Thanks for sharing the details Josh. Good to know it went well. >Talks were recorded with their slide presentation. Editing/processing on these will take some time -- I'd expect a month before I'm able to get these posted on YouTube for everyone
Waiting to see the presentation videos.. The ppts alone already available ? Anoop On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 1:55 AM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > (pardon the cross-post -- please reply-list unless there's a good reason > to cross-post some more) > > Hi, > > While NoSQL day is fresh in my head, I wanted to share some general > information about the event this past Tuesday. > > We got started around 9:30 AM in D.C., yours truly welcoming everyone, > followed by a fellow from Intel talking about some hardware they have > coming and the work that Ram and Anoop have been doing about leveraging > it in HBase (sadly, we didn't have them in person!). Two gents from > Microsoft Azure got on stage to talk about Azure and the HBase and > Phoenix support on HDInsight. > > From there, we broke into two rooms, each of which held seven talks. We > had lots of familiar faces, but also had some new faces (even for me!). > After 5pm, we broke out some drinks and snacks and had a candid > Q&A/Panel session with a spattering of folks from each community. The > audience gave us some questions to ask them, but I also tried to > interject a few doozies to make them sweat. > > All said and done, we had about 170 individuals registered, about 140 > folks showed up, and we had roughly 110 of them remaining by the end of > the day. We were quite happy with these numbers as the usual percentages > for attendees to registrants is 20-30% lower than this. > > Talks were recorded with their slide presentation. Editing/processing on > these will take some time -- I'd expect a month before I'm able to get > these posted on YouTube for everyone (but rest assured that it will > happen). > > All attendees should be receiving a survey to give us feedback about the > event, but I'd also encourage anyone else to send me feedback directly > that doesn't want to use the form. The hope is that we can keep this > tradition going next year, but it's always a struggle. I can say that we > could not have done this without the sponsorship of Bloomberg, Intel, > Microsoft, Salesforce (and, of course, Cloudera). Thank you all very much. > > - Josh >
