Hello
Are there any plans to run a similar event around the EU summit?
Cheers
Chris
> On 28 Jun 2014, at 00:02, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>>
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>> --
>> Jonathan Ellis
>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
>> @spyced
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> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
> @spyced
