Thanks for the suggestions! They are very helpful. -Gon
On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 12:45 PM Davor Bonaci <da...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 <bgc...@gmail.com> 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 <da...@apache.org> 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 <bgc...@gmail.com> > 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 > > > -- Byung-Gon Chun
