Hi all, Did we come to a consensus on dates and locations for the summits? Particularly interested in the North America Summit.
Thanks, -chad On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:26 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> wrote: > Probably, it would make sense to wait a bit for October (or September) > dates since the dates of ApacheCon 2020 have not been officially set and > announced yet, afaik. > > > On 26 Nov 2019, at 03:55, Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:49 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy < > aizha...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Maria put together this documents with related industry conferences [1], >> it would make sense to choose a time that doesn't conflict with other >> events around projects close to Beam. >> >> How about for June 21-22 (around Spark Summit) for North America, and >> October 5-6 or October 12-13 for Europe? >> > > Sounds good to me. IMO, October 12-13 for Europe is better, in between > related flink and spark summits. > > >> >> [1] >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LQv95XP9UPhZjGqcMA8JksfcAure-fAp4h3TTjaafRs/edit#gid=1680445982 >> >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:45 PM Udi Meiri <eh...@google.com> wrote: >> >>> +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> >>>> >>>> >
