Looks good. Thanks for writing this. I don’t know of any other talks, but maybe you could mention use of Calcite (plus Flink/Kudu) in Uber's new AthenaX project[1]. (That hacker news thread has a few nice remarks about Calcite, too.)
Julian [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435553 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435553> > On Oct 10, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Jesus Camacho Rodriguez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Calcite community, > > I attach the draft of the report I propose to file for the 10/18 Apache > board meeting. > > Please, let me know if you have any feedback. Also if you are aware of > any talks given about Calcite in addition to those that I have added! > > Thanks, > Jesús > > > > --- > > > ## Description: > Apache Calcite is a highly customizable framework for parsing and > planning queries on data in a wide variety of formats. It allows > database-like access, and in particular a SQL interface and advanced > query optimization, for data not residing in a traditional database. > > Avatica is a sub-project within Calcite, and provides a framework > for building local and remote JDBC and ODBC database drivers. Avatica > has an independent release schedule, and since April 2017, it has its > own independent repository. > > > ## Issues: > > - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > ## Activity: > > Development and mailing list activity is steady for both Calcite and > its Avatica sub-project. > > Since the last board meeting, there has been one Calcite release. > > Calcite 1.14.0 was released at the beginning of October. The release > included more than 60 new features, improvements and bug fixes. Among > others, the GEOMETRY data type was added along with 35 associated > functions part of the OpenGIS set. Thus, projects integrating with > Calcite can benefit from this initial spatial support. In addition, > a new adapter for Elasticsearch5 was added. The adapter was an > unexpected contribution by a new member in the community, which is > representative of the benefits of open-source software development. > Finally, a cool new feature was added: the "sqlsh" command, which > allows you to run SQL queries against your OS from your shell! > > > Our community continued growing this quarter, as a new committer > (Chris Baynes) was added to the project. > > Finally, there was an important presence of the Apache Calcite project > in talks at multiple events, such as FlinkForward 2017 (Berlin, Germany) > and DataWorks Summit APAC 2017 (Sydney, Australia). > > > ## Health report: > > Activity levels on mailing lists, git and JIRA are normal for both > Calcite and Avatica. > > > ## PMC changes: > > - Currently 16 PMC members. > - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months > - Last PMC addition was Michael Mior on Mon Apr 03 2017 > > ## Committer base changes: > > - Currently 26 committers. > - Chris Baynes was added as a committer on Wed Aug 23 2017 > > ## Releases: > > - 1.14.0 was released on Sun Oct 01 2017 > > ## JIRA activity: > > - 122 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months > - 70 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months > > >
