Hi Andrew That's good to know ! Thanks for the info !
I think we have several contacts in Europe/France we can also leverage. Let me prepare a quick first draft to share with the community. Thanks ! Regards JB On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> wrote: > > This is great. > > In case it is helpful, here is more information about what we have done for > DataFusion: > > We held most of them in spaces that we didn't pay for. We rented an office > from WeWork for the first one in Austin, but otherwise the space was donated. > > We have used: > 1. company's offices (e.g. Starburst in Boston, Microsoft in Serbia, or > Xomnia in Amsterdam). > 2. Local startup incubator (1871 in Chicago). > > We found these spaces via personal connections from people based in those > locations. For example, I knew the Starburst founders, Marko knew the head of > MSFT Serbia's offices, and Adrian got 1871 to donate the space. > > Can't wait to see what is organized! > Andrew > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM Frederic Branczyk > <frederic.branc...@polarsignals.com.invalid> wrote: >> >> Love the idea and happy to help out if people want to do it in Berlin! >> We’ve organized meetups and conferences before from 50-400 people.
