Hi community, I just drafted a variant blog <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABr3p-xj_8rHQ2kdzzDSceejGkU0nWnriZGPjhDoDBc/>. When you have time, can you help review?
Thanks, Aihua On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 4:33 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > The idea of blog posts came up the other day too, so I filed some tickets > to hopefully track and organize the effort and help collaboration > > I think there are at least three proposed blogs in this thread, so I filed > three tickets: > > - Variant[1] > - Geospatial[2] > - Complex Types[3] > > Looking forward to seeing these get posted. Let me know how I can help > (e.g. figuring out how to actually post them on the site, for example). > > Andrew > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/147 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148 > [3]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/149 > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Agree. We started to write a little bit for variant and I can take > variant > > blog. > > > > > > On Oct 2, 2025, at 5:07 PM, Julien Le Dem <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I was thinking that we should talk more about the new features in > > Parquet. > > > Specifically, write blog posts about Variant or Geo types. > > > How they came to be, what they enable, how they are integrated in the > > > ecosystem. > > > The Parquet blog is only the release announcements for now ( > > > https://parquet.apache.org/blog/) and we can make it an opportunity to > > > spotlight some of the recent additions to the project. > > > Contributors welcome. > > > Some sources of inspiration: > > > https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ > > > https://openlineage.io/blog > > > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/ > > > What do you think? > > >
