Below are notes from last Thursday's MesosCon program committee meeting.
With less than 3 weeks away from MesosCon, I strongly encourage you to register for the event <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon> and meet us in Chicago, August 21-22nd. We have contributors and adopters flying in from around the country and world, and it promises to be a huge milestone for the community. As I note below, we're encouraging community members to blog about the event and Mesos in the coming weeks; drop me a line if you're interested or have a blog post we can help promote. Dave 07/31/2014 Attendees Dave Lester, Isabel Jimenez, Chris Aniszczyk, Ben Hindman, Matt Trifiro Attendee/Registration Update As of July 25, there were 187 total MesosCon registrants: 96 MesosCon, 91 registered for LinuxCon with the MesosCon add-on. Outreach continues (see notes below). The program committee is having registration promo codes created to offer discounted tickets to some late registrants. PR / Media / Outreach We discussed the opportunity to blog more in the coming weeks: another overview blog post, and community posts featuring interviews and commentary. Dave will follow-up with all event speakers; MesosCon attendees are also encouraged to blog and share their posts in the weeks leading up to MesosCon. There is a possibility that the Linux Foundation can cross-post a MesosCon announcement that we publish to the Mesos website. Dave and Chris will follow-up. Dave did an interview with The Cloudcast <http://www.thecloudcast.net/2014/07/the-cloudcast-155-large-scale.html> podcast this week and mentioned MesosCon. A JIRA ticket for the release of Mesos 0.20.0 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1645> has been created; if the release is made ahead of MesosCon it may be an opportunity to get more press for the event. Sponsor Update Google has agreed to give Google Cloud Platform credit to hackathon attendees. Speaker Gifts / Swag Discussed gifts and acknowledging speakers as a way of saying “thank you” for their participation in MesosCon. Some ideas were hatched. <redacted> Also revisited topic of swag for attendees beyond stickers which are ordered; depends largely on cost and turnaround time. We will discuss again at Monday’s meeting. Schedule Update Minor revisions will be made to program schedule and be reflected online early next week. In particular, we’ll begin the program with a keynote from Ben Hindman to kickoff the event. Morning workshops will follow. Connor Doyle and Adam Bordelon from Mesosphere have agreed to do an advanced Mesos workshop that will run in parallel to that “Mesos 101” beginner workshop. Meeting Schedule The program committee has agreed to begin meeting twice a week until MesosCon; Mondays and Thursdays.
