Apache Spark Community

Mailing Lists

Get help using Spark or contribute to the project on our mailing lists:

• user@spark.apache.org is for usage questions, help, and announcements. (subscribe) (unsubscribe) (archives)
• dev@spark.apache.org is for people who want to contribute code to Spark. (subscribe) (unsubscribe) (archives)

The StackOverflow tag apache-spark is an unofficial but active forum for Spark users' questions and answers.

Events and Meetups

Conferences

• Spark Summit Europe 2015. Oct 27 - Oct 29 in Amsterdam.
• Spark Summit 2015. June 15 - 17 in San Francisco.
• Spark Summit East 2015. March 18 - 19 in New York City.
• Spark Summit 2014. June 30 - July 1 2014 in San Francisco.
• Spark Summit 2013. December 2013 in San Francisco.

Meetups

Spark Meetups are grass-roots events organized and hosted by leaders and champions in the community around the world. Check out http://spark.meetup.com to find a Spark meetup in your part of the world. Below is a partial list of Spark meetups.

• Bay Area Spark Meetup. This group has been running since January 2012 in the San Francisco area. The meetup page also contains an archive of past meetups, including videos and slides for most of the recent talks.
• Barcelona Spark Meetup
• Bangalore Spark Meetup
• Berlin Spark Meetup
• Beijing Spark Meetup
• Boston Spark Meetup
• Boulder/Denver Spark Meetup
• Chicago Spark Users
• Christchurch Apache Spark Meetup
• Cincinanati Apache Spark Meetup
• Hangzhou Spark Meetup
• Hyderabad Spark Meetup
• Ljubljana Spark Meetup
• London Spark Meetup
• Maryland Spark Meetup
• Mumbai Spark Meetup
• Moscow Spark Meetup
• NYC Spark Meetup
• Seattle Spark Meetup
• Shanghai Spark Meetup
• Shenzhen Spark Meetup
• Toronto Apache Spark
• Tokyo Spark Meetup
• Vancouver Spark Meetup
• Washington DC Area Spark Meetup
• Zagreb Spark Meetup

If you'd like your meetup added, email user@spark.apache.org.

Issue Tracker

The project tracks bugs and new features on JIRA. If you'd like, you can also subscribe to issues@spark.apache.org to receive emails about new issues, and commits@spark.apache.org to get emails about commits.

Powered By

Our wiki has a list of projects and organizations powered by Spark.

Project History

Spark started as a research project at the UC Berkeley AMPLab in 2009, and was open sourced in early 2010. Many of the ideas behind the system are presented in various research papers.

After being released, Spark grew a developer community on GitHub and moved to Apache in 2013. A wide range of contributors now develop the project (over 400 developers from 100 companies).