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

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