We did get 2 awesome speakers for an event at Spotify in NYC on 25 Feb. For interested, come join!
https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Apache-Beam/events/268153356/ On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:08 AM Austin Bennett <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Jennifer, > > I'd defer to your local expertise, knowledge, and especially inclination. > > Space: I'm sure we can track some down even without Georgetown, but is > great to know what is available -- we will also look to move Beam > Summit (NA) around over the years, so ... :-) > > There is value in many approaches -- and certainly we wind up with > larger audiences when speaking in front of existing meetups. That > being said, there is also much to having a community where we are able > to reach people more directly (via a meetup someone active in the > community can message -- since not everyone will signup and attend to > dev/user lists or other communication channels). The latter point is > why I tend to push hosting our own -- this seems quite valuable to us, > at this stage. > > A more recent model getting experimented with is having the Beam > meetup put on the event, and then letting other groups know about so > they can announce/share with their meetups and/or co-host to reach a > wider audience (most meetups are quite happy to have content to share > with their meetups). > > Cheers, > Austin > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:54 AM Jennifer Melot > <jennifer.me...@georgetown.edu> wrote: > > > > Sorry I've been so slow to get back to you. I'm looking into whether there > > is a Georgetown space we could use and will get back to you about that soon. > > > > The idea of a regular meetup is exciting, although I do wonder if doing > > talks at other more general meetups might be a good idea to help raise > > enough interest/awareness here for a regular Beam-only meetup (although I > > personally would love to hear from all the people you mentioned!). For > > example, there's a newish "DataOps DC" group that might be interested in > > someone giving a talk, etc (I've never been though - still relatively new > > to the area and learning about the local tech groups). If it would be > > helpful, I could contact a few groups and see if they'd be interested in > > someone giving a Beam talk. > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:46 PM Austin Bennett > > <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Looks like you found the group: > >> https://www.meetup.com/DC-Apache-Beam/ > >> > >> !! > >> > >> Members of the groups and signups greatly expand each event that is held. > >> > >> Between you, Suneel, and I, we have at least 1 event, and I can also > >> get some of the committers/PMCs out, as well. So, probably 2 or 3, > >> and then ideally we find others that are local. > >> > >> Would love to have you at least share, and is fantastic for local > >> involvement with organization (I'm based in SF, though happy to hop on > >> flights as sensible). > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:57 PM Austin Bennett > >> <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi Jennifer, > >> > > >> > Great! Happy to gather use cases, we are also on the lookout for > >> > spaces for events a-- if you're affiliated with the university, might > >> > that be something you'd have access to? > >> > > >> > See other thread, we got a meetup page online some time ago. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > Austin > >> > > >> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 4:10 PM Jennifer Melot > >> > <jennifer.me...@georgetown.edu> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > I'd be more than happy to contribute in any way to a DC meetup (would > >> > > be awesome if that existed!), including a talk on how we've been using > >> > > Beam at my org if that would be useful. I'm less confident about > >> > > making an NYC meetup but would love to stay in the loop anyway. > >> > > > >> > > Jennifer > >> > > > >> > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 6:09 PM Austin Bennett > >> > > <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> Awesome; writing directly to get down to specifics. > >> > >> > >> > >> Anyone else? > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:51 PM Suneel Marthi <smar...@apache.org> > >> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > >> > I can do talks in either DC or NYC meetups. I can coordinate with > >> > >> > CapitalOne to see if they would be willing to host the DC meetup. > >> > >> > > >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:02 PM Austin Bennett > >> > >> > <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> Hi Devs and Users, > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> We are looking for speakers for future Meetups and Events. Who is > >> > >> >> building cool things with Beam? We are looking at hosting a > >> > >> >> Meetup at > >> > >> >> Spotify in February, and ideally keep some meetups going throughout > >> > >> >> the year. For this to occur, we need to hear about what people are > >> > >> >> working on! Even if only a small/lightning talk, etc, do reach > >> > >> >> out! > >> > >> >> Let's figure something out. > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> > >> >> Austin > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> P.S. https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Apache-Beam/ > >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> P.S.S. We also have budding communities in DC and Boston, will > >> > >> >> eventually write in separate threads on those. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > None > > > > > > > > -- > > None
