+1 for better organization. I would have gone to ApacheCon LV had I known there was going to be a Beam summit there.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:31 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 Nov 2019, at 11:32, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > The dates sounds good to me. I agree that the bay area has an advantage > because of its large tech community. On the other hand, it is a question of > how we run the event. For Berlin we managed to get about 200 attendees to > Berlin, but for the BeamSummit in Las Vegas with ApacheCon the attendance > was much lower. > > I agree with your point Max and I believe that it would be more efficient > to run Beam Summit as a “standalone" event (as it was done in London and > Berlin) which will allow us to attract mostly > Beam-oriented/interested/focused audience comparing to running this as part > of ApacheCon or any other large conferences where are many other different > topics and tracks. > > > Should this also be discussed on the user mailing list? > > Definitively! Despite the fact that users opinion is a key point here, it > will not be so easy to get not-biased statistics in this question. > > The time frames are also very important since holidays in different > countries (for example, August is traditionally a "vacation month" in > France and some other European countries) can effect people availability > and influent the final number of participants in the end. > > > > > Cheers, > > Max > > > > On 07.11.19 22:50, Alex Van Boxel wrote: > >> For date wise, I'm wondering why we should switching the Europe and NA > one, this would mean that the Berlin and the new EU summit would be almost > 1.5 years apart. > >> _/ > >> _/ Alex Van Boxel > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com <mailto: > al...@google.com>> wrote: > >> I prefer bay are for NA summit. My reasoning is that there is a > >> criticall mass of contributors and users in that location, probably > >> more than alternative NA locations. I was not involved with planning > >> recently and I do not know if there were people who could attend due > >> to location previously. If that is the case, I agree with Elliotte > >> on looking for other options. > >> Related to dates: March (Asia) and mid-May (NA) dates are a bit > >> close. Mid-June for NA might be better to spread events. Other > >> pieces looks good. > >> Ahmet > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:09 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold > >> <elh...@ibiblio.org <mailto:elh...@ibiblio.org>> wrote: > >> The U.S. sadly is not a reliable destination for international > >> conferences these days. Almost every conference I go to, big and > >> small, has at least one speaker, sometimes more, who can't get > into > >> the country. Canada seems worth considering. Vancouver, > >> Montreal, and > >> Toronto are all convenient. > >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 2:17 PM Griselda Cuevas <g...@apache.org > >> <mailto:g...@apache.org>> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi Beam Community! > >> > > >> > I'd like to kick off a thread to discuss potential dates and > >> venues for the 2020 Beam Summits. > >> > > >> > I did some research on industry conferences happening in 2020 > >> and pre-selected a few ranges as follows: > >> > > >> > (2 days) NA between mid-May and mid-June > >> > (2 days) EU mid October > >> > (1 day) Asia Mini Summit: March > >> > > >> > I'd like to hear your thoughts on these dates and get > >> consensus on exact dates as the convo progresses. > >> > > >> > For locations these are the options I reviewed: > >> > > >> > NA: Austin Texas, Berkeley California, Mexico City. > >> > Europe: Warsaw, Barcelona, Paris > >> > Asia: Singapore > >> > > >> > Let the discussion begin! > >> > G (on behalf of the Beam Summit Steering Committee) > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- Elliotte Rusty Harold > >> elh...@ibiblio.org <mailto:elh...@ibiblio.org> > >
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