Hey All, I've been doing some thinking on how we can grow the community. I recently did a Feathercast with Rich Bowen. You listen to the audio or get directed to the YouTube video from this link. If you watch me carefully I keep getting distracted by my dog outside my window while I'm talking :-).
https://feathercast.apache.org/2021/08/27/apache-heron-incubating-josh-fischer/ Additionally, I'm thinking of giving bi-weekly community updates on the feathercast about Heron. Maybe we can get some of the material from the bi-weekly update that Ning sends out. It would be cool to give shout outs to the people working on Heron in the Feathercast. I'm not exactly sure of the days/time or what the format will be yet. You can join in on the conversation on the feathercast[at]apache[dot]org mailing list if you want. Finally, I'm thinking of cutting one more RC out of the incubator before we attempt to graduate. With this next RC I think we could also release the helm chart, heronpy, and a distro on Heron in Docker (other than Debian). This is an additional attempt to ease the use of Heron, which in my opinion, is the biggest troublemaker for adoption. Let me know if anyone has any issues with my thinking. We've all made great progress on graduating Heron out of the incubator. I believe we are on the final stretch. - Josh
