7/31 MesosCon program committee meeting notes

[Dave Lester <da...@gmail.com>]

Below are notes from last Thursday's MesosCon program committee meeting.


With less than 3 weeks away from MesosCon, I strongly encourage you to register
for the event <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon> and meet
us in Chicago, August 21-22nd. We have contributors and adopters flying in
from around the country and world, and it promises to be a huge milestone
for the community.


As I note below, we're encouraging community members to blog about the
event and Mesos in the coming weeks; drop me a line if you're interested or
have a blog post we can help promote.


Dave



07/31/2014

Attendees

Dave Lester, Isabel Jimenez, Chris Aniszczyk, Ben Hindman, Matt Trifiro

Attendee/Registration Update

As of July 25, there were 187 total MesosCon registrants: 96 MesosCon, 91
registered for LinuxCon with the MesosCon add-on. Outreach continues (see
notes below).

The program committee is having registration promo codes created to offer
discounted tickets to some late registrants.

PR / Media / Outreach

We discussed the opportunity to blog more in the coming weeks: another
overview blog post, and community posts featuring interviews and
commentary. Dave will follow-up with all event speakers; MesosCon attendees
are also encouraged to blog and share their posts in the weeks leading up
to MesosCon.

There is a possibility that the Linux Foundation can cross-post a MesosCon
announcement that we publish to the Mesos website. Dave and Chris will
follow-up.

Dave did an interview with The Cloudcast
<http://www.thecloudcast.net/2014/07/the-cloudcast-155-large-scale.html>
podcast this week and mentioned MesosCon.

A JIRA ticket for the release of Mesos 0.20.0
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1645> has been created; if the
release is made ahead of MesosCon it may be an opportunity to get more
press for the event.

Sponsor Update

Google has agreed to give Google Cloud Platform credit to hackathon
attendees.

Speaker Gifts / Swag

Discussed gifts and acknowledging speakers as a way of saying “thank you”
for their participation in MesosCon. Some ideas were hatched. <redacted>

Also revisited topic of swag for attendees beyond stickers which are
ordered; depends largely on cost and turnaround time. We will discuss again
at Monday’s meeting.

Schedule Update

Minor revisions will be made to program schedule and be reflected online
early next week. In particular, we’ll begin the program with a keynote from
Ben Hindman to kickoff the event. Morning workshops will follow.

Connor Doyle and Adam Bordelon from Mesosphere have agreed to do an
advanced Mesos workshop that will run in parallel to that “Mesos 101”
beginner workshop.

Meeting Schedule

The program committee has agreed to begin meeting twice a week until
MesosCon; Mondays and Thursdays.