Hi all One thing that is common to all successful large open source projects is that they inevitably grow a huge ecosystem of plugins, addons or supporting tools that are independent from the official core project. For example addons.mozilla.org and pypi.org are two examples of what I mean.
Some time ago I stumbled into flink-packages.org . As you might guess it's a catalogue of 3rd party plugins for Apache Flink. The source code is available at https://github.com/ververica/flink-ecosystem so I decided to fork it and do s/Flink/Cassandra/ and see where that brings me. It ended up like this: http://35.184.128.58/ and https://github.com/henrikingo/flink-ecosystem With the help of some colleagues we've populated the site with the entries from https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html plus some other things we could think of. The point with the site is that anyone is welcome to authenticate with your github account, and submit an entry with links to your favorite Cassandra addon or tool. The idea is that for example the developer of a tool is welcome to add and maintain their own entry. Currently the site is in my personal GCP account. The proposal - which I would like to hear discussion and feedback on - is essentially to replace https://cassandra.apache.org/_/ecosystem.html with this site. It could live at something like ecosystem.cassandra.apache.org for example. The goal of this would be to give more visibility to software that is part of the Cassandra ecosystem in the wider/widest sense. For example, in addition to launching this site, we could feature individual tools/addons in blogs and social media. I'm happy to share admin access with a few additional volunteers, or for that matter to move the site to a server I don't need to pay for and maintain. If we do want to start using this, maybe an immediate need would be to setup a backup of the MySQL database that hosts the contents of the site. henrik -- Henrik Ingo +358 40 569 7354 <358405697354> [image: Visit us online.] <https://www.datastax.com/> [image: Visit us on Twitter.] <https://twitter.com/DataStaxEng> [image: Visit us on YouTube.] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_channel_UCqA6zOSMpQ55vvguq4Y0jAg&d=DwMFaQ&c=adz96Xi0w1RHqtPMowiL2g&r=IFj3MdIKYLLXIUhYdUGB0cTzTlxyCb7_VUmICBaYilU&m=bmIfaie9O3fWJAu6lESvWj3HajV4VFwgwgVuKmxKZmE&s=16sY48_kvIb7sRQORknZrr3V8iLTfemFKbMVNZhdwgw&e=> [image: Visit my LinkedIn profile.] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/heingo/>
