Hey Y'all I know there has been a lot of confusion over who is allowed to host a meetup and what it can be called. Technically, I believe the PMC is supposed to be involved in anything involving the Apache Iceberg trademark but I'd like to pre-approve a bunch of meetups if we have consensus.
Basically I would like to get the PMC out of the meetup approval business as I think this is an unnecessarily high threshold for new meetups and may be biasing meetups towards locations where folks have connections to the PMC. If we do notice that a meetup group has issues we can always deal with it at that time. Proposal: The Apache Iceberg community allows any meetups to use Apache Iceberg in their meetup name in the format *Apache Iceberg Meetup ***Some Geographic Location****. No other approval is required and PMC involvement is not required, but assistance will be gladly offered if asked. Please let me know what you think, Russ
