I think this is a great idea, as long as we can get critical mass. One danger I've seen is that such pages can grow stale/feel dated if not regularly updated/added to, so we should have a plan there.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:21 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy <[email protected]> wrote: > +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!) :-) >>> >>> >>>
