Oh and +1 to the idea of making Apache Cassandra a company on LinkedIn. Same energy as the Twitter handle. Outgoing updates from the project.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:41 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
