DISCUSSION: DataFusion Meetup in San Francisco Bay Area USA

[alamb]

After our first meetup, (see #8152 / #8522) I have heard there may be interest in other meetups in different geographies.

I would personally love to support such meetups (will promote, try to attend, can help find sponsors, etc) as much as possible but I don't have the bandwidth to actually organize them.

Anyone who is interested in attending or helping to organize please leave a comment

Other meetup discussions:
#10347

[trungda]

Interested in attending. My work is not directly relevant (in the OLTP space) and I haven't contributed to datafusion enough so not sure about hosting.

[alamb]

Does either the weeks of June 24 or July 1 work for anyone in the bay area? I think @houqp is based there as is @sunchao

[andygrove]

Also, @viirya and some other Comet contributors are there

[cpard]

Happy to help with the logistics! Whoever else would like to help with that, just let me know.

[cpard]

Adding @changhiskhan to the conversation. It will be awesome to hear the story of how Lance is utilizing DataFusion!

[andygrove]

I would be happy to come and talk about Comet. I'll need to get approval and am working on that.

[alamb]

I think we are looking at June 24, 2024 as a date

[emgeee]

I'm in SF and would love to attend. I can also help organize and possibly provide office space and some sponsorship.

[cpard]

Hey @emgeee let's chat about this! I've been working on the logistics of the meetup and it would be awesome to have more people involved!

[emgeee]

Great, let me know the best way to connect

[cpard]

Just reached out to you on X

[yyy1000]

I'm a new contributor to datafusion and will be in bay area this summer. I'd like to attend too.

[killme2008]

Interested in attending. We are building GreptimeDB based on datafusion.

[alamb]

We have a meetup scheduled Moday June 24. at 5PM register at https://lu.ma/6bphole2 (see more details #10800 / )

[tisonkun]

Cool! I'll arrive at Bay Area at June 21st. Hopefully I can apply for a topic here.

[tisonkun]

I've registered at the event and I found that there is already a ​speaker lineup. How can I apply for my topic or it's closed?

[alamb]

Please email me at alamb@influxdata.com -- we have a space for you.

[tisonkun]

@alamb SGTM. Emailed.

[cpard]

Hey everyone,

The San Francisco Bay Area meetup is now officially behind us and it was an amazing experience!

A few of the folks who participated sent some feedback on lu.ma and I thought that it will be a much better place to provide feedback here on GH instead.

For the people who attended, please let us know of your comments.

Let us know of what you think was good and most importantly what could have been better.

Also, please share any ideas for future events. We definitely want to repeat the meetup and I'm sure we can create an even better experience together.

[emgeee]

Hey everyone, we're happy to announce the next San Francisco DataFusion meetup has been scheduled for September 25th! If you're interested in attending please sign up here: https://lu.ma/05lyf19h

[alamb]

We are plotting another meetup during DataBricks Data and AI event:

• DISCUSSION: Anyone around for the Databricks Data & AI Summit in San Francisco June 9–12 2025 #15657