I've had a couple thoughts rumbling around in my head lately... first, evangelism. I'm wondering if someone from our community would be interested in and capable of presenting at a conference like MacStock:
https://macstockconferenceandexpo.com/
I'm a huge fan of running this software on the Mac, and I feel like it is one of those best kept secrets that hardly anyone knows about. I would love to see it put in front of the enthusiast Mac community that goes to an event like MacStock. We probably would need to get in contact with the organizers pronto if we were to have any hope of getting on the schedule for the event this July, however. I regard myself as still somewhat a newbie with ZFS, but I would consider trying to get on the schedule if no one more capable or more local steps forward. This event is in Illinois, about an hour and a quarter west of the airport O'Hare. I really think we have to consider that we have a window of time in which to sell the advantages of ZFS before APFS hits the streets; I still regard ZFS as the superior technical solution, and we would be strategically better in presenting that solution vis-à-vis APFS before APFS becomes the default easy way out.
OK, second topic: OpenZFS dev summit. Do any of our core developers (Lundman, Brendan, ilovezfs, et al) go to the OpenZFS dev summit? Last year it was in June in San Francisco, I believe. It seems to me that we really should have representation there, right? I think we should have a GoFundMe or similar campaign to help defray the costs for one (or more, I'm dreaming here) of our developers to go to this important event. I'm willing to put up a hundred bucks to send someone there; who is with me?
Here is the summary of the 2016 summit:
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit
Kurt