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The Podling Shark Tank event will take place as part of ApacheCON CORE NA 2017 in Miami: https://s.apache.org/acna2017_shark_tank and ALSO as part of ApacheCON Big data: http://sched.co/Adwa (YES! WE ARE THAT POPULAR!)
The idea here is to have folks present a very short pitch for the (no more than 10 min) podlings they are passionate about. You don't have to be a developer, a PPMC or a mentor. You just have to be passionate about the podling. One rule only: you WILL be mercilessly booted of the stage at the end of your 10 minutes though.
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