I typically attend one of the Stratas per year. You can call me an enterprise developer, I won't mind, that's a hat I put on every so often. There are a bunch of us there. Talks don't require sponsorship, but for a decent shot of acceptance a talk proposal needs to hit one or more of these points: - Relevancy for business users of big data tech, i.e. how does this help me compete? I say big data tech because the focus is definitely broader than what the Hadoop vendorship sell. - Relevancy for data analysts / data scientists, i.e. how does this make me more productive / faster / able to generate better insights? - Relevancy for enterprise developers, i.e. why would I go off and build my own stack?? Without support??!! :-) Kidding aside, there's a case to be made around agility and self service, but I think Bigtop would need to release more frequently than commercial vendors, have the components not lag so far behind Apache latest releases as the commercial vendors, and not go about reinventing the packaging wheel again like some of the commercial vendors.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Mark Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:15 PM, plinnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:55:22 -0700 > > Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Strata was a commercial conference last time I've checked. Are they > > > having sponsored community slots or something? Or you're proposing to > > > raise some funding among Bigtop's commercial sponsors? > > > > > > Cos > > > > From what I can see talk submissions do not require sponsorship. > > > > Indeed, no sponsorship requirement but like you said, the conference is > more focussed on business users than developers. Although, I do think a > fair number of enterprise developers attend. > > > > > > As for raising funding, perhaps we talk about this at our next > > hackathon. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:49PM, Peter Linnell 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 > > > > > > > > > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
