Re: Cassandra World Party - April 28

[Melissa Logan <me...@constantia.io>]

Thanks to everyone who has stepped up to present, moderate and help with
the April 28 World Party event!

The speaker lineup was officially announced on Monday (1) and shared via
Twitter (2). Community volunteers are working on an interactive quiz with
t-shirt giveaway.

Over 550 have registered so far from around the globe. If reg gets into the
thousands, we may be looking for sponsors to support the ASF to help cover
fees -- will notify this group if so.

Please use links below to share with your networks. Any questions, join the
#cassandra-events channel on Slack.

(1)
https://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 <me...@constantia.io> wrote:

> Exciting progress on RC1!
>
> Event updates and requests:
>
> 1. A few talks have been submitted and we're looking for people to join
> the Sessionize account to select. CFP closes Friday April 9; rate by Monday
> April 12. It's super easy to rate in the app. If you can help, please let
> me know by Tuesday April 6 -- we'd like to choose a couple early sessions
> to promote in a blog next week with reg link.
>
> What's been submitted so far:
> * Raising the Bar on QA
> * Building Serverless Apps with Cassandra - Fast and Easy!
> * Query-First data modeling in Cassandra
> * Cassandra- Now and for the future
> * Making Cassandra Easy
> * Security 101 for your Cassandra Database
>
> 2. Looking for emcees! One for each time zone (or you can do multiple).
> Interested? Get in touch to discuss.
>
> 3. Giveaways. We have an offer from the community to provide t-shirts as
> prizes for interactive content they're building. Would others like to
> contribute funds to this effort? We could add logos on it as in-kind
> contributors. Let me know by Wednesday April 7.
>
> Huge thanks for event support to Audra Carter, Chris Thornett, Diogenese
> Topper, as well as Mick Semb Weaver, Erick Ramirez, and Jeff Jirsa for web
> and social.
>
> Blog:
> https://cassandra.apache.org/blog/2021/03/25/world_party.html
>
> Landing page:
> https://cassandra.apache.org/worldparty/
>
> Twitter:
> https://twitter.com/cassandra/status/1374509865863839744
>
> Reg link:
> https://hopin.com/events/apache-cassandra-4-0-world-party (just made
> live; adding to landing page in a moment)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 3:16 PM Melissa Logan <me...@constantia.io>
> 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 in celebration
>> of the upcoming release milestone.
>>
>> OVERVIEW
>> Cassandra World Party 4.0 is a one day virtual event on Wednesday, April
>> 28 with three, hour-long sessions so people can attend in their time zone.
>> Each session will feature 3-5 lightning talks (five minutes) on C* plus
>> interactive content (giveaways, quizzes).
>>
>> HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
>> * Submit: The CFP is open now through April 9:
>> https://sessionize.com/cassandra
>> * Review: Please help us review talks! Email me and we'll add you to the
>> platform.
>> * Moderate: We need 1-2 moderators for each time zone. Email me if
>> interested.
>> * Promote: Share the CFP with your networks.
>> * Feedback: If anything here should be amended or you want to contribute
>> in other ways, please get in touch.
>>
>> TIMES
>> 1-2pm UTC / 6-7am PDT
>> 9-10pm UTC / 3-4pm PDT
>> 5-6am UTC / 10-11pm PDT
>>
>> FORMAT
>> 10 min: opening from moderators / contributors
>> 30 min: 3-5 lightning talks on C* stories over the years
>> 15 min: discussion or interaction
>> 5 min: closing
>>
>> We'll soon publish a blog and get a registration page up.
>>
>> Questions, feedback welcome -- thank you!
>>
>> -- The Constantia team
>>
>
>
> --
> Melissa Logan (she/her)
> Principal, Constantia.io
> melissa@constantia.io
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>
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>
>

-- 
Melissa Logan (she/her)
Principal, Constantia.io
melissa@constantia.io
Cell: 503-317-8498
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