Re: [PDE West] Re: [PDE East] Geode Conference - Double the Expected Attendance

[Jagdish Mirani <jm...@pivotal.io>]

Adding Pivotal events team: Katheryn Efird, Katie Nelson (plus all the
others who helped with this behind the scenes)

Mike's e-mail and the comments that followed just about said it all. A HUGE
thanks for your contribution to this.

Regards
Jag

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Ivan Novick <in...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> +1 great outcome and great effort behind it
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Ian Andrews <ia...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>
>> Nice work everyone. This is great.
>>
>> _
>> Ian Andrews
>> 571-217-7988 <(571)%20217-7988>
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>>
>> On Dec 5, 2017, at 6:41 AM, Jacque Istok <ji...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>
>> very awesome to see the interest in this project continue to skyrocket!
>> kudos to everyone involved to get it to this point.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Scott Yara <sy...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Wow. This is super exciting & encouraging. Congratulations!
>>>
>>> - Scott
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Dec 5, 2017, at 12:24 AM, Dormain Drewitz <dd...@pivotal.io>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Mike and all! It was amazing to see that room packed! I got a
>>> somewhat shoddy picture from the stage as we kicked off.. but shows how
>>> literally every seat was filled!
>>> Also, you can see some of the moments tweeted out under #GeodeAtS1P
>>> <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23GeodeAtS1P&src=tyah>,
>>> both from today and through the week. The sessions today were filmed and
>>> will be posted!
>>>
>>> Huge thanks to Jag for driving this event
>>>
>>> <image.png>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Akihiro Kitada <ak...@pivotal.io>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great news!
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 2017-12-05 16:01 GMT+09:00 Michael Stolz <ms...@pivotal.io>:
>>>>
>>>>> This was really a great day in the history of Apache Geode.
>>>>>
>>>>> We were concerned that we might not have any turn-out at all for this
>>>>> session because it was disjointed from the rest of Spring 1 Platform. The
>>>>> rest of the show starts tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> We were concerned that we had no way to measure the popularity because
>>>>> there was no registration page.
>>>>> We knew we had way too many great speaker submissions to turn down all
>>>>> but 7 of them in the main show starting Tuesday.
>>>>> In fact we still had to turn down quite a few (including mine :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank goodness the Spring 1 app has an "add to my schedule" feature.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We got wind a few days ago that there were 80+ "add to my schedule"
>>>>> hits. The room was only configured to handle 65 people.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jagdish worked with the folks running the conference to reconfigure
>>>>> the room to accommodate about 170 people by changing the layout.
>>>>>
>>>>> We filled all 170 seats 30 minutes before the session started. We
>>>>> proactively moved briefcases off of seats, moved people to the sides of the
>>>>> room and made every seat count. We still couldn't fit everybody.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to thank all the speakers, the PDE team, the event team and
>>>>> Jagdish for all of the efforts that went into making this the best attended
>>>>> Geode event ever. Clearly Geode is up and coming. More than double last
>>>>> year's attendance. And we had to turn some away.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's start looking at how we want to continue to grow the community
>>>>> next year. And lets not wait until December. We have lots of opportunity to
>>>>> grow the Geode community in the early part of 2018.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks all for the great work leading up to this fantastic outcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mike Stolz
>>>>> Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Lead
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>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Jagdish Mirani <jm...@pivotal.io>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, we promoted the book. As Wes noted, we totally exceeded our
>>>>>> expectations. ☺
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Marshall Presser <mpresser@pivotal.io
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please promote Mike's book if appropriate.
>>>>>>> MEP
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Wes Williams <ww...@pivotal.io>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Wes Williams
>>>>>>>> Sent from mobile phone
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>> Pivotal Data Engineering
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Jag
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Regards
Jag