companies of the Valkey project, it’s as an integral part of our systems, contributing with engineering expertise and maintainership to the project.

[pnbrown]

The field has been made optional. Thank you for the code @zuiderkwast. I'm about to open a PR to have it merged to the site

[davidostman]

Hi,

Hope you are doing good Nigel. How did it go with the PR ?