This is super helpful. M&P is in a similar boat w/r/t trying to lower the barriers to participation while also maintaining clear expectations so that promo request flood gates don't open (though this kind of flood would be a welcome problem to have right now).
I'm wondering if there is a way we can coordinate efforts without causing more work on your part? We're looking to have more projects featured on the blog as part of the 'project spotlight series' and also uncover any use cases that we can to underscore the public good mission. Perhaps the lowest hanging fruit would be to have the blog spotlight sort of supplement each podcast episode even if that means changing the template of questions we typically ask and turning the podcast into almost a Q&A transcript. In short, it would be great if we could get multiple assets from a project while we have them engaged but also don't want to interfere with your work. Fwiw, here is the blog template we follow. https://docs.google.com/document/d/107egp12hl6dsjgWzT-E2V56L0qu8SMTqzYt04uGkt5M/edit?tab=t.0 We may even be able to pull answers from the podcast episode and simply ask the project for approval. We would of course then also link to the podcast episode within the blog itself and continue to promote across all channels. Open to any thoughts you have! Thanks, Rich! WT On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 15, 2025, at 12:12 PM, Whitney True <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Thanks for flagging, Rich! > > > > This is well timed as the next edition of Plus One newsletter will go out > > next week. We will be sure to include this and promote on social. > > > > Out of curiosity- what is your criteria for featuring a project? We have > > typically said M&P will focus on major milestones - anniversaries, > project > > use cases and major releases - for press releases and share anything else > > that comes through announce list on social. > > > > This will get full promos as any podcast from you does, but wanted to > check > > to make sure we keep promo expectations clear. > > > I have a much lower bar. I’ll talk to anybody, about any milestone, small > or large. I’m far more interested in telling stories than in specific > milestones. > > What I’m doing right now is watching > https://projects.apache.org/json/foundation/releases.json and sending a > message to any project that 1) has done a release in the past week and 2) > which I haven’t done an interview with in a while. So right now I’m talking > with Superset and Airflow about their recent releases, neither of which > were major versions, but I’ve not talked with Airflow in 5 years, and I’ve > never talked with Superset. > > In the case of Shiro, I hadn’t talked with them in a year, but they > (specifically, Lenny) reached out to me to do the interview. > > I am trying *really hard* to get back into a weekly cadence, which is > pretty challenging, so I’m trying to build up a little bit of a backlog. > > Also, I’ve updated this page - https://plusone.apache.org/about/ - which > broadly outlines the kind of interviews I want to do. I want to do more of > the “Why” type interviews, but they tend to take more preparation and > recruiting. So that’s next on the list. Feel free to send anyone my way if > you have ideas. > > — > Rich Bowen > [email protected] > > > > >
