This is a great idea. Would love to meet the teams and learn their specific applicaitons.
Regards, Arun On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:48 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
