Hello Mesos Community! About a week ago I had an email exchange with the Mesos PMC regarding the future of MesosCon, the community-driven conference for the Apache Mesos community. This is an abbreviated version of that email — I wanted to make sure we are transparent about where things stand, and give a peak at next year!
MesosCon in 2016 We’re looking at holding three MesosCon events in 2016: North America in (early) June, MesosCon Europe (date TBD), and to expand the conference internationally with MesosCon China (end of year, possibly December). The Linux Foundation will continue to handle logistics and sponsorship for these events, and we’re excited to continue our relationship with them as we grow the conference in scale and internationally. The only potential difference is that our 2016 events may be stand-alone instead of co-located with LinuxCon. An announcement regarding the location and dates for MesosCon North American 2016 should be made in early January. We’ll keep the mailing lists up-to-date on MesosCon Europe and MesosCon China as well, and the Linux Foundation has already begun exploring locations in Europe. Structure of MesosCon Program Committee Following the first two MesosCon events (Chicago 2014, Seattle 2015) where I was conference chair, we shook up our organizational structure for MesosCon Europe 2015 by adopting a conference chair trio, including myself (independent), David Greenberg (Two Sigma), and Kiersten Gaffney (Mesosphere). Why the structure of three co-chairs? To ensure there aren’t bottle-necks in the planning process, to better divide up the conference work without having too many people involved, and to ensure balanced representation and neutral participation — no one company or group will dominate the direction or organization of the conference. Final decisions are being made by the three of us. Coming out of MesosCon Europe, we’ve continued that structure and have also included Chris Schaefer and Chris Aniszczyk in the provisional planning of 2016 conferences given their consistent participation in planning previous events. The idea is to add additional program committee members as needed and during the proposal review process, but finalize the basics before we grow our ranks — we’ll let the mailing lists know if/when we need your help! If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, let us know! We look forward to sharing future updates, and seeing you at a MesosCon in 2016! Dave
