Below are notes from the first MesosCon 2015 program committee meeting. Notes are publicly shared following each meeting on the Mesos user@ and dev@ mailing lists; we encourage community feedback.
Dave 11/05/2014 Attendees Chris Aniszczyk, Steven Borrelli, Timothy Chen, Arunabha Ghosh, Benjamin Hindman, Vinod Kone, Dave Lester, John Pampuch, Abhishek Parolkar, Chris Schaefer, Ken Sipe, Timothy St. Clair Background on MesosCon Program Committee * This past August, the community held the first-ever Apache Mesos conference: MesosCon in Chicago IL. This program committee was established to plan next year’s MesosCon, and is made up of volunteers who reached out following a call on the Mesos user@ mailing list. * The program committee (PC) is responsible for the conference program, and engaging with the community to help drive participation from attendees and potential conference sponsors. The PC was “blessed” by the Apache Mesos PMC (several members are on the MesosCon PC), and the PC chair coordinates with conference organizers handling on-site logistics. * Prior to this meeting, the Apache Mesos PMC voted to make Dave Lester the MesosCon 2015 PC Chair Confirmed MesosCon 2015 Information * The Mesos PMC has also voted to work with the Linux Foundation once again to organize the event logistics and registration. * MesosCon 2015 will be a two-day event, held the week of August 17th colocated with LinuxCon North America; the PC discussed the need to coordinate the program’s schedule with other LinuxCon-related events happening that week. * We have the capacity for multiple tracks at the conference, and more than double the size of last year’s conference to 500+ attendees. Specific attendance cap is TBD. * The Linux Foundation will additionally help us raise sponsorship, and include MesosCon in their LinuxCon sponsorship prospectus. MesosCon 2015 Program Committee * The Program committee will meet bi-weekly and will be responsible for: * Participating in meetings. (PC members are allowed no more than two absences following this initial meeting in order to have a vote.) * Establishing the event program * Assisting in sponsorship * Dave Lester proposed several principles (inspired by The Apache Way) to guide the PC and the organization of MesosCon 2015, which the group agreed to: * Vendor Neutrality * Community Driven * Transparency * Lazy Consensus * There may be times that the PC needs to vote, including on the program. A private mailing list is being established to record these votes. * Beyond coordinating meetings, votes, and confidential conversations, the PC is strongly encouraged to use the public project mailing lists to increase transparency. * Given the size of the MesosCon 2015 PC and the scope of work involved, future work related to the call for proposals, driving attendance, sponsorship, and other event details may be delegated to a subset of the group which will report back in PC meetings. * The focus of the PC will be the U.S. August 2015 event. PC Introductions * Dave Lester - MesosCon 2015 and 2014 Chair, Open Source Advocate at Twitter * Ben Hindman - VP of Apache Mesos, project co-founder, engineer at Mesosphere * Vinod Kone - Mesos tech lead at Twitter, PMC member, previously on MesosCon 2014 PC * Steven Borrelli, Founder, Asteris LLC. Biggest interest is helping grow community and grow the ecosystem. Wants to encourage diversity and inclusion of the conference. * Arunabha Ghosh, Director of Engineering at Moz * Chris Schaefer, Principal Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software * Tim St Clair, Principal Engineer @ Red Hat (ET) and PMC member * Timothy Chen, engineer working at Mesosphere and PMC member * Ken Sipe, Mesosphere Engineer, Mesos Contributor, Speaker on Mesos 101 * Chris Aniszczyk - Head of Open Source, Twitter * John Pampuch - Director of Engineering at Mesosphere * Abhishek Parolkar - Head of Technology, PropertyGuru, Singapore. Started successful meetup group BigData.SG <https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h4jsjB1oXDc>. Mesos Evangelist in this part of the world. Absent from this meeting: Dominic Hamon, David Greenberg, Matt Trifiro, Isabel Jimenez Initial Sponsors Discussion regarding having an initial set of MesosCon sponsors that could be announced for the initial conference announcement. Companies interested in sponsorship may reach out to Dave Lester ([email protected]) directly. Sponsorship levels will need to be finalized in the coming weeks in order to secure initial conference sponsorships. Future Meetings Future PC Meetings will take place bi-weekly, same time: 10am PT on Wednesdays. Dave will share a calendar invite to PC members. Process for setting meeting agenda: suggested agenda items should be submitted by 4pm PST the day prior to PC meeting. Meetings will also begin with an opportunity to add to agenda. Next Steps Our next meeting will take place 11/19, 10AM PT. Dave meets with the Linux Foundation on 11/06; will report back to PC on specifics regarding event budget, potential sponsorship levels, available spaces, and program overlap with LinuxCon and other events. A “Save the Date” announcement for MesosCon will be blogged and announced shortly.
