On 8 Nov 2019, at 11:32, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > The dates sounds good to me. I agree that the bay area has an advantage > because of its large tech community. On the other hand, it is a question of > how we run the event. For Berlin we managed to get about 200 attendees to > Berlin, but for the BeamSummit in Las Vegas with ApacheCon the attendance was > much lower.
I agree with your point Max and I believe that it would be more efficient to run Beam Summit as a “standalone" event (as it was done in London and Berlin) which will allow us to attract mostly Beam-oriented/interested/focused audience comparing to running this as part of ApacheCon or any other large conferences where are many other different topics and tracks. > Should this also be discussed on the user mailing list? Definitively! Despite the fact that users opinion is a key point here, it will not be so easy to get not-biased statistics in this question. The time frames are also very important since holidays in different countries (for example, August is traditionally a "vacation month" in France and some other European countries) can effect people availability and influent the final number of participants in the end. > > Cheers, > Max > > On 07.11.19 22:50, Alex Van Boxel wrote: >> For date wise, I'm wondering why we should switching the Europe and NA one, >> this would mean that the Berlin and the new EU summit would be almost 1.5 >> years apart. >> _/ >> _/ Alex Van Boxel >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com >> <mailto:al...@google.com>> wrote: >> I prefer bay are for NA summit. My reasoning is that there is a >> criticall mass of contributors and users in that location, probably >> more than alternative NA locations. I was not involved with planning >> recently and I do not know if there were people who could attend due >> to location previously. If that is the case, I agree with Elliotte >> on looking for other options. >> Related to dates: March (Asia) and mid-May (NA) dates are a bit >> close. Mid-June for NA might be better to spread events. Other >> pieces looks good. >> Ahmet >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:09 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold >> <elh...@ibiblio.org <mailto:elh...@ibiblio.org>> wrote: >> The U.S. sadly is not a reliable destination for international >> conferences these days. Almost every conference I go to, big and >> small, has at least one speaker, sometimes more, who can't get into >> the country. Canada seems worth considering. Vancouver, >> Montreal, and >> Toronto are all convenient. >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 2:17 PM Griselda Cuevas <g...@apache.org >> <mailto:g...@apache.org>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Beam Community! >> > >> > I'd like to kick off a thread to discuss potential dates and >> venues for the 2020 Beam Summits. >> > >> > I did some research on industry conferences happening in 2020 >> and pre-selected a few ranges as follows: >> > >> > (2 days) NA between mid-May and mid-June >> > (2 days) EU mid October >> > (1 day) Asia Mini Summit: March >> > >> > I'd like to hear your thoughts on these dates and get >> consensus on exact dates as the convo progresses. >> > >> > For locations these are the options I reviewed: >> > >> > NA: Austin Texas, Berkeley California, Mexico City. >> > Europe: Warsaw, Barcelona, Paris >> > Asia: Singapore >> > >> > Let the discussion begin! >> > G (on behalf of the Beam Summit Steering Committee) >> > >> > >> > >> -- Elliotte Rusty Harold >> elh...@ibiblio.org <mailto:elh...@ibiblio.org>
