I wanted to bring this up again from Benjamin's original thread <https://lists.apache.org/thread/p1ql8bs51bjvj50c3535rxkp2bn051fk>. I agree with Melissa and I really think there's a lot of value in creating a company page on LinkedIn in addition to the "C* Community" group. There is a bigger potential for us from a marketing perspective to promote Cassandra to a wider audience with a company page. For what it's worth, Apache Pulsar <https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachepulsar/> already does this. Off the top of my head, here are some notable points:
LinkedIn company page: - ✅ users can "follow" the page and see posts in their feed - ✅ users can @-tag Cassandra in their own posts - ✅ reach a wider network on LinkedIn - ✅ promote new contributors publicly LinkedIn group: - ✅ great for building a community - ✅ deeper discussion on topics - 👎 users need to join the group - 👎 posts are only visible to members Is there an appetite from the project to pursue this? Cheers! On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 06:06, Melissa Logan <meli...@constantia.io> wrote: > I agree there should be an official LinkedIn page for the project hosted > by the community. It's an easy way for people to stay current. > > If the goal of the new LinkedIn page is to publicly and broadly share what > the Cassandra community is doing, one solution would be to change the new > Cassandra page from a "group" page to a "company" page. > > Company pages show all posts publicly by default, and admins don't have to > manage requests to join. Anyone can "follow" the page and see/share the > posts -- while only allowing community admins to publish. This would also > require less care and feeding from community admins. (What I don't know if > it's easy to "convert" a group page to company or if it requires starting > from scratch.) > > Then, admins of the existing "group" page could repost any/all items from > the community page to keep people informed. > > This solution could help both pages achieve their goals of spreading the > word about Cassandra. > > -- > Melissa Logan (she/her) > Principal, Constantia.io > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mklogan/> | Twitter > <https://twitter.com/Melissa_B2B> >
