Hi all, Meetups are an important part of community building and knowledge sharing for open source projects like Apache Pulsar. At the same time, the work of recruiting speakers and organizing sponsors [1] is both time consuming and not core to project governance.
I propose that the PMC designate a small community communications subcommittee (with representatives from multiple vendors as well as unaffiliated participants) to organize monthly community meetups. This makeup will help guarantee vendor neutrality moving forward. In the meantime, my colleague Aaron Williams has created an umbrella group [2] at Meetup to facilitate coordination there. We are ready to turn this over to the Apache Pulsar PMC. [1] we can expect that sponsors to pay for food and drink will be relevant again, hopefully soon! [2] https://www.meetup.com/pro/apache-pulsar/
