Hi all, I'm kicking off this thread to get approval to host the first ever Apache Polaris-specific meetup in Seattle! We'd love to host the community at our Snowflake Bellevue location on September 9. A lot of folks have already expressed interest, and we have a few potential sponsors lined up so far.
For this first event, we have a couple speakers already interested in presenting. We could either seed the agenda with 3-4 of those talks or host a Call for Papers––similar to what's being done for Apache Iceberg meetups. If we agree to proceed with the event, please let me know how we'd like to handle content. I also want to use this opportunity to kick off a similar discussion to what we had on the Iceberg mailing list about meetups. There's an open PR <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/13520> for updating the Iceberg site with guidelines. Would the Polaris project want to adopt the same guidelines to encourage the community to host events? Looking forward to bringing the community together! Danica
