Sure; happy to help. Building the community is the toughest part of this process.
There's a conventional answer, which assumes the community building depends on the specific actions: some that you take internally and other that you take externally. * Internally, the project should focus on welcoming and enabling new contributors and new users. Things like: how easy is it to get started, how to find something useful to work on, how welcoming is the community if/when somebody proposes something crazy, how hard is it to contribute, how hard is it to debug issues, etc. If contributors get into roadblocks, they'll disappear into the sunset. In summary, you want to remove any and all barriers to a successful contribution. * The real community growth happens externally to the project, i.e., not on this mailing list. Need as much as PR, blogs, conferences, tutorials, social media, etc. as possible. Essentially, the project needs publicity and technical content marketing to bring interest and attention. Most people would stop here. But, the reality is this: if the project provides a lot of value to a group of people, you'll build the community even if you do a poor job on the tasks above. Conversely, if the project doesn't figure out its value and target personas, no amount of the work above will really help. My (unconventional) answer is: do a reasonable job on internal and external actions, but focus on really understanding and serving some group of users really well. Those users can be end-users (like enterprises), or the academic community, or any other group -- depending on the project's goals and aspirations. Hope this helps! Davor On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 3:54 PM Byung-Gon Chun <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Davor. > > Do you have suggestions to build an active community? > It seems like it is a good starting point to present Nemo at developer > conferences such as ApacheCon and Beam Summit. > I'd love to hear your thoughts. > > Thanks. > -Gon > > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM Davor Bonaci <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Signed off. > > > > Overall impression: good progress; nothing to add. Focus on community > > building needed going forward. > > > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 2:23 AM Byung-Gon Chun <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I added a (draft) report to > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2019. > > > I am very happy with the progress. > > > > > > If you have any suggestion to make changes, please let us know. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Gon > > > > > > -- > > > Byung-Gon Chun > > > > > > > > -- > Byung-Gon Chun >
