Hey Iceberg nation, I would like to volunteer to be on the selection committee. I have a lot of experience from my time working on the Trino Community. I helped run the Trino Summit’s in 2021() and 2022 ( https://trino.io/blog/2022/11/21/trino-summit-2022-recap). The selection committee was Martin Traverso, Manfred Moser, and myself. We always believed that the primary goal of a successful summit was enablement and bringing new faces into the project, while driving net new awareness with the audiences that sponsors bring.
I’ve written on Iceberg ( https://trino.io/blog/2021/05/03/a-gentle-introduction-to-iceberg) and more recently have been focused on refactoring documentation ( https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/8919) while simultaneously taking stock of areas in the docs that need to be filled. I have also started work on a blog series that revamps the messaging for Iceberg 101 and doing a fair amount of research of where we need more discussion to lower the barrier for Iceberg adoption. With the work on docs and research I’ve looked at, I would love the opportunity to help build a speaker lineup that discusses fundamental Iceberg architecture concepts and how those relate to real problems that were solved. I would also aim to balance this with a healthy focus on state-of-the-art improvements and roadmap discussions. I hope you’ll consider me for the selection committee this year and either way, I’m happy to help in any other way I can. Thanks JB and Ryan for your continued work here. On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM Alex Merced <alex.mer...@dremio.com.invalid> wrote: > I'm glad to volunteer in anyway I can be helpful > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for continuing the effort! I definitely would like to volunteer if >> possible! >> >> Best, >> Jack Ye >> >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 9:49 AM Ryan Blue <b...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> We've been having discussions about how to put together an Iceberg >>> conference or summit for this year and one of the first steps is to put >>> together a selection committee that will be responsible for choosing talks >>> and guiding the process. Once we have a selection committee, we can put >>> together the concrete proposal for the ASF and the Iceberg PMC to request >>> the ability to use the name Iceberg. >>> >>> If you'd like to help and be part of the selection committee, please >>> volunteer in a reply to this thread. >>> >>> Since we likely can't include everyone that volunteers, I propose that >>> the PMC should choose the final committee from the set of people that >>> volunteer. We'll leave this open for the next week or so to give people >>> time. >>> >>> Ryan >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ryan Blue >>> >> > > -- > > Alex Merced > > Developer Advocate > > alex.mer...@dremio.com >
