Hi folks, I wanted to share with the dev@ list some of the ongoing discussion we've been having in the community working group.
One of the things that we're looking to improve is our outward communication in the project. There are many facets to this, but two problems that I'd like to highlight here are: (1) It's difficult to keep up with what's going on in the project, and (2) awareness of our technical innovations is low. For (1), the newsletter that Greg started aims to help provide a regular update highlighting all of the recently completed and ongoing work and events. The hope is that this will make it much easier to keep tabs on the happenings in the project. For (2), my suggestion is that we use the blog to highlight some of our technical innovations. We've been neglectful of the blog for the past few years, other than to publish new releases. On the other hand, we do a lot of technical talks at conferences, meetups, etc. Giving talks are great for raising awareness, but I think blog posts would help be a great complement for raising additional awareness towards some of the innovative technology we've built. Recently, we published some blog posts highlighting some master failover performance improvements and the CSI work: http://mesos.apache.org/blog/ For now, we've seeded some ideas for future blog posts here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vgi434dYkkZHs49EK4F4eMmM-3JG4f3qg-N5En-4ubg/edit# Please feel free to add any ideas that would showcase our technical substance! The plan is for the community working group to reach out to folks to encourage blog posts that we think would highlight something interesting for the community. An as example, I think raising awareness of the partition awareness work and the features it has enabled in Marathon and Aurora would make for a compelling blog post. We're also thinking of moving the blog to something more modern and engaging, like Medium. Let us know if you have any thoughts or suggestions! Ben
