The first acceptance notices have been sent. There's still time to
apply for the second batch!
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Update:
>
> I'm planning to send out confirmations for half of the seats at the
> end of June, and the other half two weeks later. We are definitely
> going to fill this up, so don't wait until the last minute to apply!
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Want to contribute to Cassandra but don't know where to start?
>>
>> For the first time, we'll be running a bootcamp for new Cassandra
>> contributors immediately after the Cassandra Summit this September.
>> This is NOT a projectors-and-powerpoint conference. The best way to
>> learn a new project is to hack on it, and that's what we'll be doing.
>>
>> We won't be throwing you in the deep end. Actually, we will, but
>> we'll give you some pointers on swimming technique first. Friday
>> morning will cover overviews of different areas of the Cassandra
>> storage engine and query processing. Then Friday afternoon we'll have
>> everyone working on a single LHF ("low hanging fruit") ticket as a
>> warm up. Saturday we'll throw open for working on any Cassandra
>> ticket individually or in groups. Both days, we'll have Cassandra
>> committers circulating the room to answer questions and get you
>> un-stuck.
>>
>> Attendance is free, but to make sure we can give people individual
>> attention as needed, we're limiting this to 40 attendees. We also
>> have some prerequisites in the interest of getting the most out of our
>> time together:
>>
>> - Have a strong core Java background including familiarity with
>> java.util.concurrent
>>
>> - Bring a laptop with the Cassandra source checked out and ready to
>> run in your IDE of choice (see
>> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HowToContribute for links to
>> instructions for Eclipse and Intellij). We will NOT be covering this
>> during the boot camp, so come prepared.
>>
>> - Set up an Apache Cassandra JIRA account ahead of time
>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA).
>>
>> - Read the Dynamo and Annotated Cassandra papers ahead of
>> time (http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/,
>> http://www.datastax.com/documentation/articles/cassandra/cassandrathenandnow.html)
>>
>> - Browse the low-hanging fruit tickets
>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%2012310865%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20lhf%20AND%20status%20!%3D%20resolved)
>> and have an idea of what you want to work on in day 2.
>>
>> Apply at http://learn.datastax.com/CassandraSummitBootcampApplication.html
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
>> @spyced
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
> @spyced
--
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
@spyced
