How to Start Your Local Apache Iceberg™Community
Step 1: Create a Community Group
The first thing you’ll want to do is create a community event group for your local Iceberg meetup. Here are some options for this task.
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Meetup.com: This is the most popular but no free tier for starting an event group. If you are running an event in North America you can leverage the North American Iceberg Meetup by contacting email@icebergcommunity.com to be added as an organizer to add your local events or they can add it for you. Largest benefit of Meetup is discoverability.
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Luma: A meetup alternative with a generous free tier.
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Mobilizon: An open source events page platform, you can deploy your own instance of Mobilizon or use one of many running instances.
Once your group is created submit additions to the directory by either emailing email@icebergcommunity.com or making a pull request on this websites repo.
Step 2 - Create Slack Channel
Join the official Apache Iceberg™Slack Workspace and join or create a #meetup channel for your local area. Once your meetup is submitted we will work to get you a slack channel for your group if the geographical area doesn’t have an existing slack channel.
Existing Channels at the time of writing include:
#meetup-atlanta#meetup-austin#meetup-boston#meetup-chicago#meetup-denver#meetup-nola#meetup-orlando#meetup-sanjose#meetup-seattle
These are great ways to discuss meeting with community members in your local area and promoting events.
Step 3 - Schedule Events
Create an event on your event page and post in your local slack channels. Here are some ideas for events:
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Dev Event: Targeted towards Apache Iceberg™developers, have people who have committed Apache Iceberg™talk about their contributions and proposals. Depending on location, these may be better done as virtual events to make easier for Iceberg devs to attend.
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User Event: Targeted towards existing and potential Apache Iceberg™users, these events have talks to educate people on Apache Iceberg, talks on Apache Iceberg™supporting tools or reviews of usage of Apache Iceberg™in production.
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Social Event: Dinner, Drinks an event with no speakers for meetup members to socialize and get to know one another.
It is recommended to make it clear which category the event is in via the title of the particular event. Feel free to link to this page in the event description to help people understand the types of events.