On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:09:33 -0700 Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you guys think it's time to start looking at a picture bigger than > Hadoop? After all, Hadoop is just an implementation detail of storage > for data processing. So, why should we focus solely on that detail :)? Agreed there. I'm looking at the bigger picture too. > > Another question I'd like to discuss is the content/format of the > presentations. In my experience, Strata is as far from a dev. > conference as it possible nowadays. All you see there is mindless > hoards of marketing/sales people looking for some "deals" or else. > Hence, shall the pimping be more business-like, oriented towards > folks who can understand a little bit of light techno-jargon yet > would appreciate how Bigtop can help them to improve their companies > experience with bigdata ecosystem? And while at it breaking them > loose from vendor dependencies. After all, Apache distribution of > bigdata stack is still winning the mind-share, according to all those > analysts. Agreed there too. Strata has a business focus, so I'd plan on using that angle as well. > > BTW, I like the proposed list of bullet-points (except for 2-nodes > cluster, which doesn't sound cool enough, ya know ;). So if we'll be > doing a tech. workshop, rvs & I did a presentation covering pretty > much this at the last ApacheCon and slides should be available from > the conference website (along w/ video of the deployment demo). > > Cos I'll take a look soon. SCALEX is definitely more technical and much more like the earlier Hadoop summits. e,g developer/devop oriented. I liked SCALEX just from an attendee perspective. Lots of good deep talks from real subject matter experts on all kinds of subjects, no marketing fluff. > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:01PM, jay vyas wrote: > > +1 for these ideas peter... > > > > Why not "An introduction to the hadoop ecosystem using apache > > bigtop" workshop? > > > > where everyone > > > > - builds apache hadoop, spark, pig, hbase using the gradle recipes. > > - defines a custom hadoop cluster using the puppet site.csv. > > - deploys bigtop (using puppet) on a two node cluster. > > - runs our tests or the bigpetstore app, end to end . > > > > I can help you to organize the slide deck if you are interested in > > presenting, possibly by making > > a youtube demo that you can merge into the workshop. > > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Peter Linnell > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I wanted to bring to everyone's attention to a couple of places > > > where I think we should be presenting/pimping Bigtop :-) > > > > > > 1. Strata in Santa Clara for January 2015, has a deadline for > > > Sept 15 for submitting a proposal. > > > > > > 2. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale13x is in February and I > > > know I am committed to be being there for openSUSE already. > > > > > > I am happy to take on submitting the abstracts etc, I want some > > > feedback: > > > > > > Does anyone else want to co-present ? I would love it if we had > > > 2 or 3 speakers. > > > > > > What should we be highlighting? My sense is Strata and SCALEX > > > are two different audiences where we would need a deeper dive at > > > Strata and a higher level overview at SCALEX. > > > > > > I was at SCALEX last year and thought it was a great event. We > > > might attract new contributors there. We could even get a .org > > > booth and scare up some swag for give aways. > > > > > > To help both scenarios, we can definitely have access to the SUSE > > > Big Data lab machines and use them for interactive demos. I have > > > full access to all the underlying infra and I just used it at > > > VMWorld to great effect. The lab is powerful enough to show off > > > quite a lot of the Bigtop stack. > > > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > jay vyas
