Hello Antony
Pymma had the opportunity to lecture in 2017 at the Apache Geode conference in
San Fransisco, and I "really" enjoyed it and kept a beautiful memory.
I would like to provide my feedback and suggest some improvements to the event.
Pymma was not present in 2018 and 2019 at the SpringOne, and I hope that
lecturer's welcome and account have been improved.
Pymma is a small company and is neither IBM, VMWare nor one of the fame IT
companies.
Based in London, we evaluated the cost of the lecture for the consultant
between 3500 to 5000 € in expenses and travel, if the consultant stays 2-3 days
in SF. To this amount, you can add the value of the time the consultant is out
of her/his office.
So, the cost of the lecture is high for a small company, and in 2017, Pivotal
refused any kind of sponsoring or financial help.
Anyway, everyone can evaluate if going to the Spring One is worth or not for
him/her.
That year, lecturer's welcome was bad and unorganized. There were no Pivotal
people to welcome you at the reception, no one knew the room where your lecture
took place. I found the right room 10 min before my speech, even if I came two
hours before.
We also tried to get invitations for two customers leaving in Canada (just for
the lecture, not the exhibition). Our request was refused.
In 2017, it seemed that Pivotal thought that the honour to be at the SpringOne
compensated the lack of lecturer's welcome and consideration (before and after
the talk) .
Back in London, I had a bad feeling about the effort made by my company and the
feedback of Pivotal. Maybe the financial and time efforts were too high for a
small company such as Pymma.
For many years, we pushed for local Apache Geode conferences in Europa, Asia,
Africa, etc. but never get any result.
I provide this feedback to promote local exhibitions that could make easy the
involvement of numerous small companies to the Geode's conferences without an
expensive cost for them.
I hope the feedback could be useful to promote local Geode conferences.
Best regards
Paul Perez Chief Architect
Pymma Consulting
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From: Anthony Baker <[email protected]>
Sent: 24 March 2020 18:40
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 2020 Apache Geode Summit - Call for Papers!
Bob asked me to share an updated link for submitting a talk. Please use this
one instead:
https://forms.gle/4C9t9VAsQLVuQuPF6
Thanks,
Anthony
On Mar 19, 2020, at 3:35 PM, Anthony Baker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Thanks for sharing Bob! I highly encourage you to submit a talk and/or plan on
attending. We always see lots of users, expert practitioners, and project
committers at this event.
Related, the CFP for ApacheCon NA is also open [1]. Submit your talk there as
well!
Thanks,
Anthony
[1] https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp.html
On Mar 19, 2020, at 3:12 PM, Bob Glithero <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Do you have a great Apache Geode story to share? Call for papers for the 2020
Apache Geode Summit is now open!
Speaking at Geode Summit is a great way to connect with hundreds of your peers,
become more involved in the Geode community, and have a public platform for you
to share your story of the future of the premier in-memory data platform.
Call for Papers
Submit your talks here:
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fHzogly2D0sU6DQVHJsY4tBi8NDRcPAYn4vCtbjVJKg/edit?usp=sharing>
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fHzogly2D0sU6DQVHJsY4tBi8NDRcPAYn4vCtbjVJKg/edit?usp=sharing
Target talk length is 40 min with Q&A. For 2020, we are also considering
5-minute TED talk style presentations that we can aggregate into one session
(hit reply if you’re interested). We have a soft deadline of May 1 for
submissions, because talks will begin being publicized in early June. If
you’re accepted, we’ll reach out for bios, headshots, etc.
If you’d like your talk to be considered as a SpringOne breakout, please tag it
“Spring” in the spreadsheet link above.
We are looking for your most interesting, most informative, most advanced, and
most generally applicable talks on Apache Geode and the tools, technologies,
and techniques in the Geode ecosystem. Winning submissions will make it clear
that you understand how to take your knowledge and experience and transfer it
to Geode Summit attendees. For example:
* A deep dive into Geode features
* Patterns you have developed while using Geode
* Development techniques, libraries, and debugging techniques that have
helped you build event-driven systems
* An experience report about the Geode-based system you’ve built,
including takeaways that the audience can put into practice right away
* Beginner-level introductions to Geode
* Specific explanations of how Geode enabled you to build a solution
unique to your industry, and applicable to others with similar use cases
* Examples of Geode with streaming, event-processing, asynchronous
applications, or Kubernetes are especially welcome
* We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups to submit
talks!
We’re looking for unique perspectives and thought-provoking discussions that
will inform, challenge, and enlighten our attendees. So do your best to stand
out by submitting relevant, engaging, creative, and entertaining proposals.
The SpringOne Platform site ( <http://spring.io/> spring.io) has other ideas
for developing standout content.
Note: due to COVID-19 outbreak, we may have to convert to a virtual
conference. We will continue to monitor and update. As you plan your talk,
please consider how it would work in a virtual format.
Cheers,
The Geode Summit Team
