A counter point: I would be concerned that Drill would be overshadowed by more “popular” or more entrenched platforms.
Drill is an excellent and somewhat unique tech that needs more exposure to grow. An event that focuses purely on Drill may have better success at that. The caveat may be that a Drill only summit may have low turnout and thus not succeed at the above goals, thus I’m not certain what the right choice is, but I wanted to bring up the point for discussion. On June 14, 2017 at 2:32:45 PM, Julian Hyde (jh...@apache.org) wrote: I like the idea of co-hosting a conference. ApacheCon in particular is a good venue, and they explicitly encourage sub-conferences (there are “Big Data” and “IoT” tracks, and this year there were sub-conferences for Tomcat and CloudStack). DrillCon was part of ApacheCon, people could attend a whole day of Drill talks, or they they could go to talks about other Apache projects in the larger conference, and connect with Apache members. Also, the conference is professionally organized, at a large hotel with good facilities. Unfortunately ApacheCon just happened (it was in Miami in May); but it’s something to consider next year. Julian > On Jun 14, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Charles Givre <cgi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > Good to hear from you. I agree that there could be value in having a joint > Presto/Drill/Redshift conference, but how would you describe the overall > theme? > > In essence (not looking to start a flame war here...) these tools are > similar in terms of what the user experiences and I can definitely see > value in bringing the communities together. I also like the idea of > multiple tracks. I was thinking of having something like developer/analyst > tracks. > -- C > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is> wrote: > >> I grok this is the Drill list and I'm also a big user of Drill (and >> have made some UDFs) but there might be some efficacy in expanding the >> scope to the Presto and Redshift Spectrum communities. I'm not >> claiming there's 100% equivalence, but the broader view of being able >> to access multiple types of data sources from a central platform is >> compelling and -- at least in my circles -- not widely known. It could >> be an event with a a primary central track but three separate >> specializations that have a couple intraday time pockets. >> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Charles Givre <cgi...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Hello fellow Drill users and developers, >>> I've been involved with the Drill community for some time, and I was >>> thinking that it might be time to start exploring the idea of a Drill >>> Summit or Conference. If you're interested, please send me a note and >> I'll >>> start having some conversations about what's next. >>> >>> Personally, I think it could be extremely valuable to get Drill >> developers >>> and users together and share ideas about where things are and how people >>> are using Drill. >>> Thanks!! >>> -- C >>
