I agree with Thomas on not putting meetup events. meetup.com does "index by Apex", and the search would simply pick up anyone putting Apex in the event and at times they are not relevant to Apex. We get too much clutter. So the only way out is to manually select the events, and then take them out after they are done. This does not scale well.
I however do not agree with a hard filter on vendor content. Apex as a community is losing out on a lot of content that is being created by vendor(s), which helps with adoption. In longer run google search will become more relevant to Apex than apex.apache.org. This is something that Apex community should discuss and vote on. Thks Amol On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: > Since the conference was beforehand discussed with the PMC I think you > could list it under: > > http://apex.apache.org/community.html#events > > There is already a link to all meetup groups that have "Apache Apex" as > topic. > > As for other meetup references, IMO direct vendor meetup group references > don't belong on the project web site. > > Thomas > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pramod Immaneni <pra...@datatorrent.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to discuss a couple of items. First, as many of you are aware, a > > conference specifically for apex, apex big data world 2017, is coming up > in > > the next couple of months. There is one in Pune India and another in San > > Jose, USA. I wanted to see if we can put links/information about it on a > > section of the website. Here is the information about the event > > > > http://www.apexbigdata.com/ > > > > Other projects like flink, for example, has the details about their > > conference flink forward on their website. > > > > Second, we used to have a section on our website that showed upcoming > > meetups and conferences. Looks like it has been removed. How about we > bring > > it back. It can be in a different form, if there were issues with how we > > did it before. > > > > While we are discussing the second point can we still go ahead and put up > > the links to the above conference on the website as soon as possible as > the > > events are very close. > > > > Thanks > > >
