Cassandra Community Development 12-Month Report

2024-02-22 Thread Melissa Logan
=id.g10ffa3d4c49_0_109 (2) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=240883297 -- Melissa Logan (she/her) Member, Apache Software Foundation Founder, Constantia.io

Re: Welcome Brad Schoening as Cassandra Committer

2024-02-22 Thread Melissa Logan
Awesome. Congrats, Brad! On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 1:49 AM Maxim Muzafarov wrote: > Congratulations! > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 10:23, Berenguer Blasi > wrote: > > > > Congrats! > > > > On 22/2/24 9:57, Jacek Lewandowski wrote: > > > > Congrats Brad! > > > > > > - - -- --- -

Re: Welcome Maxim Muzafarov as Cassandra Committer

2024-01-08 Thread Melissa Logan
Congrats Maxim! On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 10:26 AM Jeremiah Jordan wrote: > Congrats Maxim! Thanks for all of your contributions! > > On Jan 8, 2024 at 12:19:04 PM, Josh McKenzie wrote: > >> The Apache Cassandra PMC is pleased to announce that Maxim Muzafarov has >> accepted >> the invitation to

Re: Welcome Mike Adamson as Cassandra committer

2023-12-08 Thread Melissa Logan
Congratulations, Mike! On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:13 AM David Capwell wrote: > Congrats! > > On Dec 8, 2023, at 11:00 AM, Lorina Poland wrote: > > Congratulations, Mike! > > >

Re: Voice of Apache (Feathercast) at summit?

2023-12-07 Thread Melissa Logan
Rich, thank you for the kind offer! I'm happy to help find folks to participate - what day/time would you want to do this? Would it be a single interview, panel style, or a few different interviews with individuals? On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:29 PM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2023

Re: [CMWG] December 6 Meeting

2023-12-06 Thread Melissa Logan
-BAlq Passcode: N51LWfm! On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 3:16 PM Melissa Logan wrote: > Tomorrow is the last Cassandra Marketing Working Group meeting of the > year! Join us at *8:00am PT / 4:00pm UTC, Wednesday Dec. 6*. > > Agenda below. If you have something to add, please do so h

[CMWG] December 6 Meeting

2023-12-05 Thread Melissa Logan
Tomorrow is the last Cassandra Marketing Working Group meeting of the year! Join us at *8:00am PT / 4:00pm UTC, Wednesday Dec. 6*. Agenda below. If you have something to add, please do so here . Details and how

Introducing the Cassandra Catalyst program!

2023-12-01 Thread Melissa Logan
The Cassandra community is excited to introduce the Cassandra Catalyst program, a new initiative that aims to recognize individuals who invest in the growth of the community by enthusiastically sharing their expertise, encouraging participation, and creating a welcoming environment. This is the

Nov. 30 Cassandra virtual meetup with MondayDB and PMC Chair

2023-11-29 Thread Melissa Logan
-global/events/296224296/ Now available is yesterday's contributor meeting where we discussed 5.0 features, 3.xx, and busted some Cassandra myths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSDivLidnOg See you soon! -- Forwarded message - From: Melissa Logan Date: Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 3:37 PM

Re: Welcome Francisco Guerrero Hernandez as Cassandra Committer

2023-11-28 Thread Melissa Logan
Congrats Francisco! On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:34 AM Vinay Chella wrote: > Congratulations Francisco !! > > Thanks, > Vinay Chella > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:24 AM Mick Semb Wever wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 19:54, Dinesh Joshi wrote: >> >>> The PMC members are pleased to

November community meetings with mondayDB, PMC chair, and 5.0

2023-11-01 Thread Melissa Logan
Join us for our virtual community meetings in November including: - Tuesday, Nov. 28: 5.0 Release Preview - Thursday, Nov. 30: mondayDB - Crafting a Database from Scratch with Liran Brimer + The State of the Cassandra Development Community with Josh McKenzie Register:

Re: [CMWG] November 1 meeting

2023-11-01 Thread Melissa Logan
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 9:14 AM Melissa Logan wrote: > Meeting notes and recording are below. Patrick shared awesome keynotes > that will be at Cassandra Summit. We're in the final stretch for event > promotions, so please share far and wide. You can use posts in the social > do

Re: [CMWG] November 1 meeting

2023-11-01 Thread Melissa Logan
/rzDtDev6ZUAyl34khsY6uLhu_4UkonGP_JqY0qhoZrRlSroBBlHpcDR2yYrRXW3m.ejGlWmZHGJ5G7rA7 Passcode: ?ngYU3W^ Social Posts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhoblApDzR6o4F0PNyjZTeQqizQtJjTPsgtEJeof-X0/edit#heading=h.3qzwljmzv9zs On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 7:42 AM Melissa Logan wrote: > CMWG meeting starts in 20 minutes. > > Join via Zoom: > *https://us02w

Re: [CMWG] November 1 meeting

2023-11-01 Thread Melissa Logan
A10> On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM Melissa Logan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Please join us this Wednesday, November 1 for the monthly Cassandra > Working Group (CMWG) meeting at 8am PT / 11 ET / 3pm UTC. > > Add your updates or new discussions/questions to the doc: > https:/

Fwd: Upcoming Community Meetings

2023-10-31 Thread Melissa Logan
Today is the monthly Cassandra contributor meeting at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET / 17:00 UTC / 22:30 IST. Piotr Kołaczkowski will share details about CEP-29: CQL Not operator and how to use and contribute. How to join:

[CMWG] November 1 meeting

2023-10-30 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi everyone, Please join us this Wednesday, November 1 for the monthly Cassandra Working Group (CMWG) meeting at 8am PT / 11 ET / 3pm UTC. Add your updates or new discussions/questions to the doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_73-iSjo1ZKKFn410rOCqNctnhNJOFLvbVA225OdrXY/edit If you need

Re: Upcoming Town Hall

2023-09-28 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi folks: The Cassandra 5.0 alpha preview was released a few weeks ago. In our virtual Town Hall today at 8:00 AM PT, Aaron Ploetz will walk us through new features including ACID transactions, SAI, Trie memtables, vector search, and others. See you soon! Details and how to join:

Jira: Project logo with incorrect/no trademark

2023-08-25 Thread Melissa Logan
Hello: The Cassandra logos on the ASF Project Logos page are outdated, as they include lowercase letters and no trademark. This Jira request includes logos to be replaced on the site, which requires a committer to publish: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18621 The logo on the

[CMWG] Agenda and call details for Aug. 2

2023-08-01 Thread Melissa Logan
atrick McFadin) - Planet Cassandra Contributors (Patrick McFadin) - Update: MVP Program (Melissa Logan) - Update: Checklist for Cassandra events (Melissa Logan) - Update: How to do calendar better (Melissa Logan) ***NEW ZOOM*** https://us02web.zoom.us/j/822108683

Re: Cassandra Contributor Meeting May 30

2023-05-30 Thread Melissa Logan
as it doesn't require deep expertise in Cassandra or Spark. On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:38 AM Melissa Logan wrote: > The Cassandra Contributor Meeting starts soon at 10am PT. Dinesh Joshi > will be discussing CEP-28: Reading and Writing Cassandra Data with Spark > Bulk Analytics. See you then! &g

Re: Cassandra Contributor Meeting May 30

2023-05-30 Thread Melissa Logan
Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85996789692?pwd=eFVjWE44VXVmZzIwejhFSk43emFZUT09 Meeting ID: 859 9678 9692 Passcode: 193585 On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 9:31 AM Melissa Logan wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Cassandra community will be hosting monthly Contributor Meetings the > last Tuesday o

Cassandra Contributor Meeting May 30

2023-05-09 Thread Melissa Logan
/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+Contributor+Meeting Copy the invite from the public Cassandra Community Meeting Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=a2w5cHVoZ2s3cXRkdXFhdHRlOHRmZDVtcHNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ See you then! -- Melissa Logan (she/her) Member, Apache

Re: Welcome our next PMC Chair Josh McKenzie

2023-03-23 Thread Melissa Logan
Josh, congratulations! Mick, thank you for all your efforts and support! On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 07:58 Joseph Lynch wrote: > Congratulations Josh! Thank you Mick! > > -Joey > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:56 AM Molly Monroy wrote: > >> Congrats Josh - looking forward to working with you more

Re: Welcome Patrick McFadin as Cassandra Committer

2023-02-02 Thread Melissa Logan
mmunity through the years. > > Congratulations and welcome! > > The Apache Cassandra PMC members > -- Melissa Logan (she/her) CEO & Founder, Constantia.io LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mklogan/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Melissa_B2B>

Re: [DISCUSS] Formation of Apache Cassandra Publicity & Marketing Group

2023-01-20 Thread Melissa Logan
ticipation.* >>> >> >> >> +1 to the proposal and everything you write Patrick! >> >> I've submitted the request for the ML (can take 24 hours). Who would like >> to be a moderator for the list? >> >> Otherwise let's give this a few days for

Re: Thanks to Nate for his service as PMC Chair

2022-07-11 Thread Melissa Logan
.apache.org/foundation/faq.html#why-are-PMC-chairs-officers >>> >>> The PMC as a whole is the entity that oversees and leads the project and >>> any PMC member can be approached as a representative of the committee. A >>> list of Apache Cassandra PMC members can be found on: >>> https://cassandra.apache.org/_/community.html >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Paulo >>> >>> -- Melissa Logan (she/her) Principal, Constantia.io LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mklogan/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/Melissa_B2B>

Re: Apache Cassandra Marketing Meeting - 5/26

2022-05-26 Thread Melissa Logan
happy to alternate into different time > zones. I'll work on getting that set up. > > Patrick > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 7:21 PM guo Maxwell wrote: > >> Make a suggestion, can you consider Asian users in the future? 樂☺ >> > -- Melissa Logan (she/her) P

Re: Cassandra World Party in July; CFP open!

2022-05-23 Thread Melissa Logan
;> ApacheCon 2022, please consider using this as an opportunity to present a >> super condensed (and fast!) version of that talk. >> >> Event Times: >> >> July 20, 2022 6 am PT / 1 pm UTC >> July 20, 2022 2pm PT / 9 pm UTC >> July 20, 2022 10pm PT / July 21 6 am

Re: New Apache Cassandra Group on LinkedIn

2022-03-09 Thread Melissa Logan
but somebody just needed to ask. It's clear that this >>> discussion happened somewhere else and this was just an announcement. >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:41 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everybody, >>>&g

Re: Welcome Anthony Grasso, Erick Ramirez and Lorina Poland as Cassandra committers

2022-02-15 Thread Melissa Logan
Spectacular -- congrats, all! On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:27 AM Chris Thornett wrote: > Fantastic news! Congrats to you all and well deserved! > -- Melissa Logan (she/her) Principal, Constantia.io meli...@constantia.io Cell: 503-317-8498 LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/i

Re: [DICSUSS] Marketing contributions

2022-01-17 Thread Melissa Logan
b. I see them as important contributors and it is important to > officially recognize our contributor circle. > Regarding our users, I feel that we need to thank them for their trust > more often and open the door for as many exchanges as possible. > > > Le jeu. 13 janv. 2022

Re: [DICSUSS] Marketing contributions

2022-01-13 Thread Melissa Logan
ted on a real blog platform? I did not manage to find any discussion > about that. > > Le jeu. 13 janv. 2022 à 02:46, Melissa Logan > a écrit : > >> Chris Thornett, Diogenese Topper and I compiled a recap of the marketing >> work we contributed to Cassandra in 2021. We also dev

[DICSUSS] Marketing contributions

2022-01-12 Thread Melissa Logan
Chris Thornett, Diogenese Topper and I compiled a recap of the marketing work we contributed to Cassandra in 2021. We also developed a recommended approach for 2022. Our aim is to be a resource that advances the community's interests, so we would greatly appreciate your input here and/or in the

[DISCUSS] Marketing contributions

2022-01-12 Thread Melissa Logan
Chris Thornett, Diogenese Topper and I compiled a recap of the marketing work we contributed to Cassandra in 2021. We also developed a recommended approach for 2022. Our aim is to be a resource that advances the community's interests, so we would greatly appreciate your input here and/or in the

Re: Cassandra project biweekly status update 2022-01-03

2022-01-04 Thread Melissa Logan
and I look forward to seeing how things evolve with some of >>>>> the upcoming significant CEP's and features this year. Thanks everyone! >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> These updates are really awesome Josh and also a bi

Re: Cassandra site broken links

2021-11-08 Thread Melissa Logan
tudies.html > >>> <https://cassandra.apache.org/_/case-studies.html> and then find > >>> Coursera and click "read more". Then after trying to find a way to > >>> contact you guys about the problem I encountered another problem on > >>> this part of the website > >>> htt

Re: Additions to Cassandra ecosystem page?

2021-06-30 Thread Melissa Logan
a ecosystem page? > > > > > I feel that we are going into a too restrictive direction. I > believe > > > that > > > > > we have more to win by being open and welcoming. > > > > > -1 for the strict approach and for the licences. > > > > > >

Additions to Cassandra ecosystem page?

2021-06-22 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi all, The Cassandra community recently updated its website and has added several new entries to the Ecosystem page: https://cassandra.apache.org/ecosystem/. If you have edits or know of other third-party Cassandra projects, tools, products, etc that may be useful to others -- please get in

Re: Switching the website to a temporary static html version of the new design

2021-04-26 Thread Melissa Logan
design, while work on the final antora generated > > version continues? > > > done. > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassand

Re: Cassandra World Party - April 28

2021-04-22 Thread Melissa Logan
://cassandra.apache.org/blog/2021/04/19/cass-world-party-speakers.html (2) https://twitter.com/cassandra/status/1384558373912317958 On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:39 PM Melissa Logan wrote: > Exciting progress on RC1! > > Event updates and requests: > > 1. A few talks have been submitted an

Re: Cassandra World Party - April 28

2021-03-31 Thread Melissa Logan
in a moment) On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:16 PM Melissa Logan wrote: > Hi all, > > As the community gets closer to the launch of 4.0, we're organizing a > celebration with the help of ASF -- a one-day, no cost virtual event on > Wednesday, April 28 to bring the global community together

Cassandra World Party - April 28

2021-03-24 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi all, As the community gets closer to the launch of 4.0, we're organizing a celebration with the help of ASF -- a one-day, no cost virtual event on Wednesday, April 28 to bring the global community together in celebration of the upcoming release milestone. OVERVIEW Cassandra World Party 4.0 is

New Cassandra website for review

2021-02-26 Thread Melissa Logan
://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16115 Melissa Logan

Add your third-party offerings to ecosystem page

2020-12-13 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi all, The Cassandra website design and docs overhaul is getting closer to completion. We anticipate the first phase of the site will be available in the next couple weeks. We wanted to flag one new page in particular and ask you to input - a third-party ecosystem page that was added a few

Re: Project website analytics

2020-10-22 Thread Melissa Logan
ribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > --

Re: Monthly community blog - thoughts?

2020-10-16 Thread Melissa Logan
I think this is an awesome idea, and I'm happy to help in any way that I can. > Fantastic, thanks! Possible post topics: -(new/existing) features -common modeling practices -community member "spotlight" -tooling (Reaper, Medusa, K8s operator, etc...) > Great ideas. If you have anything to

Monthly community blog - thoughts?

2020-10-15 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi all, To keep folks informed about the community's efforts, I'm proposing a monthly blog series that summarizes recent work and shares information from throughout the ecosystem. Cassandra Changelog is the drafted name, but open to ideas. First one here for input:

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-10-08 Thread Melissa Logan
steps for the site, can be found in the Jira ticket here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16115. Thanks! On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:42 PM Melissa Logan wrote: > Hi folks, > > As there were no dissenting votes, based on lazy consensus we have moved > forward with

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-09-30 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi folks, As there were no dissenting votes, based on lazy consensus we have moved forward with the project as outlined in CASSANDRA-16115: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16115 If you need a break from 4.0 debugging, would really love folks’ thoughts on new design concepts.

Re: Contributing research on C* usage for blog

2020-08-31 Thread Melissa Logan
Appreciate the feedback, folks! We'll finalize the graphics and get this up on the blog. On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 5:49 PM Nate McCall wrote: > > > > > > > > 901 practitioners were interviewed. I analyzed the data and summarized > in a > > document here: > > > > >

Contributing research on C* usage for blog

2020-08-27 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi everyone, Several open source projects conduct regular user surveys to understand current usage and adoption trends, e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc. They can be informative to the community and other end users. It looks like the C* community may have conducted these in the past

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-07-29 Thread Melissa Logan
That all makes sense, Lorina! My thought was to add a consideration for content/IA to the checklist Mick had shared (in addition to the UI/design), but no need if that's already being handled. On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:28 PM Brandon Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 3:06 PM Lorina

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating the C* website design

2020-07-29 Thread Melissa Logan
I would offer that design is important, but content matters more -- so would suggest adding content strategy/development and information architecture to the checkpoints list. For example, an ecosystem page could be highly beneficial to end users (what does C* work with?), as well as a use

Re: Media coordination (was: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1)

2020-07-22 Thread Melissa Logan
Following up on marketing contributions in process: 1. Stories have begun to post on 4.0 beta (Datanami , SDTimes , CBR

Re: Media coordination (was: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1)

2020-07-20 Thread Melissa Logan
Thank you, Mick, Sally et al. Appreciate this discussion. Coordinating media releases around open source releases is not something I've seen much of, or have much experience with. I can imagine that it is always going to be clumsy around an organic group of individuals around the world,

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 4.0-beta1

2020-07-17 Thread Melissa Logan
Hi all, Melissa of Constantia here (just back from PTO). Our plan is to share the community-approved blog with reporters who have expressed interest in Cassandra, which may result in coverage. We also developed a 4.0 beta graphic that anyone is welcome to use. FWIW our timeline revolves around

Re: Community marketing for C*

2020-06-25 Thread Melissa Logan
e marketing efforts! I'm working on an effort to > > improve the Apache C* documentation, so if you have questions or > > suggestions about that, I'd be happy to hear them. I'm also happy to do > any > > editing/reading of blogs before they go out. > > > > Cheers, &

Re: Community marketing for C*

2020-06-25 Thread Melissa Logan
lease sounds great. > > Happy to help with writing, speaking, and any way I can. > > Cheers, > > — Scott > > > On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Melissa Logan > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I’m with an open source-focused marketing firm > > (https://c

Community marketing for C*

2020-06-24 Thread Melissa Logan
? Appreciate your consideration. Melissa Logan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org