I've sent an invite to your address. Kind Regards, Brandon
On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:42 AM Silas Maughan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Shailaja, > > Thank you for the warm welcome! I found the community page, would it be > possible for you to please send me a guest ASF Slack invite to > [email protected]? > > Thanks, > Silas > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM Shailaja Koppu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Silas, >> >> Welcome to the Apache Cassandra community. It’s great to hear from you, and >> we really appreciate the initiative you have shown. I’m not sure we have a >> formal list of mentors published anywhere. I’d recommend joining the ASF >> Slack workspace if you haven’t already—the Cassandra onboarding guide has >> the instructions. Once there, feel free to reach out directly to the CEP >> authors and the PMC members to help you connect to mentors in the relevant >> areas of the codebase. >> >> Glad to have you here, and looking forward to your contributions! >> >> >> Thanks, >> Shailaja >> >> >> On Mar 30, 2026, at 11:50 PM, Silas Maughan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am Silas Maughan, a Software Engineering BSc student at CODE University of >> Applied Science in Berlin. For the past year and a half I worked as a >> Computer Engineer at CERN, where I built and operated a production Apache >> Ozone and Hadoop storage cluster (~100 TB) supporting the High-Luminosity >> LHC. During that time I evaluated Apache Cassandra for certain storage >> workloads, developed novel undocumented integrations for Ozone, and have >> submitted an abstract to Community over Code this October to share these >> learnings with the Apache community. >> >> I have submitted a GSoC 2026 proposal for CASSANDRA-21191 (CEP-59 in-band >> connection draining). I have read CEP-59 in full and studied the transport >> layer and drain path in StorageService. I would be grateful to connect with >> the listed mentors and welcome any feedback on my proposal. >> >> Apologies for the late contact! My research contract at CERN concluded last >> week and my priority was delivering a quality wrap-up of my work for >> Community over Code. >> >> GitHub: github.com/silvanias >> Proposal: submitted via the GSoC portal >> >> >> Best, Silas >> >>
