Anirvan: it is 100% OK to come to the any of the events you are interested in. Learning by osmosis is the best way to learn.
Kostas On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Paris Carbone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We had a discussion yesterday at SICS with Martin Neumann regarding > newcomers and development groups. Even though the stream and graph teams > solely will focus on “core” prototypes and ideas it would be nice to have a > small workshop for newcomers as well. Having newcomers in the core groups > would be too much overhead. > > The conclusion was to announce the event in general to our university > mailists and friends and then organise a small introductory workshop for > new interested developers appropriately depending on the interest. If any > newcomers want to participate in the hacking sessions we can assign them > some short application level tasks (eg. implementing a machine learning > algorithm). What do you think? Any volunteers? I guess we can have a couple > of introductory presentations on that. > > We also need to track who is interested to plan for more rooms if needed. > Here is a sample registration form on Google docs: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dDZnMlRtZHJ3Z0hVTlFZVjU2MWtoX0E6MA > > If it is ok with you fill it in and let me know to disseminate it further. > Any other suggestions are also welcome! > > cheers > Paris > > On 18 Sep 2014, at 10:20, Anirvan BASU <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are starting to work with Flink (since 0.5.2) for realising some use > cases at INRIA. > Both the topics suggested are definitely of immediate interest in our work. > > My initial question: > Is this an event for "thinking giants" only? > OR are small novices (like me) allowed to "watch in" ? > (And of course, if you want active participation in brainstorming > sessions, I can lend my mouth ...) > > Thanks for your consideration, > Anirvan > > > ________________________________ > From: "Stephan Ewen" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, > "Paris Carbone" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:20:21 PM > Subject: Re: Flink Hackathon in Stockholm (October 8th / 9th) > > I forgot to mention: > > The Hackthons will be located at SICS/KTH in Stockholm ( > https://www.google.de/maps/search/sics/@59.4040169,17.9537283,16z) > > Details on exact times and rooms will follow. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Stephan Ewen <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I am happy to announce that we will be having two Hackathons on Apache > Flink in Stockholm, on October 8th and 9th (some of us will be there on the > 10th as well, so we can extend it even). > > The topics are: > > - Data Streaming applications on Apache Flink - Applications, Fault > Tolerance, and general improvements with/to the experimental streaming API > > - Graph Processing - Brain storming and hacking on a prototype of the > Graph processing DSL > > > So far, we have as topic-leaders / participants: > > Streaming: > - Marton Balassi > - Gyula Fora > - Paris Carbone > - Hermann Gabor > - Jonas Traub > - Stephan Ewen > > > Graph DSL > - Vasia Kalavri > - Martin Neumann > - Stephan Ewen > - Kostas Tzoumas > > Anyone who is interested, let us know! > > Greetings, > Stephan > > > > >
