This is great, thanks, the project appreciates the effort. 2019 is over,
don't worry about the past. Moving forward in little or large steps is
the goal. :)
If you didn't get a chance to attend the first Contributor Meeting,
there will be more. Patrick sent out a survey last week for feedback, so
I imagine these will continue at a regular interval with continued
interest and attendance. Perhaps you could schedule some in-person
meetup thing to coincide, as an idea, or just get the word out to others
that might be interested in listening in?
(Next one has not been scheduled yet, but will show up here on dev@ list.)
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Apache+Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting
Michael
On 2/8/20 10:06 PM, Rahul Singh wrote:
Folks, (Initially meant for User , but realized after I wrote it , it’s more
sausage making talk which en users probably don’t care about)
I took on a bunch of work and finally starting to get my head out of the sand
and realized I failed to deliver on some promises last year I made to myself
and others to contribute to this community. I wanted to resurface a few
thoughts on which I would like to contribute.
We had a conversation on here a while ago to try doing a virtual conference..
which I think is a bit too ambitious. I also spoke to Dinesh last year briefly
about doing periodic development meetings which focused on the development
planning and execution.
I’d like to help this project but I don’t know where to start. I tried getting
some Jr. members internally at Anant who had time to make fixes on content and
docs but it didn’t get looked at or reviewed so they lost interest. There’s
only so much they would want to do based on my requests. The failure to deliver
on better documentation organization was mainly mine because I didn’t commit
enough time into it.
I don’t think our community does a good enough job communicating the Cassandra
value proposition to the enterprise community whether they are developers,
architects, or directors. I’ve been meeting with many folks that haven’t
touched their clusters since installing 2.1 (because it’s pretty damn good for
most people!). When I ask them why, it’s a combination of team member churn but
also because the knowledge is not as accessible.
This year as January closes I am recommitting myself to some ideas and would
LOVE your feedback. If somethings like this are in progress, I will help.
1. Cassandra Lunch - I’ve been seeing a colleague getting together with his
fellow practitioners for a weekly “Sitecore Lunch” and I found it a very easy
way to get people talking that normally wouldn’t be interacting with each other
in realtime.
2. Coordinated Remote Meetup - I think this would be way easier to organize and
get cross promoted as a quarterly event with the help of local organizers. I’m
currently organizing DC / Chicago and have been cross promoting virtual talks
to both and have gotten a good show with people curious about Cassandra.
3. Documentation - I know I said I’d help last year. I underestimated my free
time and over estimated my capacity to focus. That being said , this is one of
my passions and I help a lot of orgs get their [blank] together on how to
manage their people, process, info and systems and the first thing is always
knowledge management. If there’s someone I can shadow and apprentice under to
help with Cassandra.Apache.org I really want to help revitalize our site.
These may still be overestimating my capacity but I’m willing to fail and try
again. :)
rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com
http://cassandra.link
The Apache Cassandra Knowledge Base.
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