We are working on it. Identifying initial funding sources and other bits necessary to help make this happen.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:14 PM Chad Dombrova <chad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Did we come to a consensus on dates and locations for the summits? > Particularly interested in the North America Summit. > > Thanks, > -chad > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:26 AM Alexey Romanenko <aromanenko....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Probably, it would make sense to wait a bit for October (or September) >> dates since the dates of ApacheCon 2020 have not been officially set and >> announced yet, afaik. >> >> >> On 26 Nov 2019, at 03:55, Ahmet Altay <al...@google.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:49 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy < >> aizha...@apache.org> 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 <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> >>>>> >>>>> >>
