Dear DPDK Community Members,

In recent months DPDK has seen an upsurge in the amount of ecosystem
activity related to our project, across the Asia Pacific region. In
addition to numerous drivers included in the new release that were created
by Chinese startups, we're seeing logarithmic surges in the number of
website visitors to dpdk.org from China (up 110%, with 45,000 users since
January) and Singapore (up 885%, with 15,000 users since January).

We'd love to find a way to harness this energy by organically building our
community across this region - for example, by organizing and holding
regional user groups in Beijing or Shanghai or Langzhou. Or, another option
would be to work with our marketing coordinator, @Ben Thomas
<bthomas@linuxfoundation.org> , and begin sending him Mandarin-language
articles that are pertinent to our APAC community, on a quarterly basis for
our LinkedIn newsletter. We would also benefit from having someone run and
monitor our WeChat page for DPDK.

These are just three examples.

We're also exploring the idea of doing a Q3 or Q4 Summit or co-location in
Asia next year - likely to be held in China - but would need local
assistance to help spread the word beforehand, through Mandarin-language
social media platforms.

If you're based in that region and are interested in helping out with this
on a volunteer basis in any of the ways I've described, please get in touch
with myself or Ben Thomas; we'd love to discuss further. We would also be
grateful for the help.

Many thanks,

Nathan Southern

Nathan C. Southern, Senior Program Coordinator

Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)

The Linux Foundation

248.835.4812 (mobile)

nsouthern@linuxfoundation.org