Welcome Melissa! Super excited to be working with you on things. For context for everyone, I've been working with Melissa and offering what context and advice I have about engaging with an Apache project as an individual contributor. This is a new motion for our project and I'm really excited to see the impact this can have on our community and awareness of the work we're doing.
I'm at your disposal. :) ~Josh On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:35 PM Lorina Poland <lor...@datastax.com> wrote: > Hi Melissa - > > Glad to hear about the marketing efforts! I'm working on an effort to > improve the Apache C* documentation, so if you have questions or > suggestions about that, I'd be happy to hear them. I'm also happy to do any > editing/reading of blogs before they go out. > > Cheers, > Lorina > > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:45 AM Melissa Logan <loganloganlo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I’m with an open source-focused marketing firm > > ( > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__constantia.io_&d=DwIFaQ&c=adz96Xi0w1RHqtPMowiL2g&r=bL2UpIjL4Mm1mCbqWThJUiPD-CmTXMALsIT2Ta-KfGk&m=idt7YJPlj_-MlXoX_MmrNOwk02d_1YwoXwUrVeeXTVc&s=1dX-CHHtPCG4TsXGFb6bc31vxc6UKnduXjPRKgyNMO0&e= > > ) that works with DataStax -- we’ve been tasked > > by them to drive awareness of the Apache Cassandra project and > > community efforts. A neutral marketing “contributor” to C*, if you > > will. > > > > Our team has a long history with open source community marketing. > > Community-led software is the way to go. > > > > As 4.0 release approaches, our goal is to get people interested in C* > > and testing the beta. To be 100% crystal clear: this is about > > increasing awareness of the Apache Cassandra project, not vendors or > > other corporate entities associated with the ecosystem. And just like > > development, it works best when many participate. > > > > To start, we will be contributing C* blogs to opensource.com and > > others — and doing media outreach (like the recent ZDNet article). > > Anyone interested in lending a hand as a writer and/or spokesperson? > > > > Appreciate your consideration. > > > > Melissa Logan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > >
