Event planning is fun as long as you can pace it out properly. Once you set a
firm date for an event the pressure on you to keep everything on track is nerve
racking. To do something on the order of Cassandra Summit 2016, I think we are
should plan for 2020. It’s too late for 2018 and even trying to meet the
timeline for everything that would have to come together makes 2019 too nerve
racking a target date. The steps should be:
Form a planning committee
Bring potential sponsors into the planning early
Select an event planning vendor to guide us and to do the heavy
lifting for us
In the meantime, we could have a World-wide Distributed Asynchronous Cassandra
Convention which offers four benefits:
It allows us to address the fact that we are a world-wide group
that needs a way to reach everyone in a way where no one is geographically
disadvantaged
No travel time, no travel expenses and no ticket fees makes it
accessible to a lot of people that otherwise would have to miss out
The lower production costs and simpler administrative workload allows us to
reach implementation sooner
It’s cutting edge, world class innovation like Cassandra
Kenneth Brotman
From: Jeff Jirsa [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 9:38 PM
To: cassandra
Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018
Instaclustr sponsored the 2017 NGCC (Next Gen Cassandra Conference), which was
developer/development focused (vs user focused).
For 2018, we're looking at options for both a developer conference and a user
conference. There's a lot of logistics involved, and I think it's fairly
obvious that most of the PMC members aren't professional event planners, so
it's possible that either/both conferences may not happen, but we're doing our
best to try to put something together.
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Rahul Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
I think some of the Instaclustr folks had done one last year which I really
wanted to go to.. Distributed / Async both would be easier to get people to
write papers, make slides, do youtube videos with.. and then we could do a
virtual web conf of the best submissions.
On Feb 26, 2018, 1:04 PM -0600, Kenneth Brotman <[email protected]>,
wrote:
Is there any planning yet for a Cassandra Summit 2019 or Cassandra Summit 2018
(probably too late)?
Is there a planning committee?
Who wants there to be a Cassandra Summit 2019 and who thinks there is a better
way?
We could try a Cassandra Distributed Summit 2019 where we meet virtually and
perhaps asynchronously, but there would be a lot more energy and bonding if
it’s not virtual. I’m up for any of these.
Kenneth Brotman
