Hey All, In light of growing interest in Apache Arrow over the past year and the great response to the meetup talk invitation I sent last week, I was thinking it may be time to hold a single day conference focused on the project. Wes and I have previously thrown this idea around and it seems like it might be a good time to get something started. Some of my colleagues did an investigation on how and when we could do this. I'm raising this to you all now to get people's thoughts.
A rough sketch of what Wes and I have bounced around: *One day developer-focused event on Apache Arrow in San Francisco, June 7, just after Spark Summit (open to other dates, but it would be nice for folks attending the conference to stay one extra day for Arrow). * Focus on interesting use cases and applications of Arrow. We could also use this event to discuss/plan/present about movement to Arrow 1.0 this year and beyond. *Goal of 100-200 attendees. *Dremio can offer to organize the event (venue, logistics, registrations, etc). The goal would be to keep ticket costs very modest to encourage attendance (eg, $50). Opportunity for sponsorship by vendors to help drive down costs (eg, refreshments). *Still need to determine a venue but probably something downtown SF nearish Moscone. *PMC or appointed sub-committee could review talk submissions. We could use something like EasyChair to make this as simple as possible. What do people think? I think this could be good to continue to drive and grow the community in a positive way. thanks, Jacques
