Danica, Thanks for organizing it. +1 to the meetup. Also +1 on having a guideline similar to what the Iceberg community has.
Yufei On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM Danica Fine <danica.f...@snowflake.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 >
