We are having a meatspace meetup next week to discuss Drill, implications, architecture and design.
We will try to have a conference call-in available for this, but recognize that timezones are evil so we will also be posting summaries to the Drill mailing list. There will also be collaborative note taking going on to facilitate the process. See http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Drill-User-Group/ Drill is very exciting relative to the Hive and Pig communities because we are working to build an open architecture that will allow other systems to make use of Dremel-alike execution models which should have big benefits in terms of interactive analysis and dashboard provisioning. The is already substantial interest in Drill and contributors are coming out of the woodwork with several companies beyond the ones where the founders work providing commitments of developer time and an existing open source project committing to folding into the Drill project. There are bound to be other pockets of useful technology and/or code that would be appropriate for contribution. Jump on the mailing list if you know of something that you would like to bring into the community. To participate, subscribe to the Drill mailing list: drill-dev-subscr...@incubator.apache.org We will have a lunch in association with the Boston Hadoop User Group on the topic of Drill. That will be Friday in the downtown area. Details are still coming together on that. There will also be additional meetups in New York and London later in the year.