Hi everyone, I'd like to pilot this if that's okay by everyone. I'll set up a spreadsheet, write a blog post publicizing it, and perhaps send out a tweet. We can improve the process later with tools if necessary.
Thanks all and have a great weekend! Aizhamal On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:37 PM Kenneth Knowles <k...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > >> >
