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 +0000, 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
