I think actively soliciting donations is a great idea. One thing to consider with your discussion is to try and summarize an "ask" / TLDR in the first sentence so people can quickly figure out if they are interested.
Something like "The Parquet community is trying to improve the format via donations of "real world" Parquet files with complex or unusual schemas (for example many columns, deeply nested types, etc). Just a thought, ANdrew On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 12:21 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > We don't seem to have received many footer donations for now, so > perhaps we should spread the information more widely? > > I have started by making a call on the Dask community forum: > > https://dask.discourse.group/t/the-apache-parquet-project-is-looking-for-real-world-samples-and-feedback/3563 > > (very concisely, Dask is a flexible computing framework for Python that > can approach Spark-like distributed performance) > > If this looks good to you, we can probably try contacting other > communities where Parquet usage is likely. What do you think? > > Regards > > Antoine. > > >
