Is this the final draft? - we had 2 beam talks at Big Data Tech Warsaw last
Wednesday - I can send the updates offline.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:16 PM Rose Nguyen <rtngu...@google.com> wrote:

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> [image: Beam.png]
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> February-March 2019 | Newsletter
>
> What’s been done
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Apache Beam 2.10.0 released (by: many contributors)
>
>    -
>
>    Download the release here.
>    <https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/>
>    -
>
>    See the blog post
>    <https://beam.apache.org/blog/2019/02/15/beam-2.10.0.html> for more
>    details.
>
>
> Apache Beam awarded the 2019 Technology of the Year Award!
>
>    -
>
>    InfoWorld just awarded Beam the 2019 Technology of the Year Award.
>    -
>
>    See this  article
>    
> <https://www.infoworld.com/article/3336072/application-development/infoworlds-2019-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html?nsdr=true>
>    for more details.
>
>
> Kettle Beam 0.5 released with support for flink (by: Matt Casters)
>
>    -
>
>    Kettle now supports Apache Flink as well as Cloud Dataflow and Spark.
>    -
>
>    See Matt’s Blog
>    
> <http://sandbox.kettle.be/wordpress/index.php/2019/02/24/kettle-beam-update-0-5-0/>
>    for more details.
>
>
>
> What we’re working on...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Apache Beam 2.11.0 release (by: many contributors)
>
>
> Hive Metastore Table provider for SQL (by: Anton Kedin)
>
>    -
>
>    Support for plugging table providers through Beam SQL API to allow
>    obtaining table schemas from external sources.
>    -
>
>    See the PR <https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/7746> for more details.
>
>
> User Defined Coders for the Beam Go SDK (by: Robert Burke)
>
>    -
>
>    Working on expanding the variety of user defined types that can be a
>    member of a PCollection in the Go SDK.
>    -
>
>    See BEAM-3306 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3306> for
>    more details.
>
>
> Python 3 (by: Ahmet Altay, Robert Bradshaw, Charles Chen, Mark Liu, Robbe
> Sneyders, Juta Staes, Valentyn Tymofieiev)
>
>    -
>
>    Beam 2.11.0 is the first release offering partial Python 3 support.
>    -
>
>    Many thanks to all contributors who helped to reach this milestone.
>    -
>
>    IO availablility on Python 3 is currently limited and only Python 3.5
>    version has been tested extensively.
>    -
>
>    Stay tuned on BEAM-1251 for more details.
>
>
> Notebooks for quickstarts and custom I/O (by: David Cavazos)
>
>    -
>
>    Adding IPython notebooks and snippets
>    -
>
>    See [BEAM-6557] <https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/7679> for more
>    details.
>
>
>
>
>      New members
> ------------------------------
>
> New PMC member!
>
>    -
>
>    Etienne Chauchot, Nantes, France
>
>
> New Committers!
>
>    -
>
>    Gleb Kanterov, Stockholm, Sweden
>    -
>
>    Michael Luckey
>
>
> New Contributors!
>
>    -
>
>    Kyle Weaver, San Francisco, CA
>    -
>
>       Would like to help begin implementing portability support for the
>       Spark runner
>       -
>
>    Tanay Tummapalli, Delhi, India
>    -
>
>       Would like to contribute to Open Source this summer as part of
>       Google Summer of Code
>       -
>
>    Brian Hulette, Seattle, WA
>    -
>
>       Contributing to Beam Portability
>       -
>
>    Michał Walenia, Warsaw, Poland
>    -
>
>       Working on integration and load testing
>       -
>
>    Daniel Chen, San Francisco, CA
>    -
>
>       Working on Beam Samza runner
>
>
>
>      Talks & meetups
> ------------------------------
>
>
> Plugin Machine Intelligence and Apache Beam with Pentaho - Feb 7 @ London
>
>    -
>
>    Watch the How to Run Kettle on Apache Beam video here
>    
> <https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/13405-how-to-run-kettle-on-apache-beam#video>.
>
>    -
>
>    See event details here
>    <https://www.meetup.com/Pentaho-London-User-Group/events/256773962/>..
>
>
> Beam @Lyft / Streaming, TensorFlow and use-cases - Feb 7 @ San Francisco,
> CA
>
>    -
>
>    Organized by Thomas Weise and Austin Bennet, with speakers Tyler
>    Akidau, Robert Crowe, Thomas Weise and Amar Pai
>    -
>
>    See event details here
>    <https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Beam/events/257482350/>
>    and the slides for these presentation: Overview of Apache Beam and
>    TensorFlow Transform (TFX) with Apache Beam
>    <http://s.apache.org/beam-intro-feb-2019>, Python Streaming Pipelines
>    with Beam on Flink <http://go.lyft.com/python-flink-beam-meetup-2019>, 
> Dynamic
>    pricing of Lyft rides using streaming
>    
> <https://www.slideshare.net/AmarPai2/dynamic-pricing-of-lyft-rides-using-streaming>
>
> .
>
> Flink meetup - Feb 21@ Seattle, WA
>
>    -
>
>    Speakers from Alibaba, Google, and Uber gave talks about Apache Flink
>    with Hive, Tensorflow, Beam, and AthenaX.
>    -
>
>    See event details here
>    <https://www.meetup.com/seattle-flink/events/258723322/> and
>    presentations here <https://www.slideshare.net/BowenLi9/presentations>.
>
>
>
> Beam Summit Europe 2019 - June 19-20 @ Berlin
>
>    -
>
>    Beam Summit Europe 2019 will take place in Berlin on June 19-20.
>    -
>
>    Speaker CfP and other details to follow soon!
>    -
>
>    Twitter announcement!
>    <https://twitter.com/matthiasbaetens/status/1098854758893273088>
>
>
>
>      Resources
> ------------------------------
>
> Apache Jira Beginner’s Guide (by:  Daniel Oliveira)
>
>    -
>
>    A guide
>    
> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Beam+Jira+Beginner%27s+Guide>
>    to introduce Beam contributors to the basics of using the Apache Jira for
>    Beam development. Feedback welcomed!
>
>
> An approach to community building from Apache Beam (by: Kenn Knowles)
>
>    -
>
>    The Apache Software Foundation has published committer guidelines to
>    help Beam's community building work.
>    -
>
>    See the post <https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/date/20190222> on the
>    ASF blog.
>
>
> Exploring Beam SQL on Google Cloud Platform (by: Graham Polley)
>
>    -
>
>    “In this article, I’ll dive into this new feature of Beam, and see how
>    it works by using a pipeline to read a data file from GCS, transform it,
>    and then perform a basic calculation on the values contained in the file”.
>    -
>
>    See article
>    
> <https://medium.com/weareservian/exploring-beam-sql-on-google-cloud-platform-b6c77f9b4af4>
>    and full source code
>    
> <https://github.com/polleyg/gcp-batch-ingestion-bigquery/blob/beam_sql/src/main/java/org/polleyg/BeamSQLMagic.java>
>    .
>
>
> *Until Next Time!*
> --
> Rose Thị Nguyễn
>

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