Thanks everyone for chiming in! I think this is awesome and I really want to make this happen! It's a great way to encourage folks to share their work with the community, without the physical location constraint.
I'd love to keep this community focused and stay away from any marketing material. We can model it using the guidelines for hosting a meetup: https://iceberg.apache.org/community/#hosting-an-apache-iceberg-meetup Happy to talk further about logistics and such. Best, Kevin Liu On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 9:06 AM Vaibhav Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice initiative. +1 for the proposal > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM Dipankar Mazumdar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Great proposal Scott & Elizabeth. >> >> +1 this could be amazing for the community. Have run similar things with >> other Apache projects like Hudi and the virtual format helps with global >> reach. >> >> Would be happy to help with anything related to this. >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> Dipankar Mazumdar >> Director, Data & AI Developers >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM Scott Haines <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Elizabeth, >>> I like what you've proposed, especially the format (10 min community >>> announcements, 20-30 technical, 15 open discussion), the monthly cadence, >>> and the strict no-marketing guidance. +1 >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM Elizabeth Garrett Christensen < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> I have been thinking about this too. I organize something similar in >>>> Postgres and think it could be great for Iceberg. I had collected some >>>> notes and also talked to Kevin Liu about the best way to get this started. >>>> >>>> Here's my current notes, feel free to add to this: >>>> >>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qpSWM4PtaFcI_at2LuKc0Cd2xblOannaAGIgJrAvICU/edit?usp=sharing >>>> >>>> Let me know what you think and let's make this happen! >>>> >>>> Elizabeth >>>> >>>> On 2026/08/04 19:27:45 Scott Haines wrote: >>>> > Hey everyone. Given the number of conferences, and in-person meetups >>>> > happening every week, it could be nice to start up a virtual series >>>> like >>>> > what the folks in the Datafusion community have been doing. >>>> > >>>> > They've been using github issues ( >>>> > https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/22963) to plan and get >>>> the word >>>> > out. >>>> > >>>> > Would anyone be interested in doing something similar? Does this >>>> already >>>> > exist? >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > *Scott Haines* >>>> > OSS Engineer >>>> > 408.768.3799 >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Scott Haines* >>> Engineer / Hacker >>> 408.768.3799 >>> >>>
