Nobody on the PMC expressed an appetite for having a formal relationship with a LinkedIn group. That's good because it basically reduces barriers/concerns.
I suggest that we embrace the group with the highest number of members: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ named "Solr" currently at 5815 members. BTW we can reasonably expect that number to drop a lot as members who joined forever ago that aren't using Solr today are likely to leave. I posted the Solr 9.8 release announcement there yesterday. Jan inquired there about making the group public (which I definitely think we should do). Nazerke, I'll try and add you as an admin; thank you for your initiative here! ~ David On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM David Smiley <dsmi...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>
