Hello Folks, Aihua and I have been working on the Variant blog[1] and I (biasedly) think it is looking quite good and I am hoping to publish it sometime this week. We would love any feedback you may have.
Thanks! Andrew [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/pull/171 On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > >
