Shane Curcuru shared the following advice, This is partly a branding question (in terms of what name to use, > especially if there is any perceived direct relationship between the > social media group and the PMC. Some guidelines to review to help you > decide are: > > https://apache.org/foundation/marks/socialmedia > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PRESS/Publicity+Guidelines+for+Top-Level+Projects#PublicityGuidelinesforTopLevelProjects-socialguidelines > > Also, has the PMC discussed this and have a rough consensus (or at least > enough discussion to show there's no objections)? There certainly are > plenty of affinity groups named after our projects on LinkedIn and > similar places. The great majority are fine, because readers understand > they're affinity groups, not official project areas. > > The real issues to watch out for are: > - Making sure that groups like this note in their descriptions they are > not official parts of the project or PMC. > - Keeping the discussion focused on the project and technology, and not > letting it become merely a place for vendor ads or other brand > infringement. >
I'll reach out internally in our PMC to see if we need an official project relationship or whether an "affinity group" would be fine. So far it appears both LinkedIn Group owners are willing to share ownership :-D On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > I sent a question to Apache ComDev last night. I'll forward their > response. > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM Nazerke S <sn1.naze...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Surprised about this existing "Solr" group and didn't know its existence. >> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/. >> >> Also found this group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10319666/ named >> "Apache Solr". The owner of this group agreed to give/have control over >> the >> group. >> >> Agree, the first "Solr" group seems appealing to get started with, simply >> with more followers. >> >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM Alessandro Benedetti < >> a.benede...@sease.io> >> wrote: >> >> > +1 to contact the administrator and use the 6k user base to resurrect >> the >> > group and get more traction. >> > >> > Cheers >> > -------------------------- >> > *Alessandro Benedetti* >> > Director @ Sease Ltd. >> > *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* >> > *Apache Solr PMC Member* >> > >> > e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io >> > >> > >> > *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied >> > Consulting | Training | Open Source >> > >> > Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> >> > LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter >> > <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube >> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github >> > <https://github.com/seaseltd> >> > >> > >> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 at 22:50, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > Guess some PMC members could reach out and ask to be added as admins >> of >> > > the group. Then advocate for crafting some group rules and make it >> more >> > > about Solr again. Perhaps convert til to a public group for more >> > visibility? >> > > >> > > Jan Høydahl >> > > >> > > > 16. jan. 2025 kl. 19:34 skrev Alessandro Benedetti < >> > a.benede...@sease.io >> > > >: >> > > > >> > > > There is a Solr group on Linkedin actually: >> > > > https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ >> > > > >> > > > it's administered by someone I don't know and who's not involved as >> a >> > > > committer or PMC in any way (as far as I know): Patrick Plaatje ( >> > > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickplaatje/). >> > > > >> > > > Its main contributor is a gentleman who has polluted the group with >> > posts >> > > > that have hardly any relationship with Solr at all. >> > > > You can find probably a handful of posts vaguely related to Solr in >> the >> > > > last year or so. >> > > > >> > > > I thought I posted there occasionally, but couldn't find any of my >> > posts >> > > in >> > > > the last couple of years so I may be wrong. >> > > > >> > > > The group seems decently dead to me, not sure if recoverable, maybe >> > it's >> > > > worth starting afresh? >> > > > It has a good follower base though (roughly 6k). >> > > > >> > > > Cheers >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > -------------------------- >> > > > *Alessandro Benedetti* >> > > > Director @ Sease Ltd. >> > > > *Apache Lucene/Solr Committer* >> > > > *Apache Solr PMC Member* >> > > > >> > > > e-mail: a.benede...@sease.io >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > *Sease* - Information Retrieval Applied >> > > > Consulting | Training | Open Source >> > > > >> > > > Website: Sease.io <http://sease.io/> >> > > > LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/company/sease-ltd> | Twitter >> > > > <https://twitter.com/seaseltd> | Youtube >> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx86ZKLYNpI3gzMercM7BQ> | Github >> > > > <https://github.com/seaseltd> >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org >> > > >> > > >> > >> >
