Would love to know more about the usability comments. 2012/10/26 Russell Jurney <[email protected]>
> We got bad video that I'll post, and two sets of slides: Alan's intro > to Pig and Daniel Dai's new features in Pig 0.11. We had TONS of > questions to a panel of three (from the left: Mat Kelcey, Alan Gates, > Doug Daniels), and I will track/comment in JIRA when questioners > aren't able to do so and post a summary here/@user. Many questions > were about low-hanging usability fruit, which is exciting, as they are > (relatively) easy fixes. There was positive feedback about the new > outputSchema API. > > I'll post all this stuff once we're airborne. > > Other highlights included: > > * We flyered for the event all over Strata. I played human billboard. > * The flyers promised Cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery > * We had almost 100 ppl in attendance > * We had enough cupcakes to go around (thanks to Kim Truong from > Horton marketing) > * Mortar Data will continue to organize NYC meetups, and we'll > continue to sponsor those as well > > > > Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney > > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Coveney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am told that the turnout was really good, and that it was generally > high > > quality. > > > > I'm curious, for the people who were there, if there were any salient > > themes from the people there that would require development effort. This > > could be scripting language support, Hcat integration, optimization, > > cleaner whitespace, whatever. > > > > I'm sure there will be an HW blog post about it but I'm looking for stuff > > that could help influence what 0.12 looks like. > > Jon >
