DataStax academy is great but no, no work needs to be or should be aligned with it. Datastax is an independent company trying to make a profit, they could yank their docs at any time. There’s a reason why we started doing the docs in-tree, there was too much of a reliance on DS documentation.
DataStax isn’t Cassandra. > On Feb 24, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.INVALID> > wrote: > > Any efforts described below should be aligned with, complement, enhance, fill > in the outstanding work of DataStax Academy. > > Kenneth Brotman > > From: Kenneth Brotman [mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com > <mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com>] > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 10:16 AM > To: 'user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>' > Subject: RE: Gathering / Curating / Organizing Cassandra Best Practices & > Patterns > > To Rahul, > > This is your official email (just from me as an individual) requesting your > assistance to help solve the knowledge management problem. I can appreciate > the work you put into the Awesome Cassandra list. It is difficult to keep > everything up to date. I’ve been there too. > > The golden trophy if you want to do the absolute best thing is a full-fledged > professional development initiative for Cassandra. From an instructional > design view, what you do is create a body of knowledge and exhaustive list of > competencies, some call KSA’s: knowledge, skills and abilities; then you do a > gap analysis to find the areas in practice where gaps exists between the > competencies desired and those of practitioners, then generate a mix of media > for difference learning styles in a structured properly sequenced series of > easy to work through steps complete with apperception exercises, and everyone > will then have a smooth path towards mastery. It’s that easy. > > So, yes let’s turn it up a few notches. > > Thank you, > > Kenneth Brotman > > > -- > Rahul Singh > rahul.si...@anant.us <mailto:rahul.si...@anant.us> > > Anant Corporation > > On Feb 23, 2018, 5:56 PM -0500, Carl Mueller <carl.muel...@smartthings.com > <mailto:carl.muel...@smartthings.com>>, wrote: > > Isn't a github markdown site about the most easiest collaborative platform > there is for stuff like this? I'm not saying the end product will knock > anyone's socks off. > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Rahul Singh <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com > <mailto:rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com>> wrote: > There’s always a reason to complain if you aren’t paying for something. > There’s always a reason to complain if you are paying for something. > > TLDR; If you want to help curate / organize / gather knowledge about > Cassandra, send me an email. I’d love to solve at least the knowledge > management problem. > > Complaining itself is not a solution or a step in the right direction. > Defining an issue helps by identifying specifically what the pain is and a > decision can be made to resolve or not resolve it.
