Ok, so I finally got in touch with the right people. As suspected, all my "congradulations" and info emails had been going down a hole to @ hortonworks.com and no one had noticed despite my emails to them :(
anyway its set, I booked a flight, just have to find a room somewhere in the vicinity and get my slides together. Really excited about the new stuff to discuss (YARN, compute-vertex split, Jython support etc.) Thanks again for your help, sorry to dump this on you at the last moment or cause a scare, I was really looking forward to this, and am glad to get the chance to actually do it! On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Eli Reisman <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Avery, thanks for the response, > > Yeah it sucks because I was really looking forward to it, and had assumed > as of a month or two ago that my talk was not accepted as I just didn't > hear back from anyone I was poking at. I had no idea they would schedule me > without ever getting a confirmation etc. ?!? > > I have a number of calls out today again but no responses yet, so as I try > to contact them I definitely wanted to talk to all the Giraphers here and > see if anyone was available to sub. I would not like to miss out on the > chance to do this, but I really don't want us to lose the publicity for no > reason if I can't. > > So...if anyone is available, please let me know. I will continue trying to > get a hold of folks down in San Jose to get this clarified but I'd like to > have a standby ready just in case so we don't lose the spot. > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Avery Ching <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Eli, >> >> Congrats at getting your talk accepted at the Hadoop Summit. I've seen >> it listed in the talks and I'm sure it is something that folks would be >> interested in seeing. >> >> http://hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/schedule/ >> >> You should definitely reach out to your mentor at Hortonworks regarding >> this. >> >> Since you did the heavy lifting and the submission it would be best if >> you can give your talk. Last year when I gave a talk, there was standing >> room only (folks were really interested in Giraph). It would be a great >> experience for you and also great for exposure for your new company. I >> would advise that you try really hard to make it. If you absolutely >> cannot, I hope that someone local might be able to make it on your behalf. >> >> Avery >> >> >> >> On 6/24/13 8:24 AM, Eli Reisman wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> Any of you going to be at Hadoop Summit in San Jose this week? >> >> I applied to talk about Giraph and its future (especially around YARN >> but kind of open to all sorts of new stuff there) while I was at >> Hortwonworks last spring. I did not hear back again since, upon accepting a >> job at Etsy, I did not have access to my Hortonworks email any more. I >> bugged my contacts there about getting me back in the loop for this but did >> not hear back from any one. After the submission deadline had passed and >> still no word back from anyone regarding this, I assumed my talk had not >> been accepted. >> >> Now, I see I'm on the schedule to speak this thursday! I am still >> trying to contact folks at HW to confirm that this is correct (they never >> once blinked at me never responding to any emails after the initial >> submission?!?) and trying to work out the logistics of getting down there >> at this late date etc. >> >> So...if any of you are already set to be there and/or would be >> interested in subbing this Thursday around 3:30 pm in San Jose for 40 min, >> please ping me back here and include *[email protected]* in the reply >> too so I get it quickly today. I may not be able to pull this off, and >> would love to see a Giraph committer represented there to talk about the >> future of Giraph if I can't! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eli >> >> >> >
