Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Patrick McFadin]

Sorry Ben. Instaclustr. My spell checker keeps buying vowels.

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> +1 to what Ben said. Lynn Bender has a great reputation for building
> vendor-neutral events and this is shaping up to be a really good one for
> the Cassandra community. I'm devoting a lot of DataStax resources to it and
> I know Ben is doing the same at Instacluster.
>
> Now that being said. If you want a truly amazing event, we need good
> talks! This is always a struggle for any event. If you have a great topic,
> don't be shy. Please speak up. If you need some help getting your talk
> together, I would be more than happy to help you. Let's make this a great
> event for the community.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>
>> Distributed Data Day is shaping up to look like a Cassandra related
>> summit. See http://distributeddatasummit.com/2018-sf/speakers
>>
>> You'll most likely see all the same familiar faces and familiar vendors :)
>>
>> However note it is not the official Apache Cassandra Summit and it is
>> being run by a for profit group.
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 5:33 AM Horia Mocioi <horia.moc...@ericsson.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Are there any updates on this event?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Horia
>>>
>>> On tis, 2018-02-27 at 11:42 +, Carlos Rolo wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon,
>>> Portugal in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm
>>> possible dates.
>>>
>>> Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be
>>> interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Carlos Juzarte Rolo
>>> Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP
>>>
>>> Pythian - Love your data
>>>
>>> rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin:
>>> *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo
>>> <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>*
>>> Mobile: +351 918 918 100 <+351%20918%20918%20100>
>>> www.pythian.com
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman <
>>> kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you
>>> set a firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on
>>> track is nerve racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit
>>> 2016, I think we are should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even
>>> trying to meet the timeline for everything that would have to come together
>>> makes 2019 too nerve racking a target date.  The steps should be:
>>>
>>> Form a planning committee
>>>
>>> Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
>>>
>>> Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do
>>> the heavy lifting for us
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous
>>> Cassandra Convention which offers four benefits:
>>>
>>> It allows us to address the fact that we are a
>>> world-wide group that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one
>>> is geographically disadvantaged
>>>
>>> No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees
>>> makes it accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
>>>
>>> The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us
>>> to reach implementation sooner
>>>
>>> It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kenneth Brotman
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
>>> *To:* cassandra
>>> *Subject:* Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference),
>>> which was developer/development focused (vs user focused).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer confere

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Patrick McFadin]

+1 to what Ben said. Lynn Bender has a great reputation for building
vendor-neutral events and this is shaping up to be a really good one for
the Cassandra community. I'm devoting a lot of DataStax resources to it and
I know Ben is doing the same at Instacluster.

Now that being said. If you want a truly amazing event, we need good talks!
This is always a struggle for any event. If you have a great topic, don't
be shy. Please speak up. If you need some help getting your talk together,
I would be more than happy to help you. Let's make this a great event for
the community.

Patrick

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Ben Bromhead <b...@instaclustr.com> wrote:

> Distributed Data Day is shaping up to look like a Cassandra related
> summit. See http://distributeddatasummit.com/2018-sf/speakers
>
> You'll most likely see all the same familiar faces and familiar vendors :)
>
> However note it is not the official Apache Cassandra Summit and it is
> being run by a for profit group.
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 5:33 AM Horia Mocioi <horia.moc...@ericsson.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Are there any updates on this event?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Horia
>>
>> On tis, 2018-02-27 at 11:42 +, Carlos Rolo wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon,
>> Portugal in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm
>> possible dates.
>>
>> Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be
>> interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Carlos Juzarte Rolo
>> Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP
>>
>> Pythian - Love your data
>>
>> rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin:
>> *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo
>> <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>*
>> Mobile: +351 918 918 100 <+351%20918%20918%20100>
>> www.pythian.com
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman <
>> kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you
>> set a firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on
>> track is nerve racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit
>> 2016, I think we are should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even
>> trying to meet the timeline for everything that would have to come together
>> makes 2019 too nerve racking a target date.  The steps should be:
>>
>> Form a planning committee
>>
>> Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
>>
>> Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the
>> heavy lifting for us
>>
>>
>>
>> In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous
>> Cassandra Convention which offers four benefits:
>>
>> It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide
>> group that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is
>> geographically disadvantaged
>>
>> No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees
>> makes it accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
>>
>> The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us
>> to reach implementation sooner
>>
>> It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenneth Brotman
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
>> *To:* cassandra
>> *Subject:* Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
>>
>>
>>
>> Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference),
>> which was developer/development focused (vs user focused).
>>
>>
>>
>> For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a
>> user conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's
>> fairly obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event
>> planners, so it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but
>> we're doing our best to try to put something together.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <
>> rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I
>> really wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to 

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Ben Bromhead]

Distributed Data Day is shaping up to look like a Cassandra related summit.
See http://distributeddatasummit.com/2018-sf/speakers

You'll most likely see all the same familiar faces and familiar vendors :)

However note it is not the official Apache Cassandra Summit and it is being
run by a for profit group.

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 5:33 AM Horia Mocioi <horia.moc...@ericsson.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Are there any updates on this event?
>
> Regards,
> Horia
>
> On tis, 2018-02-27 at 11:42 +, Carlos Rolo wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon,
> Portugal in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm
> possible dates.
>
> Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be
> interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos Juzarte Rolo
> Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP
>
> Pythian - Love your data
>
> rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin:
> *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo
> <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>*
> Mobile: +351 918 918 100 <+351%20918%20918%20100>
> www.pythian.com
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman <
> kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you
> set a firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on
> track is nerve racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit
> 2016, I think we are should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even
> trying to meet the timeline for everything that would have to come together
> makes 2019 too nerve racking a target date.  The steps should be:
>
> Form a planning committee
>
> Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
>
> Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the
> heavy lifting for us
>
>
>
> In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous
> Cassandra Convention which offers four benefits:
>
> It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide
> group that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is
> geographically disadvantaged
>
> No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees
> makes it accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
>
> The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us
> to reach implementation sooner
>
>         It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
>
>
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>
>
> *From:* Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
> *To:* cassandra
> *Subject:* Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
>
>
>
> Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which
> was developer/development focused (vs user focused).
>
>
>
> For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a
> user conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's
> fairly obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event
> planners, so it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but
> we're doing our best to try to put something together.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I
> really wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get
> people to write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we
> could do a virtual web conf of the best submissions.
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman <
> kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, wrote:
>
> Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit
> 2018 (probably too late)?
>
>
>
> Is there a planning committee?
>
>
>
> Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a
> better way?
>
>
>
> We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually
> and perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and
> bonding if it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.
>
>
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> --
Ben Bromhead
CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/>
+1 650 284 9692
Reliability at Scale
Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch on AWS, Azure, GCP and Softlayer

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Horia Mocioi]

Hello,

Are there any updates on this event?

Regards,
Horia

On tis, 2018-02-27 at 11:42 +, Carlos Rolo wrote:
Hello all,

I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon, Portugal in 
late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm possible dates.

Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be 
interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.


Regards,

Carlos Juzarte Rolo
Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP

Pythian - Love your data

rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin: 
linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo
<http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>
Mobile: +351 918 918 100
www.pythian.com<http://www.pythian.com/>

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman 
<kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid<mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>> wrote:
Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you set a 
firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on track is nerve 
racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit 2016, I think we are 
should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even trying to meet the 
timeline for everything that would have to come together makes 2019 too nerve 
racking a target date.  The steps should be:
Form a planning committee
Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the heavy 
lifting for us

In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous Cassandra 
Convention which offers four benefits:
It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide group 
that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is geographically 
disadvantaged
No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees makes it 
accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us to 
reach implementation sooner
It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra

Kenneth Brotman

From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com<mailto:jji...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
To: cassandra
Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which was 
developer/development focused (vs user focused).

For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a user 
conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's fairly 
obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event planners, so 
it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but we're doing our 
best to try to put something together.


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh 
<rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com<mailto:rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I really 
wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get people to 
write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we could do a 
virtual web conf of the best submissions.

On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman 
<kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid<mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>>, wrote:

Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit 2018 
(probably too late)?

Is there a planning committee?

Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a better 
way?

We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually and 
perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and bonding if 
it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.

Kenneth Brotman







--

RE: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Kenneth Brotman]

The Meet Up groups might be a good way to implement a distributed asynchronous 
event that can still be optionally attended in person.  We could make a nice 
kit for a few meetings for them that ties together with the event and connects 
them as participates in it.  

 

Here is the Meetup website with the Cassandra groups loaded: 
https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false 
<https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false=Cassandra=Infinity=Sacramento%2C+CA=Sacramento%2C+CA=default>
 
=Cassandra=Infinity=Sacramento%2C+CA=Sacramento%2C+CA=default
 .  

I stopped counting after I easily got to 10,000 members.

 

Kenneth Brotman

 

From: Rahul Singh [mailto:rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 6:27 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

 

I can help organize. I organize three meetups in the area here and know several 
venues that would be able to lend space if needed.

We can host about 20-30 people at our office or get a location through a 
coworking spot / one of the universities ( Georgetown or George Washington)

The community should do something this year — even if it is semi - Virtual. 
I’ve seen some decent implementations of it in other disciplines. Some
Combination of physical get together on a certain day around the world with 
groups presenting locally and then some folks presenting on a global hangout. 
Breaking momentum is the worst killer of community.

We can rally around one date and see how we do. You can count on DC Cassandra 
committing to make our part of it happen. Best,


--
Rahul Singh
rahul.si...@anant.us

Anant Corporation


On Feb 27, 2018, 5:43 AM -0600, Carlos Rolo <r...@pythian.com>, wrote:



Hello all, 

 

I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon, Portugal in 
late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm possible dates.

 

Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be 
interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.

 




Regards,

 

Carlos Juzarte Rolo

Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP

 

Pythian - Love your data

 

rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin: 
linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo


Mobile: +351 918 918 100 <tel:+351%20918%20918%20100> 

 <http://www.pythian.com/> www.pythian.com

 

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman 
<kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you set a 
firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on track is nerve 
racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit 2016, I think we are 
should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even trying to meet the 
timeline for everything that would have to come together makes 2019 too nerve 
racking a target date.  The steps should be:

Form a planning committee

Bring potential sponsors into the planning early

Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the heavy 
lifting for us



In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous Cassandra 
Convention which offers four benefits:

It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide group 
that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is geographically 
disadvantaged

No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees makes it 
accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out

The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us to 
reach implementation sooner 

It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra



Kenneth Brotman

 

From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
To: cassandra
Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

 

Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which was 
developer/development focused (vs user focused).

 

For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a user 
conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's fairly 
obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event planners, so 
it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but we're doing our 
best to try to put something together.

 

 

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I really 
wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get people to 
write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we could do a 
virtual web conf of the best submissions. 


On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, 
wrote:

Is there any planning yet for a Cass

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Rahul Singh]

I can help organize. I organize three meetups in the area here and know several 
venues that would be able to lend space if needed.

We can host about 20-30 people at our office or get a location through a 
coworking spot / one of the universities ( Georgetown or George Washington)

The community should do something this year — even if it is semi - Virtual. 
I’ve seen some decent implementations of it in other disciplines. Some
Combination of physical get together on a certain day around the world with 
groups presenting locally and then some folks presenting on a global hangout. 
Breaking momentum is the worst killer of community.

We can rally around one date and see how we do. You can count on DC Cassandra 
committing to make our part of it happen. Best,

--
Rahul Singh
rahul.si...@anant.us

Anant Corporation

On Feb 27, 2018, 5:43 AM -0600, Carlos Rolo <r...@pythian.com>, wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon, Portugal 
> in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm possible dates.
>
> Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be 
> interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos Juzarte Rolo
> Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP
>
> Pythian - Love your data
>
> rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin: 
> linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo
> Mobile: +351 918 918 100
> www.pythian.com
>
> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman 
> > <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> > > Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you 
> > > set a firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on 
> > > track is nerve racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit 
> > > 2016, I think we are should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and 
> > > even trying to meet the timeline for everything that would have to come 
> > > together makes 2019 too nerve racking a target date.  The steps should be:
> > >     Form a planning committee
> > >     Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
> > >     Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the 
> > > heavy lifting for us
> > >
> > > In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous 
> > > Cassandra Convention which offers four benefits:
> > >     It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide 
> > > group that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is 
> > > geographically disadvantaged
> > >     No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees 
> > > makes it accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss 
> > > out
> > > The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us 
> > > to reach implementation sooner
> > >     It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
> > >
> > > Kenneth Brotman
> > >
> > > From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
> > > To: cassandra
> > > Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
> > >
> > > Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), 
> > > which was developer/development focused (vs user focused).
> > >
> > > For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a 
> > > user conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's 
> > > fairly obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event 
> > > planners, so it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, 
> > > but we're doing our best to try to put something together.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh 
> > > <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I 
> > > really wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get 
> > > people to write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we 
> > > could do a virtual web conf of the best submissions.
> > >
> > > On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman 
> > > <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit 
> > > 2018 (probably too late)?
> > >
> > > Is there a planning committee?
> > >
> > > Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a 
> > > better way?
> > >
> > > We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually 
> > > and perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and 
> > > bonding if it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.
> > >
> > > Kenneth Brotman
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
> --
>
>

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Carlos Rolo]

Hello all,

I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon,
Portugal in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm
possible dates.

Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be
interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today.


Regards,

Carlos Juzarte Rolo
Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP

Pythian - Love your data

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman <
kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

> Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you
> set a firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on
> track is nerve racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit
> 2016, I think we are should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even
> trying to meet the timeline for everything that would have to come together
> makes 2019 too nerve racking a target date.  The steps should be:
>
> Form a planning committee
>
> Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
>
> Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the
> heavy lifting for us
>
>
>
> In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous
> Cassandra Convention which offers four benefits:
>
> It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide
> group that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is
> geographically disadvantaged
>
> No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees
> makes it accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
>
> The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us
> to reach implementation sooner
>
> It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
>
>
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>
>
> *From:* Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
> *To:* cassandra
> *Subject:* Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
>
>
>
> Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which
> was developer/development focused (vs user focused).
>
>
>
> For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a
> user conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's
> fairly obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event
> planners, so it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but
> we're doing our best to try to put something together.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I
> really wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get
> people to write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we
> could do a virtual web conf of the best submissions.
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman <
> kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, wrote:
>
> Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit
> 2018 (probably too late)?
>
>
>
> Is there a planning committee?
>
>
>
> Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a
> better way?
>
>
>
> We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually
> and perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and
> bonding if it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.
>
>
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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RE: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Kenneth Brotman]

Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly.  Once you set a 
firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on track is nerve 
racking.  To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit 2016, I think we are 
should plan for 2020.  It’s too late for 2018 and even trying to meet the 
timeline for everything that would have to come together makes 2019 too nerve 
racking a target date.  The steps should be:

Form a planning committee

Bring potential sponsors into the planning early

Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the heavy 
lifting for us



In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous Cassandra 
Convention which offers four benefits:

It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide group 
that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is geographically 
disadvantaged

No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees makes it 
accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out

The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us to 
reach implementation sooner 

It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra



Kenneth Brotman

 

From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:jji...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
To: cassandra
Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

 

Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which was 
developer/development focused (vs user focused).

 

For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a user 
conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's fairly 
obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event planners, so 
it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but we're doing our 
best to try to put something together.

 

 

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I really 
wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get people to 
write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we could do a 
virtual web conf of the best submissions. 


On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, 
wrote:



Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit 2018 
(probably too late)?

 

Is there a planning committee?

 

Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a better 
way?

 

We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually and 
perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and bonding if 
it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.

 

Kenneth Brotman

 

 

 

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Jeff Jirsa]

Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which
was developer/development focused (vs user focused).

For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a
user conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's
fairly obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event
planners, so it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but
we're doing our best to try to put something together.


On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh 
wrote:

> I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I
> really wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get
> people to write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we
> could do a virtual web conf of the best submissions.
>
> On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman
> , wrote:
>
> Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit
> 2018 (probably too late)?
>
>
>
> Is there a planning committee?
>
>
>
> Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a
> better way?
>
>
>
> We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually
> and perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and
> bonding if it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.
>
>
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018

[Rahul Singh]

I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I really 
wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get people to 
write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we could do a 
virtual web conf of the best submissions.

On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman , 
wrote:
> Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit 
> 2018 (probably too late)?
>
> Is there a planning committee?
>
> Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a 
> better way?
>
> We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually and 
> perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and bonding if 
> it’s not virtual.  I’m up for any of these.
>
> Kenneth Brotman
>
>