Melissa, welcome to the project and thank you for your email! One of Apache Cassandra’s longstanding challenges has been establishing a voice for itself as an open source project independent of the many corporate entities that support its development. Working together to build awareness and enthusiasm leading up to the 4.0 release sounds great.
Happy to help with writing, speaking, and any way I can. Cheers, — Scott > On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Melissa Logan <loganloganlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m with an open source-focused marketing firm > (https://constantia.io/) that works with DataStax -- we’ve been tasked > by them to drive awareness of the Apache Cassandra project and > community efforts. A neutral marketing “contributor” to C*, if you > will. > > Our team has a long history with open source community marketing. > Community-led software is the way to go. > > As 4.0 release approaches, our goal is to get people interested in C* > and testing the beta. To be 100% crystal clear: this is about > increasing awareness of the Apache Cassandra project, not vendors or > other corporate entities associated with the ecosystem. And just like > development, it works best when many participate. > > To start, we will be contributing C* blogs to opensource.com and > others — and doing media outreach (like the recent ZDNet article). > Anyone interested in lending a hand as a writer and/or spokesperson? > > Appreciate your consideration. > > Melissa Logan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
