Hey JB, Thanks for incepting this. I would love to volunteer if there’s scope.
Best, Dipankar On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM Talat Uyarer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi JB, > > Thanks for organizing the Apache Iceberg Summit 2026. I would like to > volunteer to be part of the selection committee. > > Thanks, > Talat > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM Yuval Yogev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Great! >> I'm happy to volunteer as well! This is exciting >> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>
