I'm not sure if they can merge groups but from what I'm reading that wouldn't work either. What I'm seeing is a desire to not "promote vendors" which I believe is working against the project's self-interest. LinkedIn is the perfect place to do it. The allergic reaction the project has taken for vendors has made our ecosystem look weak when that's not really the case. Temporal, Prometheus, Feast, Orkes (to just name a few) all have Cassandra integrations but you would never know that by looking at any official Cassandra communication because ecosystem == vendor == bad. The result is that Cassandra looks like an island that will never help this project grow.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:20 AM Jeremy Hanna <jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to ask someone at linkedin to merge the groups together so > that it's managed by the PMC but with the explicit permission of the people > running the other group? In the past, I know that Twitter does things like > that in terms of handles and followers. Is that a desirable outcome? > > On Mar 9, 2022, at 11:00 AM, Benjamin Lerer <b.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Patrick, > Thanks for reaching out. Effectively the discussion has happened between > the PMC members. > To explain the context, we wanted to have an official group on Linkedin to > publish news about the project as we do through the @cassandra handler on > Twitter. We wanted a group that was vendor independent and focused on > Apache Cassandra and its ecosystem. > To be fully transparent, we had no idea that you were in charge of the > Apache Cassandra Users group as it appears managed by Lynn Bender and > Joanna Kapel. The group also appears to promote different vendors which is > something that we wanted to avoid. > Having to post things under Lynn's name was also an issue for us as we > wished the merits to go to the right persons. > > Now, I am sure that we can work out some solution that will benefit the > community. :-) > > Le mer. 9 mars 2022 à 15:56, Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > >> I feel like this needs to be a discussion held on the public mailing >> list. I have been running the Apache Cassandra Users group on LinkedIn for >> years after taking it over from Lynn Bender. >> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3803052/ >> >> We have over 7500 members and had its ups and downs but it's been pretty >> consistent as a professional resource on LinkedIn. I'm not sure what there >> is to gain by creating competing groups. If we need more managers in the >> group that's fine but somebody just needed to ask. It's clear that this >> discussion happened somewhere else and this was just an announcement. >> >> Patrick >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:41 AM Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> We just created a new Apache Cassandra group on LinkedIn ( >>> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9159443/). >>> >>> This group will be managed by our community and will respect vendor >>> neutrality. >>> Do not hesitate to join and share your experiences or blog posts with us >>> :-) >>> >> >
