♥️ This meetup group is run by 100% volunteers who support the Seattle open source community. ✨ We’re a committed team, pouring our hearts into every event, made possible by the incredible generosity of our sponsors and their in-kind donations.🎗Our meetup group exclusively welcomes in-kind donations and does not accept monetary contributions. Despite our very limited resources, we’re always striving to make each event better than the last! 🥳 🌷Your reviews truly mean so much—they help us keep uplifting the incredible open source community and secure more in-kind donations!" This is a meetup for Seattle / Eastside users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in Seattle and Bellevue. We'll also discuss other Spark and AI projects including spark-packages (http://spark-packages.org/), MLflow, TensorFlow, Keras, etc. We will include introductions to the various Spark+AI features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and future development plans.