Thanks JB, for kicking this off! I'm happy to volunteer! Looking forward to the 2026 summit. Let's see if we can beat the 200+ CFP submissions for the 2025 summit :)
Best, Kevin Liu On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM huaxin gao <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi JB, > Thanks for organizing! I'd love to volunteer for the selection committee. > > Best, > Huaxin > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM Matt Topol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey JB, >> >> I'd also like to volunteer for the selection committee. For prior >> experience, I was on the selection committee for the Arrow summit and >> helped run a track (including selection) for Community over Code last >> month. >> >> Thanks! >> >> --Matt >> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 8:59 AM Sung Yun <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi JB, >>> >>> Thank you for organizing. I'd like to volunteer to be a part of the >>> Selection Committee for the next Iceberg Summit. >>> >>> Sung >>> >>> On 2025/10/06 03:28:19 Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: >>> > Hi everyone, >>> > >>> > As you probably know, we've been having discussions about the Iceberg >>> > Summit 2026. >>> > >>> > The Iceberg PMC pre-approved the Iceberg Summit proposal, and one of >>> the first >>> > steps is to put together a Selection Committee. >>> > >>> > The Selection Committee is represented by Russell Spitzer as the main >>> > PMC contact for Apache Iceberg who has agreed to solely wear the >>> > Apache hat. There are a total of 3 members from the Apache Iceberg PMC >>> > in the Selection Committee.The affiliations of all members of the >>> > Selection Committee will be clearly listed in the final version of the >>> > proposal. >>> > The Selection Committee will have 11 members. The main responsibility >>> > of the Selection Committee is to coordinate on the agenda, define the >>> > tracks, and choose all the sessions that will be featured at the 2026 >>> > Iceberg Summit NA. >>> > >>> > Once we have the committee, I will complete the >>> > proposal for the ASF and the Iceberg PMC to request the ability to use >>> > the name Iceberg/Apache 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 up to Oct 24th. >>> > >>> > NB: I'd like to help in the Selection Committee, so I'm volunteer :) >>> > >>> > Thanks ! >>> > Regards >>> > JB >>> > >>> > NB: if your company wants to sponsor and/or help the organization, >>> > please send a message to me directly ([email protected]) or a PMC >>> > member, we will route and include in the Organization Committee. >>> > >>> >>
