I am ok if there is a volunteer. Thks Amol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Pramod Immaneni <[email protected]> wrote: > How about asking for volunteers in the community to manually maintain the > list. How about the specific request to add the conference link to the main > page? > > Thanks > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Amol Kekre <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree with Thomas on not putting meetup events. meetup.com does "index > > by > > Apex", and the search would simply pick up anyone putting Apex in the > event > > and at times they are not relevant to Apex. We get too much clutter. So > the > > only way out is to manually select the events, and then take them out > after > > they are done. This does not scale well. > > > > I however do not agree with a hard filter on vendor content. Apex as a > > community is losing out on a lot of content that is being created by > > vendor(s), which helps with adoption. In longer run google search will > > become more relevant to Apex than apex.apache.org. This is something > that > > Apex community should discuss and vote on. > > > > Thks > > Amol > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Since the conference was beforehand discussed with the PMC I think you > > > could list it under: > > > > > > http://apex.apache.org/community.html#events > > > > > > There is already a link to all meetup groups that have "Apache Apex" as > > > topic. > > > > > > As for other meetup references, IMO direct vendor meetup group > references > > > don't belong on the project web site. > > > > > > Thomas > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Pramod Immaneni < > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I wanted to discuss a couple of items. First, as many of you are > > aware, a > > > > conference specifically for apex, apex big data world 2017, is coming > > up > > > in > > > > the next couple of months. There is one in Pune India and another in > > San > > > > Jose, USA. I wanted to see if we can put links/information about it > on > > a > > > > section of the website. Here is the information about the event > > > > > > > > http://www.apexbigdata.com/ > > > > > > > > Other projects like flink, for example, has the details about their > > > > conference flink forward on their website. > > > > > > > > Second, we used to have a section on our website that showed upcoming > > > > meetups and conferences. Looks like it has been removed. How about we > > > bring > > > > it back. It can be in a different form, if there were issues with how > > we > > > > did it before. > > > > > > > > While we are discussing the second point can we still go ahead and > put > > up > > > > the links to the above conference on the website as soon as possible > as > > > the > > > > events are very close. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > >
