Hi all,
I want to propose adding a "Special Thanks" page to our Apache Flink website [1] to honor and appreciate the companies and organizations that have sponsored machines or services for our project. The establishment of such a page serves as a public acknowledgment of our sponsors' contributions and simultaneously acts as a positive encouragement for other entities to consider supporting our project. Adding Per-Project Thanks pages is allowed by ASF policy[2], which says "PMCs may wish to provide recognition for third parties that provide software or services to the project's committers to further the goals of the project. These are typically called Per-Project Thanks pages". Many Apache projects have added such pages, for example, Apache HBase[3] and Apache Mina[4]. To initiate this idea, I have drafted a preliminary page under the "About" menu on the Flink website to specifically thank Alibaba and Ververica, by following the ASF guidelines and the Apache Mina project. page image: https://github.com/apache/flink/assets/5378924/e51aaffe-565e-46d1-90af-3900904afcc0 Below companies are on the thanks list for their donation to Flink testing infrastructure: - Alibaba donated 8 machines (32vCPU,64GB) for running Flink CI builds [5]. - Ververica donated 2 machines for hosting flink-ci repositories [6] and running Flink benchmarks [7]. I may miss some other donations or companies, please add them if you know. Looking forward to your feedback about this proposal! Best, Jark [1]: https://flink.apache.org/ [2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/linking#projectthanks [3]: https://hbase.apache.org/sponsors.html [4]: https://mina.apache.org/special-thanks.html [5]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Azure+Pipelines#AzurePipelines-AvailableCustomBuildMachines [6]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Continuous+Integration [7]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/41a68c775753a7841896690c75438e0a497634102e676db880f30225@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
