On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:49 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Sounds good to me. IMO, October 12-13 for Europe is better, in between related flink and spark summits. > > [1] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LQv95XP9UPhZjGqcMA8JksfcAure-fAp4h3TTjaafRs/edit#gid=1680445982 > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 4:45 PM Udi Meiri <[email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8 Nov 2019, at 11:32, Maximilian Michels <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] <mailto: >>> [email protected]>> 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 >>> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 < >>> [email protected] >>> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 >>> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>>
