I am an organizer with a conference (GR8Conf US) here in Minneapolis I would be happy to assist with organizing and we also have recording equipment to support up to 3 tracks. We operate under a non profit already if we need a legal entity.
If it is the bay area I we can't help much with space but we have contacts here if there is any desire to have it in the midwest. Jeff On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:25 PM Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > The year has gotten away from us a little bit, but now is as good a time as > any to put out a general call for interest in an NGCC this year. > > Last year Gary and Eric did an awesome job organizing it in San Antonio. > This year it might be a good idea to do it in another city? > > We at Instaclustr are happy to sponsor/organize/run it, but ultimately this > is a community event and we only want to do it if there is a strong desire > to attend from the community and it meets the wider needs. > > Here are a few thoughts we have had in no particular order: > > - I was thinking it might be worth doing it in SF/Bay Area around the > dates of distributed data day (14th of September) as I know a number of > folks will be in town for it. > - Typically NGCC has focused on being a single day, single track > conference with scheduled sessions and an unconference set of ad-hoc > talks > at the end. It may make sense to change this up given the pending freeze > (maybe make this more like a commit/review fest)? Or keep it in the same > format but focus on the 4.0 work at hand. > - Any community members who want to get involved again in the more > organizational side of it (Gary, Eric)? > - Any other sponsors (doesn't have to be monetary, can be space, > resource etc) who want to get involved? > > If folks are generally happy with the end approach we'll post details as > soon as possible (given its July right now)! > > Ben > > > -- > Ben Bromhead > CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> > +1 650 284 9692 <(650)%20284-9692> > Reliability at Scale > Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer >
