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-- Akihiro Kitada | Staff Customer Engineer | +81 80 3716 3736 Support.Pivotal.io <http://support.pivotal.io/> | Mon-Fri 9:00am to 5:30pm JST | 1-877-477-2269 [image: support] <https://support.pivotal.io/> [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/pivotal> [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/3048967> [image: facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/pivotalsoftware> [image: google plus] <https://plus.google.com/+Pivotal> [image: youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPScpj2J50ErtzR9ANSzv3kl> 2017-12-05 16:01 GMT+09:00 Michael Stolz <mst...@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 > Mobile: +1-631-835-4771 <+1%20631-835-4771> > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Jagdish Mirani <jmir...@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 <mpres...@pivotal.io> >> wrote: >> >>> Please promote Mike's book if appropriate. >>> MEP >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Wes Williams <wwilli...@pivotal.io> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Wes Williams >>>> Sent from mobile phone >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Marshall Presser >>> Pivotal Data Engineering >>> mpresser@pivotal <mpres...@gopivotal.com>.io >>> 240.401.1750 <(240)%20401-1750> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Jag >> > >
