To come over the top on this, speaking can be great for your career and company. And Patrick will help you find a great topic. And you only have to deal with him for 15min, which is _mostly_ doable ;p
If you need help getting internal approvals - communications or potentially even budget -, we have a CFP Concierge that can partner with you to try to get you over the line. Since these lists are mostly technical people, a talk can be a great chance to partner with someone in your organization on the business and/or engineering exec side to tell the story of something awesome you built enabled by Cassandra. So leverage it to get some visibility internally for the awesome work you are doing. Again, you can easily grab time with Patrick to find a topic that would make a great talk. He loves doing this stuff. So if you are on the fence, why not submit? If you aren't sure if you'll get approved, is there a harm in submitting what would be an awesome talk? Maybe a 30min harm to your schedule at most? Patrick 15min CFP consult (seriously, take advantage, he'll get you excited about your topic): https://calendly.com/patrick-mcfadin/15-minute-cassandra-summit-cfp-consult On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 12:53 PM Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > *Hi everyone,An update on the current CFP process for Cassandra > Summit. There are currently 23 talk submissions which are far behind what > we need. Two days of tracks mean we need 60 approved talks. Ideally, we > need over 100 submitted to ensure we have a good pool of quality talks. We > already have quite a few vendor pitches that have nothing to do with > Cassandra. Think of it as like CFP > spam. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/program/cfp/ > <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/program/cfp/>The > deadline is December 11th. That is 12 days! If you are assuming that will > get pushed out, don’t. We have a tight schedule before March 13th. Speakers > must be notified of talk acceptance by the beginning of January to book > travel in time. The full schedule will be published by mid-January. That > being said, I have talked to quite a few people that are working on a > submission. Thank you for being willing to create a talk! How can I help > you get it completed? Again, here is my Calendly link if you need to talk > it over: > https://calendly.com/patrick-mcfadin/15-minute-cassandra-summit-cfp-consult > <https://calendly.com/patrick-mcfadin/15-minute-cassandra-summit-cfp-consult>This > is our conference! Let’s make it a festival of the database we love and the > things we build with it. One more thing. We need sponsors! If your employer > can, this is a great opportunity to get your brand out in front of people > building the future. I’ll be back. Go submit a talk. You’ll be happy you > did! Patrick* > -- Scott Hirleman scott.hirle...@gmail.com
