I've seen it in other open source communities where someone tries to maintain a somewhat detailed summary newsletter of what's going on with the project, but weekly is a fairly brutal cadence, and it doesn't usually last for long. In a past life (for the Meteor.js community), my team built a tool where people could submit, discuss, and vote on content newsletter-worthy content - and we automated emailing a summary of that weekly, which crowdsourced the problem of collecting/sorting content.
Now if we would consider a monthly cadence, I have an idea... We (the Airflow Summit organizers) are working on a plan to produce monthly online meetups, and along with that, a high-quality monthly Airflow-related email newsletter. We're currently working on a first draft plan for this, and lining up resources to make this happen, including a budget for tools and production. We could merge your idea, Karolina, into this newsletter, by including a section which could highlight the good work that is being done, as well as highlight opportunities for community devs to plug in — which will increase the value of this newsletter. Thoughts? -Ry On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:07 AM Tomasz Urbaszek <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's a really good idea! > > Few points / ideas: > > 1. What tool can we use and if paid who will cover it? Is it possible > to create new mailing list like `[email protected]` that can be > used for a newsletter? EDIT: devlist don't support html right? > > 2. Who should be responsible for preparing it? We will at least need a > nice template but how will care for the content? Can we automate > something? > > 3. Let's have a "PR of the month" section :D > > Tomek > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:57 PM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Strong +1. > > > > I reviewed and cleaned-up my inbox yesterday (and I woke up this morning > to > > 50+ new emails - surely some of them are for PRs and other things I am > > engaged with, but I am working on Airflow pretty much full time (ir > > sometimes I think 150% ;), but I only imagine how people must feel if > this > > is just side-job for them. > > > > And I think if it will be nicely formatted (similar to the Superset > > newsletter for those who follow it) and "stand out", that might be rather > > useful to catch up. And it should not be that difficult - to get the > > content, I think this is just a matter of having a place where anyone > from > > the community will be able to add their "important events", a little bit > of > > nagging in slack and remind people to submit their "news" and someone who > > can nicely arrange and redact this. > > > > And with 2.0 approaching and our work on it accelerating I think we > > will have enough content for weekly newsletters. > > > > J > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:26 AM Karolina Rosół < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Past few days I was wondering if it's a good idea to have a sort of > summary > > > of the subjects that are being discussed among the community. > > > It could be weekly/bi-weekly/monthly "release" but with the summary of > the > > > subjects that are hot within the Apache Airflow community atm. > > > > > > Why would the community need a summary like this? > > > > > > 1. Community is getting bigger and the number of the > discussions/votings > > > & other things will grow; > > > 2. Sometimes the number of emails is simply too big to handle on a > daily > > > basis; > > > 3. Not everyone who wants to contribute will follow the devlist so > > > often; > > > 4. Also, it is a great way of learning on a high level what the > > > community is all about and maybe would help new contributors decide > on > > > what > > > matters to invest their time? Plus for people who are managers e.g. > and > > > don't understand how devlist works, they can have a sort of cheat > sheet > > > and > > > be more supportive for open source initiatives within various > companies' > > > teams. > > > 5. There are a couple of categories in the email subjects currently. > > > However, I imagine such newsletter to be more precise yet in a > "bullet > > > point" form i.e, > > > - Category: Operators > > > - Current discussions: KubernetesPodOperator [ERROR] > > > - Category: Announcements > > > - Apache Airflow version 1.10.12 has been released! > > > > > > To sum up, I'm not sure about the frequency of sending such a > newsletter. > > > In my opinion a weekly basis is the best to be able to go through all > of > > > the emails and then prepare a summary. > > > > > > Let me know what you guys think and if something like that sounds > useful at > > > all. > > > > > > > > > Karolina Rosół > > > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Project Manager > > > > > > M: +48 606 630 236 <+48606630236> > > > E: [email protected] > > > [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/> > > > > > > Check out our projects! <https://www.polidea.com/our-work> > > > [image: Github] <https://github.com/Polidea> [image: Facebook] > > > <https://www.facebook.com/Polidea.Software> [image: Twitter] > > > <https://twitter.com/polidea> [image: Linkedin] > > > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/polidea> [image: Instagram] > > > <https://instagram.com/polidea> [image: Behance] > > > <https://www.behance.net/polidea> [image: dribbble] > > > <https://dribbble.com/polideadesign> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jarek Potiuk > > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer > > > > M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> > > [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/> > > > > -- > > Tomasz Urbaszek > Polidea | Software Engineer > > M: +48 505 628 493 > E: [email protected] > > Unique Tech > Check out our projects! >
