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Planning for a Dask Summit in fall 2022
Hi folks! We are putting together a working group to plan some kind of Dask Summit this year. We will be working with Numfocus and the PSF to plan a larger event that we will run around the fall. We will post updates here but if you're interested in contributing some time to help out please let us know.
@AdiReske please include me as well
cc'ing @jsignell @jacobtomlinson @quasiben as well (not volunteering them, just putting this on the top of their inbox)
Thanks Adi! I'm keen to be involved but it would probably benefit everyone to have @jrschmitt involved from our side again.
Last Summit folks coordinated and chaired topic-specific sessions, I did a deployment one, I'd probably be more useful in a role like that.
Thanks Adi! I'm keen to be involved but it would probably benefit everyone to have @jrschmitt involved from our side again.
:100: Jake is the best!!
TBD, right? I think the hope is for physical, but who knows what travel and virus will look like in some months' time.
We should make it as a hybrid conference just in case but I truly hope that by Sept will be all super free and happy to get back on airplanes and share a space together. Please give me a few more days to set up our first call. But in the meantime and since I don't know all of you, can someone please help me by creating a slack channel for everyone who volunteered to be a part of this project including Jacob S? I'll add Numfocus to this channel as soon as it is created. Thank you!
I made a channel and added everyone who has commented here. Let me know if you don't see it!
Hi Folks,
I'd like to propose a different approach here. I'd like to propose two conferences:
- A public user-facing conference that covered more of performance python / python@scale or something like that
- A slightly more private dev-facing conference around Dask (similar to, but larger than, the original one a couple of years ago)
For the first conference I would probably not engage this group directly to curate things (I think that we're a bit too focused), but instead reach out to a few other companies in the space alongside NumFOCUS.
Two questions for this crowd:
- Do folks have a preference between a more Dask-focused "Dask Summit" or a more broad "Python @ Scale" conference?
- If the latter, would folks also want to see a user-focused "Dask Summit", or would a smaller dev-focused event work?
Those that expressed interest here just met, wanted to share some notes here for everyone else.
The discussion about a user-facing public conference around running Python at scale is heading off in a different direction to the original intent of this issue. A plan is being drawn up by @AdiReske and @jrschmitt for an event and will likely be handled by the marketing folks at the various organisations in the community that have the capacity to plan an enterprise-focused conference directed by NumFOCUS.
So with that to one side let's steer this conversation back in the direction of an intimate developer summit for the Dask Community. We discussed that it would be great to get folks who directly develop Dask, build other libraries on top of Dask or generally get elbow deep into Dask's internals together. Similar to the Dask Developer Summit we ran in DC in early 2020 it would be great to have a mixture of technical talks, working time and general comparing of notes between folks who build Dask and the immediate ecosystem. An offsite for Dask Developers.
Ideally, we would put a developer-focused meeting at the opposite end of the year to a user-focused one, and with a user-focused one targeted at the fall that leaves us the spring. Given the short time frame, ongoing pandemic restrictions, folks appetite to travel, etc, that's going to be too soon. So we want to open this back up to the community and ask for more input here.
A few questions to get things going:
- Do folks have an appetite to meet in person this year?
- Is there a desire for hybrid/virtual?
- If we aimed for early summer before folks head off on vacation would that be a good time?
- What kind of meetings would you be keen to have (talks, workshops, collaboration time, etc)?
Some thoughts below:
- Do folks have an appetite to meet in person this year?
- Yes :)
- Is there a desire for hybrid/virtual?
- My inclination is in-person only, with no effort made for virtual. I think that for the kind of collaboration that we're looking for the value of being in the same room is very high. I admit that this is exclusionary. I think that it's probably worth it though.
- If we aimed for early summer before folks head off on vacation would that be a good time?
- personally, I think that June would work ok
- What kind of meetings would you be keen to have (talks, workshops, collaboration time, etc)?
- I liked the structure of the original meeting. Three days, beginning of each day is short talks, the latter half of each day is unstructured workshop top. The last day is only unstructured.
I made a channel and added everyone who has commented here. Let me know if you don't see it!
Where is this channel @jsignell? (I'm probably more of an interested listener, not an active organizer though)
I also want to flag that @freyam would be interested in presenting some of his work for Dask GSOC, maybe as a short lightning talk.
That might be a fit for the user-facing public conference around running Python at scale, discussed above (especially if it's virtual, or a hybrid conference). @AdiReske and @jrschmitt, when are expressions of interest likely to be?
Obviously @martindurant and I are also encouraging submitting to other places that might be a good fit too, not just this one (PyData Global, a local PyCon to Freyam, etc.)
Sounds great! Numfocus will go live with the event some time in mid May and there will be a 'call for speakers' section. I'll post it here.
Excellent. I'll direct anyone interested to subscribe to this thread for notifications, so they can submit a proposal once the call for speakers opens.