Some of us from Rackspace are going offsite and heads-down for a day of hacking to see how much of the Avro support in Cassandra we can get knocked out. We'll be at Austin Cowork (http://www.coworkaustin.com/about.php) on September 1 from 8am to 6pm, and we have space enough for 4 more if anyone is interested.
If you're in the Austin area and would like to join us, shoot me an email and give me an idea which area(s) you think you might like to work on. The bigger areas I see are: * RPC method implementations * Functional tests * Client support -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com