Michael Parker writes: > On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > On 12/03/2008 4:26 PM, Justin Mason wrote: > >> 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.
I was sure Daryl was wrong, but actually, he's quite right: Hadoop is still pretty heavily Y!-driven: http://hadoop.apache.org/core/credits.html http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/credits.html although a couple of those guys are based in Y! India it looks like. anyway, that's one advantage they have, alright. (I like their "timezone" field in the committer list! we should copy that) > 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. +1, agreed on all points there. That really is the problem with Apachecon for us. > 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. Agreed. I think it'd have to have travel expenses funded somehow to be viable. basically, it would be worthwhile only if attending was actually viable for most committers; if we're talking about project direction and plans, for example, that's not much use if it excludes 75% of the active committers. > 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. good to know ;) --j.
