Great idea. Austin - point well taken about whether the PMC really has to micro-manage here. The stakes are potentially very high, but so are the stakes for code and website changes.
I know that comdev votes authoring privileges to people who are not committers, but they are not speaking on behalf of comdev but under their own name. Let's definitely find a way to be effective on social media. Kenn On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 4:14 AM Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Aizhamal, > > This is a great idea. I think it would help Beam to be more prominent on > social media. > > We need to discuss this also on the private@ mailing list but I don't > see anything standing in the way if the PMC always gets to approve the > proposed social media postings. > > I could even imagine that the PMC gives rights to a Beam community > member to post in their name. > > Thanks, > Max > > On 21.05.19 03:09, Austin Bennett wrote: > > Is PMC definitely in charge of this (approving, communication channel, > > etc)? > > > > There could even be a more concrete pull-request-like function even for > > things like tweets (to minimize cut/paste operations)? > > > > I remember a bit of a mechanism having been proposed some time ago (in > > another circumstance), though doesn't look like it made it terribly far: > > > http://www.redhenlab.org/home/the-cognitive-core-research-topics-in-red-hen/the-barnyard/-slick-tweeting > > (I haven't otherwise seen such functionality). > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:54 PM Robert Burke <rob...@frantil.com > > <mailto:rob...@frantil.com>> wrote: > > > > +1 > > As a twitter user, I like this idea. > > > > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 15:18, Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy > > <aizha...@google.com <mailto:aizha...@google.com>> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > What does the community think of making Apache Beam’s social > > media presence more active and more community driven? > > > > > > The Slack and StackOverflow for Apache Beam offer pretty nice > > support, but we still could utilize Twitter & LinkedIn better to > > share more interesting Beam news. For example, we could tweet to > > welcome new committers, announce new features consistently, > > share and recognize contributions, promote events and meetups, > > share other news that are relevant to Beam, big data, etc. > > > > > > I understand that PMC members may not have time to do curation, > > moderation and creation of content; so I was wondering if we > > could create a spreadsheet where community members could propose > > posts with publishing dates, and let somebody to filter, > > moderate, and manage it; then send to a PMC member for > publication. > > > > > > I would love to help where I can in this regard. I’ve had some > > experience doing social media elsewhere in the past. > > > > > > Best > > > > Aizhamal > > > > >
