Great idea, and +1 to Jarek's sentiment that just because we're doing medium doesn't mean we can't also look into other platforms as well! Tomek, I PM'd my ID so that i can proofread/approve things for the publication. This is right up my alley - I love proofreading! :)
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:41 AM Tobiasz Kędzierski < [email protected]> wrote: > It is great! I've just added to my bookmarks. > > Thanks Tomek! > > BR Tobiasz > > wt., 23 lut 2021 o 10:11 Tomasz Urbaszek <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > >> Hello all, >> >> As promised I created the publication: >> https://medium.com/apache-airflow >> >> If you know some articles that we can add to the publication - let me >> know, here or on #blogposts channel on Airflow slack. >> >> Committers - if you are interested in being editor, please provide (can >> be via slack) your medium ids so I can add you. >> >> Cheers, >> Tomek >> >> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 13:51, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> After the change in October - they only require registration if you >>> want to read the "Partner" blog post where the partner wants to earn money. >>> They realised how damaging the previous approach was and withdrew. >>> >>> And yeah we can support both. ASF and Apache 2.0 are commercially >>> friendly and I believe this is part of their success :). I am personally >>> not a big fan of copy-left licenses - not everyone has to be open-source. >>> It's great if they do, but this is not the only business model. >>> If Medium wants to make money on free stuff - this is great as long as >>> free articles are free. I am happy they found a way to build a business >>> model that works for them and at the same time people who want to share >>> for free can do it without obligations and limitation of their readership. >>> My personal opinion is that earning money is a good thing (if you are >>> not exploiting others). They can employ people and pay them, and they pay >>> taxes eventually. While I think their previous model when they chose which >>> articles were put behind paywall was a bad idea (and I withdrew my >>> subscription when they introduced it), they realised that and changed back >>> to be good citizens (mainly because they saw how damaging it is to them I >>> believe). >>> >>> And I think Medium's reach, popularity and discoverability (and position >>> in search engines) are far bigger than dev.to. >>> >>> I believe there is nothing wrong with promoting both and let the >>> author's choose which "medium" (!) they choose rather than force them to >>> use one. We can add others as well (if we find there are other popular >>> ones) - the more, the merrier. It costs us nothing but a short discussion :) >>> >>> J. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:22 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> One last thing (i promise) is that dev.to is powered by >>>> OpenSource. They Open Sourced their software called >>>> <https://github.com/forem/forem> >>>> Forem <https://github.com/forem/forem>. Since this is Open Source well >>>> ^^ >>>> >>>> Kind Regards, >>>> >>>> Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer >>>> about <https://compileralchemy.github.io/> | blog >>>> <https://www.pythonkitchen.com> >>>> github <https://github.com/Abdur-RahmaanJ> >>>> Mauritius >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> +48 660 796 129 <+48%20660%20796%20129> >>> >> -- Leah Cole (she/her) | Developer Programs Engineer | [email protected] | (925) 257-2112 *I'm working weird hours during this pandemic and am sometimes a bit slower to respond to PRs/CLs than normal. Please feel free to send me a gentle ping for a status update if my slowness is blocking you and I'll do my best to give you an ETA. *
