I agree it'd be beneficial to the community to highlight users better. Rather than just a list, though, perhaps we can get some additional user testimonials (either by requesting them or linking to existing blog posts, etc). Testimonials are more effort to write, but I think it's more enticing and informative to potential new users to show, in addition to _who_ is using Beam, _how_ they are using it. I see there are three already on Beam's homepage, maybe we could add more there, or add it to a different page, such as the overview page ( https://beam.apache.org/get-started/beam-overview/). For example, I visited GRPC's website by chance earlier today, and I noticed they had testimonials from 8 different organizations, that go into detail about why they use the software: https://grpc.io/about/#whos-using-grpc-and-why
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:43 PM Austin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Have we considered getting onto our website or our our GitHub repo the > ability for individuals to share that their company is using Beam? Seeing > - what I believe to be a reasonable list of - companies productively using > Beam would be helpful to point others to. For instance, a common question > I get is whether anyone or who is using? I'm not sure that's the best > metric or datapoint in many cases for adoption, but a heuristic that some > rely upon. > > Naturally, we could ask for a roll-call, esp. via user list, but imagining > a persistent web-list would be of interest. > > Cheers, > Austin > > > P.S. If putting such a list into our repo, that would also get some > people to submit PRs (so more contributors!) :-) > > >
