That certainly sounds good. I’m not sure if people at Berkeley or Databricks will go there, but it may make sense. (Basically just not sure how much the audience there is interested in big data.. but perhaps just the ability to hack parallel stuff in Python and Scala will be interesting.)
Matei On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > I have a solid story of our commercial support for Spark & Shark stack for > real-world customer. Did that talk at Spark summit a couple of months. Would > be happy to make it more OSS oriented and present. Would it be of any > interest? > > Cos > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 04:51PM, Nick Pentreath wrote: >> Is Spark active in submitting anything for this? >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Rich Bowen <rbo...@redhat.com> >> Date: Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM >> Subject: Represent your project at ApacheCon >> To: committ...@apache.org >> >> >> Folks, >> >> 5 days from the end of the CFP, we have only 50 talks submitted. We need >> three times that just to fill the space, and preferably a lot more so that >> we have some variety to choose from to put together a schedule. >> >> I know that we usually have over half the content submitted in the last 48 >> hours, so I'm not panicking yet, but it's worrying. More worrying, however >> is that 2/3 of those submissions are from the Usual Suspects (ie, httpd and >> Tomcat), and YOUR project isn't represented. >> >> We would love to have a whole day of Lucene, and of OpenOffice, and of >> Cordova, and of Felix and Celix and Helix and Nelix. Or a half day. >> >> We need your talk submissions. We need you to come tell the world why your >> project matters, why you spend your time working on it, and what exciting >> new thing you hacked into it during the snow storms. (Or heat wave, as the >> case may be.) >> >> Please help us get the word out to your developer and user communities that >> we're looking for quality talks about their favorite Apache project, about >> related technologies, about ways that it's being used, and plans for its >> future. Help us make this ApacheCon amazing. >> >> --rcb >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@redhat.com >> OpenStack Community Liaison >> http://openstack.redhat.com/
