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 +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 >> > >
