Hi Matei, There have been several tracks on Big Data technologies at the past few ApacheCons and they're definitely worth attending.
Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "dev@spark.incubator.apache.org" <dev@spark.incubator.apache.org> Date: Monday, January 27, 2014 9:40 PM To: "dev@spark.incubator.apache.org" <dev@spark.incubator.apache.org> Subject: Re: Represent your project at ApacheCon >That certainly sounds good. I¹m 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/ >
