The talks were very informative. Thank you Josh, Artem and everyone else who organized this event for all your hard work!
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 1:42 PM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > (Ensuring it goes out to all lists, thanks Artem) > > Also thank you to CCRi! Missed them in the original message as a sponsor. > > On 5/24/19 4:24 PM, Josh Elser wrote: > > (pardon the cross-post -- please reply-list unless there's a good reason > > to cross-post some more) > > > > Hi, > > > > While NoSQL day is fresh in my head, I wanted to share some general > > information about the event this past Tuesday. > > > > We got started around 9:30 AM in D.C., yours truly welcoming everyone, > > followed by a fellow from Intel talking about some hardware they have > > coming and the work that Ram and Anoop have been doing about leveraging > > it in HBase (sadly, we didn't have them in person!). Two gents from > > Microsoft Azure got on stage to talk about Azure and the HBase and > > Phoenix support on HDInsight. > > > > From there, we broke into two rooms, each of which held seven talks. We > > had lots of familiar faces, but also had some new faces (even for me!). > > After 5pm, we broke out some drinks and snacks and had a candid > > Q&A/Panel session with a spattering of folks from each community. The > > audience gave us some questions to ask them, but I also tried to > > interject a few doozies to make them sweat. > > > > All said and done, we had about 170 individuals registered, about 140 > > folks showed up, and we had roughly 110 of them remaining by the end of > > the day. We were quite happy with these numbers as the usual percentages > > for attendees to registrants is 20-30% lower than this. > > > > Talks were recorded with their slide presentation. Editing/processing on > > these will take some time -- I'd expect a month before I'm able to get > > these posted on YouTube for everyone (but rest assured that it will > > happen). > > > > All attendees should be receiving a survey to give us feedback about the > > event, but I'd also encourage anyone else to send me feedback directly > > that doesn't want to use the form. The hope is that we can keep this > > tradition going next year, but it's always a struggle. I can say that we > > could not have done this without the sponsorship of Bloomberg, Intel, > > Microsoft, Salesforce (and, of course, Cloudera). Thank you all very > much. > > > > - Josh >
