Sounds great. Quilt Data may be able to sponsor some of the refreshment costs.
---- Kevin Moore CEO, Quilt Data, Inc. ke...@quiltdata.io | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinemoore/> (415) 497-7895 Manage Data like Code quiltdata.com On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Li Jin <ice.xell...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd love to attend. I will be around for Spark Summit. > > Li > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:48 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 > > >
