Thank you Shane; I'm CC'ing this to the PMC private list but I expect most discussion to be on the dev list where we've already started talking. I anticipate we'll want to have an "affinity group" to avoid burdens of something official... yet it may be a dubious distinction if ultimately committer/PMC members share most of the content. Shrug. The cwiki page was helpful.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > This is partly a branding question (in terms of what name to use, > especially if there is any perceived direct relationship between the > social media group and the PMC. Some guidelines to review to help you > decide are: > > https://apache.org/foundation/marks/socialmedia > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PRESS/Publicity+Guidelines+for+Top-Level+Projects#PublicityGuidelinesforTopLevelProjects-socialguidelines > > Also, has the PMC discussed this and have a rough consensus (or at least > enough discussion to show there's no objections)? There certainly are > plenty of affinity groups named after our projects on LinkedIn and > similar places. The great majority are fine, because readers understand > they're affinity groups, not official project areas. > > The real issues to watch out for are: > - Making sure that groups like this note in their descriptions they are > not official parts of the project or PMC. > - Keeping the discussion focused on the project and technology, and not > letting it become merely a place for vendor ads or other brand > infringement. > > Does that help? > > > David Smiley wrote on 1/16/25 6:12 PM: > > Hello ComDev, > > > > Some members of the Apache Solr Project are interested in having a > LinkedIn > > Group as a community collaborative forum to share various news / > > happenings. There is already a private group named "Solr" and another > > named "Apache Solr" that we might be able to convince the owners of to > > share or relinquish admin privileges. We could also start a new group. > > Questions: > > > > * Is it a problem if the group is named "Solr" without "Apache" in the > name? > > * Is it a problem if the group is private; users need to request to join? > > Of course we'd prefer a public group but AFAICT it's not possible to > > convert a group's public/private aspect. > > > > The "Solr" group has 6K members, and I'd be shocked if we could reach > such > > a figure if we start a new group or use the other one. Although we might > > convince many to switch that are subscribed. > > > > I would rather not create an official relationship between the > project/PMC > > and the group. Nonetheless, if the group becomes useful, we'd like to > link > > to it from the project website and vice-versa. Some disclaimers may be > > needed. > > > > The groups: > > Solr: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ > > Apache Solr: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10319666/ > > > > ~ David Smiley > > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
