Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Topics-2011-06-09


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06/09/11 10:25:39 (13 years ago)
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Samuli Seppänen
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     1= OpenVPN 2.2.1 release =
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     3 * Queued patches
     4 * Release date
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     6= OpenVPN 2.3 snapshot builds for Windows =
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     8 * Status of "master" branch: is it possible to build it with VS2008 already?
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     10= Placing small ads into the OpenVPN Windows installer? =
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     12The primary motivation is to rise awareness of OpenVPN Tech's commercial products. These ads would not be invasive, and will not be force-fed to the community. Here are a couple of ideas:
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     14 1. Add small mentions our products in Windows installer's README file (reading it can be skipped)
     15 2. Add link icons to Windows menus (e.g. "Test Access Server", "Test hosted service") pointing to the product pages. Would allow measuring the effects if special URL or options were used. Would not be invasive, unlike, say, desktop icons.
     16 3. Add a new "commercial offerings" installation screen to Windows installer (opt-in).
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     18An example text for options 1 and 3 might be something like this:
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     20{{{
     21COMMERCIAL OFFERINGS
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     23There are a number of commercial products based on OpenVPN:
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     25- Access Server integrates OpenVPN with enterprise management capabilities, a simplified client  GUI
     26  and an easy to use administration GUI. It is packaged for various Linux distributions, available as
     27  a virtual appliances and as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in the Amazon Cloud.
     28- Shield Exchange is an anonymizing service that also protects against various network threats by
     29  securing the traffic from user's computer to the Shield Exchange server and back.
     30- OpenVPN Hosted Service is a hosted version of Access Server
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     32For further details on any of these, go to http://openvpn.net.
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     34}}}