Hi Stamatis, that's a very nice idea, I am definitely interested in attending a meetup and hearing presentations around Calcite.
Best regards, Alessandro On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:09, Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > How do you feel about participating in an online meetup for Calcite in > January 2021? > > It's been forever since we organised a Calcite meetup and with the current > situation (pandemic) it will be almost impossible to hold one in person in > the near future. > > Nevertheless, people now more than ever tend to organise and attend such > events so we could take advantage of the situation to exchange ideas, learn > new things, and meet each other in a more interactive way. > > We can have a few presentations and slots for open discussion among us. > > The subject can be anything from something very technical to a very simple > presentation of an adapter, the use of calcite in a university course, in > academia, or whatever else you can imagine. > > The duration can be also flexible, ranging from a few minutes to an hour or > more depending on the courage of the speaker. > > I'm sure most of us have some slides here and there that could feed a small > presentation around Calcite so let's make this happen! > > So are there people interested to give a talk around Calcite? > > Personally, I can give a presentation on very basic stuff on query > optimization and Calcite showing a bit of motivation and going through the > main APIs with examples and code samples. > > Apart from speakers, are there people interested in attending such meetups? > > We can fix the date and time based on the region of the majority. > > Best, > Stamatis >