<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>This is a quick reminder, that we are still waiting for your feedback. Please fill our brief (one question) survey: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/TmTJY8CkRAzUwtEA2">https://goo.gl/forms/TmTJY8CkRAzUwtEA2</a><br><br></div>Thank you,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Czanik (CzP) <<a href="mailto:peter.czanik@balabit.com" target="_blank">peter.czanik@balabit.com</a>><br>Balabit / syslog-ng upstream<br><a href="https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/" target="_blank">https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/PCzanik" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PCzanik</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Czanik, Péter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.czanik@balabit.com" target="_blank">peter.czanik@balabit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="m_3149197686893793242gmail-im"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>We at Balabit are and have always been both very
excited and humbled by the community that formed around syslog-ng over
the past two decades. Many of you have been a part of this long journey
and helped syslog-ng to get to where it is today, and we thank you for
that.<br></div></span><div><span><div><br></div><div>Throughout the
years, we provided a best-in-class documentation not just for our
commercial offerings but for syslog-ng Open Source Edition as well. <span style="font-size:12.8px">However, for the past half decade official binaries existed only for syslog-ng Premium Edition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></span><div class="m_3149197686893793242gmail-adL"><span class="m_3149197686893793242gmail-im"><span><div>Soon, this will change.</div><div><br></div><div>We
will introduce a brand new website for all that is syslog-ng, and with
that will come an official syslog-ng OSE repository with binaries for
some of the most popular Linux distributions. We expect to launch <a href="http://syslog-ng.com" target="_blank">syslog-ng.com</a>
in November, moving content for both OSE and its commercial versions to
the site to become a single hub for all syslog-ng users.</div></span><span><div><br></div><div>The
official syslog-ng OSE repository will be just a part (although a major
one) of a comprehensive overhaul of our OSE related content providing
platform. We will provide regular technical webinars and trainings for
syslog-ng OSE users, more blogs on practical tips&tricks, common use
cases, etc. We plan to channel all syslog-ng related discussion into a
forum on the new site, although this will take some more time. And we
already started putting in more resources into the development of the
Open Source Edition.</div><div><br></div></span><div>This is a major
commitment on our side to the community, and we know that it is the
right move. However, we haven't quite decided on the implementation yet,
and we are looking for your feedback on this. This is a serious
business decision and ultimately all stakeholders (we as a company and
you as a member of the community) have to benefit from this move,
otherwise there is no reason to do it.</div><span><div><br></div><div>We
are listing all these so you can see the bigger picture before we
present you the question: Would you register on the upcoming syslog-ng
website to get access to the official repository and the aforementioned
content?</div></span><div><br></div><div>What would you gain if you registered?</div><div><ul><li>Access
to a repository containing the latest syslog-ng packages (technically,
you would receive a key that you could include in FIXME)</li><li>Alerts, announcements and news about the syslog-ng releases</li><li>Regular
news about syslog-ng related content to help you better solve problems
with syslog-ng (blog posts, tutorials, interesting use cases about
problems that others solved with syslog-ng, and so on)</li></ul></div><div>What would we gain if you registered?</div><div><ul><li>First
and foremost, we would get information immensely useful for us to
optimize our development resources. How many of you use the
repositories, which versions of syslog-ng you use, which platforms are
the most important, which ones you do not use anymore, and so on.
Unfortunately, we cannot get such data if you use external repositories
(like the current unofficial ones), or if you install syslog-ng from
your distribution.</li><li>Information about in which countries are hubs
of syslog-ng users, for example, where could we organize meetups most
successfully, or participate in local conferences to strengthen the
community.</li><li>The ability to send you information about syslog-ng,
both to help you learn about the possibilities of syslog-ng, and also to
let you know about our commercial offerings. We know that some of you
won't be interested in anything commercial, and that's fine. But to keep
syslog-ng alive, we also need the support of those who do. We believe
that registering on the new website and receiving the occasional email
from us is a small favor to ask in return of the convenience of having
access to a official repository with up-to-date packages, and we will
strive to send you emails with useful content.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div> Please let us know what you think using <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/TmTJY8CkRAzUwtEA2" target="_blank">this short Google Form.</a></div><div><br></div><div>Bye,<br></div><div><br></div></span></div></div><div><div class="m_3149197686893793242gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Czanik (CzP) <<a href="mailto:peter.czanik@balabit.com" target="_blank">peter.czanik@balabit.com</a>><br>Balabit / syslog-ng upstream<br><a href="https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/" target="_blank">https://www.balabit.com/blog/<wbr>author/peterczanik/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/PCzanik" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PCzanik</a></div></div></div></div>
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