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
>> :-)
>>
>

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