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| # Community Communication |
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I think highlighting this is a related to community building may help the content be found more easily
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| There are specific channels for Arrow, DataFusion, and the DataFusion subprojects (Ballista, Comet, Python, etc). | ||
| Historically, the most active discussion forum has been the [Arrow Rust Discord |
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Moved discord to be listed first and also mentioned it was historically more active than slack
I also removed the explicit list of channels as it is pretty clear now from the channel names in the discord sever what channels are datafusion related
| and `Dataframe <https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/dataframe/struct.DataFrame.html>`_ APIs, | ||
| excellent `performance <https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/>`_, built-in support for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Avro, | ||
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| extensive customization, and a great `community`_. |
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I also added another link to the communication page at the top of the intro to try and make sure it was easily discoverable
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Which issue does this PR close?
Rationale for this change
I was speaking with someone who wanted to get more involved with DataFusion recently, and it was not clear from the website that discord is far more active than Slack. I think it would help new new users to make this clearer in the documentation to lower the barrier to joining the communitu
What changes are included in this PR?
Improve the communication documentation here: https://datafusion.apache.org/contributor-guide/communication.html and mention that discord is more active than slack
While I was reviewing the communication documentation, I noticed some other minor issues that could be improved which I will call out inline
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Are there any user-facing changes?