+1 on adding testimonials/snippets from users either or both on GitHub and website.
As part of the Beam website redesign proposal [1], we are suggesting to add a few pages like, "Powered by" or "Use Cases" which users can refer to and find information on who is using Beam and why. The proposal hasn't been finalized yet, we are expecting to continue to work on it after we finish migrating the website to Hugo. It would be awesome if we started collecting those testimonials, so that we can share them on the Beam site once there's a Powered By / Use cases section. Austin, is that something that you're interested in helping with? [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1btXMkQGqYaU9pUjYh0iCNrbXf4pAHe3tBFsLQ_cLYHg/edit On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:06 PM Kyle Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!) :-) >> >> >>
