*Hello Cassandra Community,We all see what’s happening in tech right now.
Cuts are being made, and budgets are frozen. For Cassandra Summit, this has
translated to low sponsorship and registrations. The program committee has
been discussing options with the Linux Foundation events team, and the
decision was made to move Cassandra Summit to December 12-13. You’ll see
something official from the Linux Foundation soon. This isn’t what anyone
wanted. It’s a challenging time for our community to gather, and that’s
entirely the point of a Cassandra Summit. Hopefully, this provides enough
space to have the Summit we want and need. Between now and December, the
DataStax community team is ramping up a plan B to keep up the project
momentum during this downturn and facilitate community information sharing.
Cassandra 5.0 is coming, and it’s going to be game-changing. No way we are
waiting until December to talk about it! The plan is to have a virtual
event (online) on March 14 and a series of city-specific Cassandra Days in
the coming months. It’s hard for our community to get out, so we’ll come to
you. More information will follow in the next few days. I want to reassure
you this isn’t specific to our community. I’ve been hearing from many that
you were trying anything to get to San Jose in March, but budgets wouldn’t
allow for any non-essential travel. When I started hearing the same thing
from speakers, then sponsors, I knew this was a large-scale problem. We all
know people impacted by layoffs, and I’m sure many are personally affected.
Let’s come together as a community and help each other. If you have open
positions, call them out in this email thread or #cassandra in the ASF
slack.I want to thank the Linux Foundation Events team personally. They are
exceptional professionals and worked quickly to get us back on track. There
was a rush of events trying to postpone to later in the year, but they were
able to get us a new date. They are as protective of conference uptime like
you are about database uptime. More info to follow. ThanksPatrick*
