The Meet Up groups might be a good way to implement a distributed asynchronous event that can still be optionally attended in person. We could make a nice kit for a few meetings for them that ties together with the event and connects them as participates in it.
Here is the Meetup website with the Cassandra groups loaded: https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false <https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=Cassandra&radius=Infinity&userFreeform=Sacramento%2C+CA&mcName=Sacramento%2C+CA&sort=default> &keywords=Cassandra&radius=Infinity&userFreeform=Sacramento%2C+CA&mcName=Sacramento%2C+CA&sort=default . I stopped counting after I easily got to 10,000 members. Kenneth Brotman From: Rahul Singh [mailto:rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 6:27 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Cassandra Summit 2019 / Cassandra Summit 2018 I can help organize. I organize three meetups in the area here and know several venues that would be able to lend space if needed. We can host about 20-30 people at our office or get a location through a coworking spot / one of the universities ( Georgetown or George Washington) The community should do something this year — even if it is semi - Virtual. I’ve seen some decent implementations of it in other disciplines. Some Combination of physical get together on a certain day around the world with groups presenting locally and then some folks presenting on a global hangout. Breaking momentum is the worst killer of community. We can rally around one date and see how we do. You can count on DC Cassandra committing to make our part of it happen. Best, -- Rahul Singh rahul.si...@anant.us Anant Corporation On Feb 27, 2018, 5:43 AM -0600, Carlos Rolo <r...@pythian.com>, wrote: Hello all, I'm interested planning/organizing a small kinda of NGCC in Lisbon, Portugal in late May early June. Just waiting for the venue to confirm possible dates. Would be a 1day event kinda last year, is this something people would be interested? I can push a google form for accessing the interest today. Regards, Carlos Juzarte Rolo Cassandra Consultant / Datastax Certified Architect / Cassandra MVP Pythian - Love your data rolo@pythian | Twitter: @cjrolo | Skype: cjr2k3 | Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo Mobile: +351 918 918 100 <tel:+351%20918%20918%20100> <http://www.pythian.com/> www.pythian.com On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: 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:jji...@gmail.com] 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 <rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com> 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 <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid>, 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 --
