I'd also like to volunteer
> On Jan 12, 2024, at 12:27 PM, Brian Olsen <bitsondata...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Iceberg nation, > > I would like to volunteer to be on the selection committee. I have a lot of > experience from my time working on the Trino Community. I helped run the > Trino Summit’s in 2021() and 2022 ( > https://trino.io/blog/2022/11/21/trino-summit-2022-recap). The selection > committee was Martin Traverso, Manfred Moser, and myself. We always believed > that the primary goal of a successful summit was enablement and bringing new > faces into the project, while driving net new awareness with the audiences > that sponsors bring. > > I’ve written on Iceberg ( > https://trino.io/blog/2021/05/03/a-gentle-introduction-to-iceberg) and more > recently have been focused on refactoring documentation ( > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/8919) while simultaneously taking > stock of areas in the docs that need to be filled. I have also started work > on a blog series that revamps the messaging for Iceberg 101 and doing a fair > amount of research of where we need more discussion to lower the barrier for > Iceberg adoption. With the work on docs and research I’ve looked at, I would > love the opportunity to help build a speaker lineup that discusses > fundamental Iceberg architecture concepts and how those relate to real > problems that were solved. I would also aim to balance this with a healthy > focus on state-of-the-art improvements and roadmap discussions. > > I hope you’ll consider me for the selection committee this year and either > way, I’m happy to help in any other way I can. Thanks JB and Ryan for your > continued work here. > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM Alex Merced <alex.mer...@dremio.com.invalid> > wrote: >> I'm glad to volunteer in anyway I can be helpful >> >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com >> <mailto:yezhao...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> Thanks for continuing the effort! I definitely would like to volunteer if >>> possible! >>> >>> Best, >>> Jack Ye >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 9:49 AM Ryan Blue <b...@apache.org >>> <mailto:b...@apache.org>> wrote: >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> We've been having discussions about how to put together an Iceberg >>>> conference or summit for this year and one of the first steps is to put >>>> together a selection committee that will be responsible for choosing talks >>>> and guiding the process. Once we have a selection committee, we can put >>>> together the concrete proposal for the ASF and the Iceberg PMC to request >>>> the ability to use the name Iceberg. >>>> >>>> If you'd like to help and be part of the selection committee, please >>>> volunteer in a reply to this thread. >>>> >>>> Since we likely can't include everyone that volunteers, I propose that the >>>> PMC should choose the final committee from the set of people that >>>> volunteer. We'll leave this open for the next week or so to give people >>>> time. >>>> >>>> Ryan >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ryan Blue >> >> >> -- >> Alex Merced >> Developer Advocate >> alex.mer...@dremio.com <mailto:alex.mer...@dremio.com>
