Hi Danica, This is a great idea! I think a community sprint would be a fun and productive way to connect contributors, align on roadmap priorities, and onboard new folks. I’d be happy to help plan or participate once we settle on timing and location.
Yufei On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM Adam Christian < [email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea, Danica! Thanks for proposing it! > > Go community, > > Adam > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Danica, > > > > Sounds like a fantastic idea! This actually came up during the Seattle > > Iceberg meetup, and a lot of folks in the Iceberg community were really > > excited about it. > > I think the Polaris community would find it helpful too, and I’d be happy > > to participate! > > > > Best, > > Kevin Liu > > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM Danica Fine > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Ahead of graduation (fingers crossed!), it would be great if we could > > grow > > > the Polaris community, encourage more contributions, and bring folks > > > together to ideate and collaborate in person. I was specifically > inspired > > > by what I've seen over the years in the Jupyter Community > > > < > > > > > > https://jupytercon2025.sched.com/event/28H6G/community-sprints-pre-registration-required?iframe=no > > > > > > > where they regularly schedule time for 10-20+ folks to gather together > > for > > > a day to roadmap and work on open issues. It's also a great way to > > > encourage PRs from net-new contributors. > > > > > > Is this something that the community would be interested in? > > > > > > If so, I can work with the PPMC to get official approval to put > something > > > on the calendar in the coming months! > > > > > > Best, > > > Danica > > > > > >
