We are more than happy to donate some resources (both people and materials) to putting on NGCC.
I would suggest some sort of committee of folks who are willing to do the groundwork and who act as the executive so it gets done :) On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 at 11:37 Patrick McFadin <pmcfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > A couple years ago we tried to attach it to an ApacheCon event, but the > feedback from the ASF was fairly negative on attaching events. I don't > think making it a part of Apache Big Data would work. > > The alternative as an independent event with sponsorship will be really > hard to coordinate and a potential political minefield. > > Tl;DR Cassandra Summit Japan could be an ideal place. > > Oh and Russ? You win for most awesome event activity ever. > > Patrick > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Eric Evans <john.eric.ev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Russell Bradberry <rbradbe...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > >> read: developers *of* Cassandra > > > > > > Historically it has not only been developers of Cassandra but also > > specific power users, influencers, and experts. If you want to be > > successful in deciding the direction of a product, you need more than its > > developers present. For instance, I am not a Cassandra developer, but I > > have been invited every year. Same with folks like Peter Bailis, Rick > > Branson, and others who come in with a wealth of knowledge around varying > > use cases. Unfortunately, I missed that last two years, but was hoping > to > > make it this year. > > > > You are right, of course. I was (clumsily) trying to create a > > distinction between this and a regular user conference. > > > > -- > > Eric Evans > > john.eric.ev...@gmail.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > > -- Ben Bromhead CTO | Instaclustr <https://www.instaclustr.com/> +1 650 284 9692 Managed Cassandra / Spark on AWS, Azure and Softlayer
