On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:15 PM, plinnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:55:22 -0700 > Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Strata was a commercial conference last time I've checked. Are they > > having sponsored community slots or something? Or you're proposing to > > raise some funding among Bigtop's commercial sponsors? > > > > Cos > > From what I can see talk submissions do not require sponsorship. > Indeed, no sponsorship requirement but like you said, the conference is more focussed on business users than developers. Although, I do think a fair number of enterprise developers attend. > > As for raising funding, perhaps we talk about this at our next > hackathon. > > Thanks, > Peter > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:49PM, Peter Linnell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I wanted to bring to everyone's attention to a couple of places > > > where I think we should be presenting/pimping Bigtop :-) > > > > > > 1. Strata in Santa Clara for January 2015, has a deadline for Sept > > > 15 for submitting a proposal. > > > > > > 2. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale13x is in February and I > > > know I am committed to be being there for openSUSE already. > > > > > > I am happy to take on submitting the abstracts etc, I want some > > > feedback: > > > > > > Does anyone else want to co-present ? I would love it if we had 2 > > > or 3 speakers. > > > > > > What should we be highlighting? My sense is Strata and SCALEX are > > > two different audiences where we would need a deeper dive at Strata > > > and a higher level overview at SCALEX. > > > > > > I was at SCALEX last year and thought it was a great event. We might > > > attract new contributors there. We could even get a .org booth and > > > scare up some swag for give aways. > > > > > > To help both scenarios, we can definitely have access to the SUSE > > > Big Data lab machines and use them for interactive demos. I have > > > full access to all the underlying infra and I just used it at > > > VMWorld to great effect. The lab is powerful enough to show off > > > quite a lot of the Bigtop stack. > > > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Peter > > > > >
