I agree that is a problem. In the past, I have tried to make these as inclusive as possible by offering multiple time zones, recording every meeting, and posting it on YouTube with an email sent to dev@. What we can't substitute in a mailing list is the energy that comes from brainstorming, which is kind of a feature of people interested in this sort of thing for the project. Just like meeting once or twice a year at ApacheCon. It's part of an overall package of community vibrancy and none of it is exclusive.
One thing that occurred to me is that everything is getting dumped on dev@. Is it time for a marketing@ list for Cassandra? Patrick On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:00 PM Eric Evans <eev...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 3:35 AM Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Thank Erick for raising the discussion. >> My apologies for not responding before. The original thread raised >> several questions for me and I needed time to think about them. >> One question is the Linkedin Company vs Group one. I must admit that it >> makes sense but the whole story made me realize my lack of understanding of >> how Linkedin works and wanted to explore that more deeply than I did before >> creating the group. >> Another thing that the thread made me realize is that there are several >> people interested in being involved in C* marketing/Public Relations and >> that we probably need to do the things in a more mature and open way. >> Partick and I would like to organize a contributor meeting focused on >> Apache Cassandra marketing to give a chance to everybody to join and >> discuss how we could do things better if people are interested. >> I feel that it would help us to evolve in this area >> > > Please bear in mind that contributor meetings like these are exclusive by > nature; There is no time suitable for every timezone, not everyone has > equal connectivity, and those who don't natively speak English might > struggle to keep pace in real time (to name just a few reasons). This is > probably why the ASF is so adamant about the use of email. > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@apache.org >
