Thanks Rich -- that sounds like a great opportunity. I would be more than happy to participate in such an episode. In particular, I would love to discuss the "query engine as a library" philosophy, fostering a community to build such a thing, and how it may play out as LLMs/AI coding tools explode the number of customized data systems
I think there are many other people in the community who likely have interesting perspectives too that I would love to hear from -- so perhaps others could chime in here as well Andrew On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi DataFusion community, > > Congratulations on the v54.0 release, the new Java bindings, and > what looks like a remarkable growth trajectory. > > I'd love to do a PlusOne episode with someone from your community. > The conversation could touch on any of several angles -- the > "query engine as a library" philosophy, the expansion into Java > and Python ecosystems, the LLM agent skills work, or what it's > like to build community around infrastructure that's often > invisible to end users. But I'm open to whatever direction is > most interesting to you. > > PlusOne (formerly known as Feathercast) is the ASF's official interview > series, part of Apache Marketing & Publicity. Each episode is a short > (15-20 min) conversation with someone from an Apache project community > about what they're working on and how people can get involved. Past > episodes are at https://plusone.apache.org/ and the video versions > are on the ASF YouTube channel: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2OcwpQkYCzs8261KxC4BoB2ptHJyMQt > > If anyone is interested in being a guest, please reply here or > drop me a note at [email protected]. I'm happy to work around > your schedule. > > Thanks, > Rich > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
