Great work been a long road Sent while on the move.
> On 5 Dec 2017, at 07:05, Akihiro Kitada <akit...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > Great news! > > > -- > Akihiro Kitada | Staff Customer Engineer | +81 80 3716 3736 > Support.Pivotal.io | Mon-Fri 9:00am to 5:30pm JST | 1-877-477-2269 > > > > 2017-12-05 16:01 GMT+09:00 Michael Stolz <mst...@pivotal.io>: >> This was really a great day in the history of Apache Geode. >> >> We were concerned that we might not have any turn-out at all for this >> session because it was disjointed from the rest of Spring 1 Platform. The >> rest of the show starts tomorrow. >> >> We were concerned that we had no way to measure the popularity because there >> was no registration page. >> We knew we had way too many great speaker submissions to turn down all but 7 >> of them in the main show starting Tuesday. >> In fact we still had to turn down quite a few (including mine :) >> >> >> Thank goodness the Spring 1 app has an "add to my schedule" feature. >> >> >> We got wind a few days ago that there were 80+ "add to my schedule" hits. >> The room was only configured to handle 65 people. >> >> Jagdish worked with the folks running the conference to reconfigure the room >> to accommodate about 170 people by changing the layout. >> >> We filled all 170 seats 30 minutes before the session started. We >> proactively moved briefcases off of seats, moved people to the sides of the >> room and made every seat count. We still couldn't fit everybody. >> >> I want to thank all the speakers, the PDE team, the event team and Jagdish >> for all of the efforts that went into making this the best attended Geode >> event ever. Clearly Geode is up and coming. More than double last year's >> attendance. And we had to turn some away. >> >> Let's start looking at how we want to continue to grow the community next >> year. And lets not wait until December. We have lots of opportunity to grow >> the Geode community in the early part of 2018. >> >> Thanks all for the great work leading up to this fantastic outcome. >> >> -- >> Mike Stolz >> Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Lead >> Mobile: +1-631-835-4771 >> >>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Jagdish Mirani <jmir...@pivotal.io> wrote: >>> Yes, we promoted the book. As Wes noted, we totally exceeded our >>> expectations. ☺ >>> >>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Marshall Presser <mpres...@pivotal.io> >>>> wrote: >>>> Please promote Mike's book if appropriate. >>>> MEP >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Wes Williams <wwilli...@pivotal.io> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Wes Williams >>>>> Sent from mobile phone >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Marshall Presser >>>> Pivotal Data Engineering >>>> mpres...@pivotal.io >>>> 240.401.1750 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Jag >> >
