Maria put together this documents with related industry conferences [1], it would make sense to choose a time that doesn't conflict with other events around projects close to Beam.
How about for June 21-22 (around Spark Summit) for North America, and October 5-6 or October 12-13 for Europe? [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LQv95XP9UPhZjGqcMA8JksfcAure-fAp4h3TTjaafRs/edit#gid=1680445982 On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:45 PM Udi Meiri <eh...@google.com> wrote: > +1 for better organization. I would have gone to ApacheCon LV had I known > there was going to be a Beam summit there. > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:31 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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> >> >>
