Hi Ben, Thanks for the answer and sorry to come back to this so late.
>From what you described, it seems that the process to get Kafka related videos >on the Apache Kafka community web site is going through the Kafka Summit. You have to submit a talk, it has to be accepted by the committee and finally, it has to get more votes. To be honest I don’t see it as a transparent and open community approach. Requiring a submission is problematic because there could be good content, such as something based around a screencast, that wouldn’t necessarily make for a good conference talk. Also, to present at Kafka Summit my understanding is that I have to make a contributor agreement with Confluent. Such agreements are not necessary to contribute to Apache. While the most recent Kafka Summit was free, for previous summits only people paying for the summit would have been able to vote. I would say that in this way we are missing a lot of good content talking about Apache Kafka out there that would be beneficial to the overall community. I can understand that we want high-quality content on the website but going through the usual open way with a pull-request and reviews from the community and committers would be a more transparent process in my opinion. It would allow for the author of the content to iteratively improve it, rather than having to wait months for a new Kafka Summit CFP, review etc etc. Thanks, Paolo Paolo Patierno Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat Microsoft MVP on Azure Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> ________________________________ From: Ben Stopford <b...@confluent.io> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:54 PM To: Kafka Users <users@kafka.apache.org> Subject: Re: Apache Kafka website "videos" page clarification Hi Paulo The reason for using Kafka Summit videos is there is an extensive, community-driven selection process that goes into Kafka Summit driven by the Kafka Summit Program Committee. This is then further filtered by the community itself: those members of the community that attend the summit and vote. This seems the best way to share content about AK without having a complex review process for each talk that someone might want to include on the AK website. Hope that makes sense Ben On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 14:00, Paolo Patierno <ppatie...@live.com> wrote: > Hi all! > I have just noticed the new content on the Apache Kafka website about > books, papers, podcasts, and videos ... congratulations and great works to > put them all together!! It's an impressive list!! > On the videos page I read this: > > The following talks, with video recordings and slides available, achieved > the best ratings by the community at the Kafka Summit conferences from 2018 > onwards. Thanks to all the speakers for their hard work! > > Does it mean that it's not possible to publish videos talking about Apache > Kafka (upstream community project) that were delivered outside of Kafka > Summit? (i.e. KubeCon or any other conference) > In the end, it would be always Apache Kafka content, right? > What's the purpose of that video page? > > Thanks in advance for the clarification > > Paolo Patierno > Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat > Microsoft MVP on Azure > > Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> > Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> > Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> > -- Ben Stopford
