Thanks for sending that out Patrick! Really sad not to have a 2017 summit, but looking forward to 2018 summit(s).
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Cassandra Community, > > I know this is a hot topic so let me TL;DR for those of you looking for > the short answer. Will there be a Cassandra Summit in 2017? DataStax will > not be holding a Cassandra Summit in 2017, but instead multiple DataStax > Summits in 2018. > > More details. Last year was pretty chaotic for the Cassandra community and > where DataStax fit with the project. I don’t need to re-cap all the drama. > You can go look at the dev and user lists around this time last year if you > want to re-live it. It’s safe to say 2016 is a year I wouldn’t want to do > again for a lot of reasons. Those of us at the Cassandra Summit 2016 knew > it was the end of something, now the question is what’s next and what will > it be? > > Having a place for people together and talk about what we as a community > do is really important. Those of you that know me, know how much I live > that. When we started talking summit inside DataStax, we realized it would > be a hot button issue. When I started talking to people in the community, > it was even more of a hot button issue. Having DataStax run the Cassandra > Summit was going to cause a lot of heartache and would further divide the > community with questions and accusations. It’s just much easier to hold a > DataStax Summit so we are just out there plainly and move forward. > > What DataStax will be doing different. > > We will be moving back to a more regional format instead of the big bang > single event in San Jose starting in 2018. Fun fact. Almost 80% of > attendees of Cassandra Summit were from the Bay Area. That means we have > developers and operators from a lot of other places being excluded which > isn’t cool. We will also be inviting talks from the Cassandra Community. > You don’t have to be a DataStax customer or partner to get on the speaking > list. > > If there is some new group or company that launches a Cassandra Summit, > DataStax will happily be a sponsor. There are some for-profit, professional > conference companies like the Linux Foundation out there that just may and > if so, I’ll see you there. After being involved in making the Cassandra > Summit happen for years, I can say it’s no small effort. > > There it is. Fire away with your questions, comments. All I ask is keep it > respectful because this is a community of amazing people. You have changed > the world over these years and I know it won’t stop. You know I got a hug > for you wherever we just happen to meet. > > Patrick > >
