Hey team, I am about a two-hour flight away from Glasgow so I could potentially attend the conference and help with the Hackathon!
I am rather new to Impala but have experience with Calcite so I could help advance work in this area, such as tickets falling under: * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-12871 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-14404 Since I am not an Impala committer it would be nice to have someone alongside me that is more familiar with the project. If there is interest I can try to confirm my availability for the conference. Best, Stamatis On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Impala community, > > > > We're organizing a hackathon at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 (October > > 11–14) and Impala has sessions on the schedule. We'd love for your > > community to participate. > > > > The idea is simple: dedicated time and space at the conference for > > contributors (new and existing) to work together on real tasks — fixing > > bugs, writing docs, tackling issues that need focused attention, or > > onboarding new contributors. > > > > To participate, we'd need a few things from your project: > > • A point of contact — someone we can coordinate with on logistics and > > who'll be present at the event. > > • A list of tasks — bugs, docs, features, good-first-issues, or whatever > > your project wants to focus on. This helps people show up ready to > > contribute rather than spending the first hour figuring out what to work on. > > • Promotion — a message to your dev@ and users@ lists letting people > > know this is happening and encouraging them to attend. > > > > This is the first year we're bringing the hackathon back, so we're treating > > it as a pilot — we want to gauge interest before committing to scale. Even > > if only a few contributors from your project can participate, that's a > > great start. > > > > If you're interested, please reply here or reach out to me directly. Even a > > quick "yes, we're in" or "maybe, let's talk" is helpful as we figure out > > how many projects to plan for. > > > > Also, please join us in the #hackathon channel on the ApacheCon Slack — > > that's where we'll be coordinating as things come together: > > http://s.apache.org/apachecon-slack > > > > Thanks, > > Rich, on behalf of the Community Over Code planners > > > — > Rich Bowen > [email protected] > > > >
