On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
On 12/03/2008 4:26 PM, Justin Mason wrote:
hmm...
I notice that Yahoo! are running a Hadoop Summit --
http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/summit/ . It's notable that this is
being held outside the (rather expensive) Apachecon framework.
They're also in the position where a large number of their
PMC/committers are already in the same building. Having to send
people
down the hall, now down the street, further reduces the cost involved.
We're in quite a different position.
Believe it or not, depending on the week, SpamAssassin is in a
position to do that as well :) Perhaps not all of the most active
committers, but 5-6 committers/PMC members if we tried hard enough.
IMO we used to get a lot of things accomplished with face-to-face
meetings. Setting direction, coming to agreements on bugs, etc have
all happened the few times we've had a meetup of sorts.
I agree that a venue like Apachecon, which is tailor maid for this
sort of thing, is not something that can be done on the cheap for most
folks. For me at least there are very few other topics discussed at
Apachecon that would draw me to the conference anyway. That also
assumes that I can ward off the time pressures I already have in order
to be able to go in the first place.
I'm in the same boat Daryl is, it would have to be incredibly
convenient and pretty cheap for me to be able to do it.
That said, if someone was interested, with a little bit of work I
could probably get us a meeting room (whiteboard, projector etc), some
food stuffs and maybe even a discounted hotel rate in the Bay Area,
very near the San Francisco airport actually, for a meetup.
Michael
