Hi - Even without an official group it should be possible to discuss improvements to outreach here on the dev@ mailing list.
There is a page full of logos (some missing) at https://pulsar.apache.org/powered-by/ <https://pulsar.apache.org/powered-by/> While that is a good starting place there is no information on that page about how to request addition to that page. I’m not clear that the PMC has a policy or rule. > On Aug 24, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Aaron Williams <aa...@wi5s.com> wrote: > > Hello Apache Pulsar Community, > > I would like to propose that the PMC create an Outreach Working Group. > > Here’s why it is needed: > > The Apache Pulsar community currently doesn't have community-driven content > channels that are unaffiliated with any vendor. We also don't have an > active effort to help identify people/organizations who are using Pulsar, > nor do we have resources who are helping to tell their stories and educate > the broader industry about these users and organizations where Pulsar is > being used successfully. In my experience, this is the single most > important factor in helping a new infrastructure “cross the chasm” from > early adopters who are willing to roll up their sleeves, do their own > research and help find bugs, to “early majority” where people feel > confident in adopting it because peer groups that they trust have already > done that research and hardening. > > In other words, there are many great things happening around the Apache > Pulsar community, but there is no unified effort to push that information > out. > > For example, we could do a LOT more to publicize the Pulsar Summit Europe. > Instead of a website going live a month before the event with no awareness, > the working group would be responsible for having the webpage go live well > in advance, for contacting the relevant press to set up interviews with > Pulsar Summit speakers, for helping the PMC define a theme of the event, > for setting up social media & targeted ad campaigns, and for engaging with > content creators like podcast interviews. Blogs and interviews would be > completed in advance and set to roll out on a predetermined cadence. > > During the event, social media posts will be ready to go and augmented with > news made the day of the event. Afterwards, there needs to be follow up > blogs, pointing people to the content that they missed and how to get to > it. Then this same content can be placed in the newsletter and recycled in > other posts later on. This is a lot of work that doesn’t “just happen”; it > takes a lot of volunteers to get everything done. And right now it doesn’t > look like it is getting done, or at least the community has no insight into > the current status of the event. Thus, community members who want to > volunteer, don’t know how to start. > > I hope this helps illustrate how an Outreach Working Group could help > organize and promote the community. > > I look forward to hearing from the community about this proposal. > > Thank you, > > Aaron Williams All The Best, Dave
