I am delighted to share with you that we, the Apache Cassandra community,
in light of our success at last year at last year's conference, have been
given a three day track at this year's ApacheCon in New Orleans, LA, USA
[0].
The goal of this track is simple: we are going to get together to talk
about Apache Cassandra. As such, this will be the ideal place to network
with peers, ask questions, get answers, etc.
On day one, we will be having our Next Generation Cassandra Conference
(NGCC). All are welcome to attend but this day is targeted for Apache
Cassandra committers, contributors and large-scale cluster operators to get
together and discuss topics of interest to them for future development
efforts. The content will focus on internals and will be geared towards
folks with knowledge of the codebase and/or operating Cassandra in very
large environments. Talk submissions for NGCC should take this target
audience into account.
Days two and three will be more general purpose and accessible for a wider
audience. If you are interested in speaking here, put something together
that tells a story others will want to hear. What we are looking for is
general use case submissions that our users will find interesting. This can
be how you solved a specific problem or just a general picture into how
your organization uses Apache Cassandra. A good submission will embrace the
open source ethos of sharing information to help others solve similar
problems.
NGCC talks will be targeted to 30 minutes with 15 minutes for questions or
small break out discussions. General purpose talks will have 50 minutes
with five minutes for questions.
For more information, including details of how to submit proposals, please
see this page:
https://acna2020.jamhosted.net
Please indicate "Cassandra" as the category and add NGCC at the top of the
"Proposal abstract" text box if you are submitting an NGCC talk.
If you are interested in helping organize, plan, and review submissions for
the Cassandra track, we'll send additional details out closer to the CFP
deadline about how you can be involved.
[0] https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
