ApacheCon 2014 meetups and agenda

If you want to participate: RSVP via a twitter message with #asfbigtop or an email to user@bigtop.apache.org

Bigtop community will hold two events during ApacheCon in Denver, CO:

Meetups will take place in the Teller Room, @ApacheCon, Westin Hotel, Denver

Special thanks to Jay Vyas for putting this venue together!

Special guests:

We have two special guests coming to the meetup: GridGain and OSv.
Both are extremely cool pieces of technology that Bigtop community can
potentially benefit from. Our guests will explain both pieces of technology
in greater details, but here's a few links to whet your appetite:

• GridGain: http://www.gridgain.com/blog/in-memory-computing-in-plain-english/
• OSv: http://www.slideshare.net/dmarti1111/o-sv-linux-collaboration-summit 

April 7th, 6 pm agenda:

• Lightning talks:  What your bigdata distro uses bigtop for, and what you want to see bigtop support in the future.

• GridGain: 20 minute introduction.

• OSv: 30 minutes introduction.

• Docker expose: 30 minutes.

April 8th 6pm agenda:

• Bigtop 0.8.0

  • what's left?

  • lets make it happen!

• Improving the CI: BIGTOP-1249 ~ we need to auto evaluate formatting in patches

• Maybe a gradle lightning talk ?

• Share bigtop development tooling :  How do you create patches? (i can show how i use vagrant, others…?).

• A talk about bigtop_toolchain?

• Next generation Bigtop packaging and deployment in the Cloud

  • Docker (or containers in general)

  • OSv

• Prototyping OSv deployment of Hadoop via Bigtop 

• Prototyping Docker-based CI infrastructure

     Other topics

• BigPetStore status: BIGTOP-1089 ~ if i can drum up some interest, ill walk through the demos.

• Gradle: BIGTOP-1201 - gradle packaging (RPMs are completed now).

• Vagrant and Docker: BIGTOP-1178 - lets try to get this in, its been tested.  We can look into details further.

• BigTop on Docker:  What should BIGTOP-1154 look like ?