I think this meetup would be a great idea, I'll ask around if we have anyone who'd like to speak at the event.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM Yufei Gu <flyrain...@gmail.com> wrote: > Danica, > > Thanks for organizing it. +1 to the meetup. > Also +1 on having a guideline similar to what the Iceberg community has. > > Yufei > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM Danica Fine > <danica.f...@snowflake.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm kicking off this thread to get approval to host the first ever Apache > > Polaris-specific meetup in Seattle! We'd love to host the community at > our > > Snowflake Bellevue location on September 9. A lot of folks have already > > expressed interest, and we have a few potential sponsors lined up so far. > > > > For this first event, we have a couple speakers already interested in > > presenting. We could either seed the agenda with 3-4 of those talks or > host > > a Call for Papers––similar to what's being done for Apache Iceberg > meetups. > > If we agree to proceed with the event, please let me know how we'd like > to > > handle content. > > > > I also want to use this opportunity to kick off a similar discussion to > > what we had on the Iceberg mailing list about meetups. There's an open PR > > <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/13520> for updating the Iceberg > > site with guidelines. Would the Polaris project want to adopt the same > > guidelines to encourage the community to host events? > > > > Looking forward to bringing the community together! > > Danica > > > -- *Alex Merced <https://bio.alexmerced.com/data>, * *Head of DevRel, Dremio **Dremio.com* <https://www.dremio.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=signature&utm_term=na&utm_content=email-signature&utm_campaign=email-signature>*/ **Follow Us on LinkedIn!* <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dremio> *Resources for Getting Hands-on with Apache Iceberg/Dremio* <https://medium.com/data-engineering-with-dremio/a-deep-intro-to-apache-iceberg-and-resources-for-learning-more-be51535cff74>
