On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:26 PM Aaron Williams <aa...@wi5s.com> wrote: > Meetups and the Umbrella Group- > Having an Umbrella Group also prevents or at least makes it tougher for the > “wild west” of meetup organizations to happen. For Apache Hadoop, both > Cloudera and Hortonworks sponsored competing meetups early on, which led to > tons of problems for that community around vendor neutrality. We can avoid > this can of worms for Apache Pulsar by providing oversight and guidance > from the beginning. > > Thus, given the above and that it is better for the organizers, better for > the PMC’s responsibility to oversee vendor neutrality, and better for users > and potential users to manage meetups with a little more structure, I would > recommend that the PMC go forward with giving its blessing to the Umbrella > model.
Aaron, Several PMC members have already asked you to rename the meetup groups you have created, because using "Apache Pulsar Community" as the organizer represents a big mischaracterization that wants to give the impression that the Pulsar PMC is behind these meetups. I believe any other discussion around meetups cannot prescind from that fact. Matteo -- Matteo Merli <mme...@apache.org>
