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@Martijn Visser @Gyula Fóra could you please point me towards the community guidelines that I violated? This isn’t about recruiting users, rather early-idea validation, where I believe reaching out to relevant communities is the usual way of going about it.

Pitching a (to be paid) product idea is basically a way to recruit users. Or are you promoting a free / open source project idea?

At such an early stage of validating an idea, the question of whether it would end-up being an open-source or directly monetised is premature. Of course, every idea or opportunity - should it gain traction - will come to a point of question of monetisation. However, open-sourcing doesn’t mean it’s inherently not monetised. It tends to be a top of funnel for other businesses and individuals to build their monetisation models, utilising the benefits of open-sourcing: • many people contributing & keeping things up to date • reduced friction & adoption for users • spreading of the brand / free virality In any case, I wasn’t aware of any guidelines against validating ideas, could you please point me to them?

Since the entire purpose of the ASF is built around free and open source, doing user interviews without sharing that information freely and open back to the community, especially a community that is based on those ASF principles, should be sufficient already to not make such a post to begin with

I think the key question here is how much you are willing to share with the community. It’s always welcomed to propose ideas potential improvements openly even if they won’t make it into Flink. This can be an email to the mailing list or a blogpost or whatever.