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+=== Inside Cassandra: An Interview with Project Contributor, Lorina Poland
+[discrete]
+==== March 17, 2022
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+We continue our Inside Cassandra series by introducing the people behind the
Apache Cassandra. Our first interviewee is Lorina Poland, who recently accepted
the committer position in recognition of all her work on project documentation.
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=== Can Apache Cassandra take my PEM keys?
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==== March 10, 2022
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+:page-post-author: The Apache Cassandra Community
+:description: The Apache Cassandra Community
+:keywords:
+
+It’s time to start putting some names and faces to all the work that goes into
the Apache Cassandra project. The community powers everything we do. Without
them, we wouldn’t be building on such a stable release, seeing so many features
being merged and in development, and you wouldn’t be able to read this website
right now!
+
+=== About Our Contributor
+
+image:blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg[Lorina Poland,float="left"] Our
first contributor interview is with Lorina Poland, who lives in California.
Lorina’s first job out of college was writing programs in Fortran for Chevron
R&D that we used in fieldwork in oilfields. She went on to become an
Engineering Officer in the U.S. Air Force until retiring in 2007. Because
military service wasn’t demanding enough, she spent ten years teaching high
school kids math and science. In her curr [...]
+
+As a committer for Apache Cassandra, she tends to focus on documentation. Her
main professional interests are better maintaining and publishing tools for
documentation, and recently, APIs for interacting with Apache Cassandra.
+
+=== Contributor Questions
+
+*Question:* What are you currently working on, or have worked on, in the past
for the Apache Cassandra project?
+
+*Answer:* My last big project was converting the Apache Cassandra
documentation to AsciiDoc, to facilitate easier maintenance and contributions.
This was a revamp of the documentation for the 4.0 general release. The project
involved a conversion from reStructuredText and Sphinx to Asciidoc and Antora.
I was also an active member of the small team that redesigned the Apache
Cassandra website.
+
+*Question:* What’s been the most rewarding aspect of being part of the Apache
Cassandra community?
+
+*Answer:* Working with others who see value in open-source software. Open
source allows so many people to learn to use complex software. Back when only
proprietary software was available, it was hard to gain experience. Without
experience, you couldn't get a job, so it was a Catch-22. I’m grateful that
open source has changed that for everyone. Also, the people on the project are
pretty awesome, too!
+
+*Question:* For someone reading this and can help, what types of contributions
or support do you think the Cassandra community needs, or is there anything
they can do to help you?
+
+*Answer:* I view the project from the narrow perspective of documentation—and
there are always opportunities to help with docs. I would encourage anyone to
contribute to documentation as it teaches you a lot about the software. It
forces you to think about explaining complex technologies and can be very
rewarding. One thing to bear in mind, you will need to be open to having your
contributions reviewed by the documentation team and someone like me. The goal
is to make sure we write docum [...]
+
+*Question:* What areas of interest and fields are you passionate about in your
career?
+
+*Answer:* I'm really always interested in learning new things. Right now, I'm
quite heavily involved in another open-source project that provides REST,
GraphQL, Document, and gRPC APIs to interact with Apache Cassandra. I'm also
very passionate about testing software to see how it works for users.
+
+*Question:* How were you introduced to open source software development, and
what was your first contribution to an open source project?
+
+*Answer:* I started working on documentation in my day job, but for me,
working on Apache Cassandra was a way to give the open source software (OSS)
project some great documentation, too.
+
+*Question:* What advice would you give to someone getting started with open
source projects?
+
+*Answer:* Pay attention to the user and developer mailing lists and learn from
them. xref:community.adoc#discussions[You can join the lists for Apache
Cassandra here]. Find a topic that needs some work, and connect with anyone
working in that area. I also find studying testing for software is an excellent
way to learn and gain the knowledge you need to contribute.
+
+*Question:* What do you like to do with your spare time when you're not
volunteering on the project?
+
+*Answer:* I read a lot, both fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries) and
non-fiction (history and current events). I enjoy taking my dog for walks,
maintaining my home computer systems (FreeNAS with plugins for Plex, etc.), and
I put together whimsical jigsaw puzzles.
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