diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/images/blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/images/blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg index a76ca3b276..c864439bf6 100644 Binary files a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/images/blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg and b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/images/blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg differ diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Cassandra-Day-in-Berlin-Announced.adoc b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Cassandra-Day-in-Berlin-Announced.adoc index d95d5efc95..737c669acc 100644 --- a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Cassandra-Day-in-Berlin-Announced.adoc +++ b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Cassandra-Day-in-Berlin-Announced.adoc @@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ The Berlin event is an opportunity for Apache Cassandra users, enthusiasts, and The day will include an optional workshop from 9 am to 2 pm for anyone wanting to learn the fundamentals and data modeling involved in Apache Cassandra. -As well as talks for both beginners and experts from 3 pm, from the Apache Cassandra PMC Mick Semb Wever will present a talk on _The Future of Apache Cassandra_. The day will end with a chance to gather for a meetup with food & drink, quizzes, and, of course, prizes! +As well as talks for both beginners and experts from 3pm, Apache Cassandra PMC member, Mick Semb Wever, will present a talk on _The Future of Apache Cassandra_. The day will end with a chance to gather for a meetup with food & drink, quizzes, and, of course, prizes! === Call for Papers {amp} More Details -There’s still time to submit a talk, and the call for papers is open to everyone to participate. Share your Cassandra knowledge and https://dtsx.io/cdays-cfp[submit a paper today^]. +There’s still time to submit a talk, and the call for papers is open to everyone to participate. Share your Cassandra knowledge and https://dtsx.io/cdays-cfp[submit a paper^]. Head to https://www.datastax.com/events/cassandra-day-berlin[the website for more information and register today^]! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Inside-Cassandra-an-interview-with-Project-Contributor-Lorina-Poland.adoc b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Inside-Cassandra-an-interview-with-Project-Contributor-Lorina-Poland.adoc index 5326f450ce..551255900b 100644 --- a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Inside-Cassandra-an-interview-with-Project-Contributor-Lorina-Poland.adoc +++ b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Inside-Cassandra-an-interview-with-Project-Contributor-Lorina-Poland.adoc @@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ It’s time to start putting some names and faces to all the work that goes into the Apache Cassandra project. The community powers everything we do. Without them, we wouldn’t be building on such a stable release, seeing so many features being merged and in development, and you wouldn’t be able to read this website right now! +image::blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg[Lorina Poland] + === About Our Contributor -image:blog/inside-Cassandra-Lorina-Poland.jpg[Lorina Poland,float="left"] Our first contributor interview is with Lorina Poland, who lives in California. Lorina’s first job out of college was writing programs in Fortran for Chevron R&D that we used in fieldwork in oilfields. She went on to become an Engineering Officer in the U.S. Air Force until retiring in 2007. Because military service wasn’t demanding enough, she spent ten years teaching high school kids math and science. In her current role, she works full-time as a lead technical writer for DataStax. +Our first contributor interview is with Lorina Poland, who lives in California. Lorina’s first job out of college was writing programs in Fortran for Chevron R&D that we used in fieldwork in oilfields. She went on to become an Engineering Officer in the U.S. Air Force until retiring in 2007. Because military service wasn’t demanding enough, she spent ten years teaching high school kids math and science. In her current role, she works full-time as a lead technical writer for DataStax. As a committer for Apache Cassandra, she tends to focus on documentation. Her main professional interests are better maintaining and publishing tools for documentation, and recently, APIs for interacting with Apache Cassandra. diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Talks-and-Sponsors-Announced-for-Cassandra-World-Party-2022.adoc b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Talks-and-Sponsors-Announced-for-Cassandra-World-Party-2022.adoc index 56b2a6ee25..bfbef69bbd 100644 --- a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Talks-and-Sponsors-Announced-for-Cassandra-World-Party-2022.adoc +++ b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Talks-and-Sponsors-Announced-for-Cassandra-World-Party-2022.adoc @@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ Reflecting that flexibility, the second annual https://www.cassandraworldparty.o We have a virtual event with three sessions on *Wednesday, July 20* at 1200-1300 UTC, 1800-1900 UTC, and 0100-0200 UTC. -=== Watch Parties - -In addition, there will be in-person gatherings this year. Local Watch Parties will take place where the community can gather to eat, drink, socialize and watch the sessions together. Current locations include *London* (Watch Party hosted by https://axonops.com[AxonOps^]) and *Atlanta* (Watch Party hosted by https://careers.homedepot.com/career-areas/technology/[Home Depot^]) with other locations to be determined. - To receive the latest Cassandra World Party news and updates on local watch parties as we get closer to the event, https://5iwm1iun629.typeform.com/to/R9eTh906?typeform-source=www.cassandraworldparty.org[make sure to register today^]. === Talks to Look out For @@ -67,7 +63,9 @@ Other talks include monitoring tips, how Cassandra helps online education platfo === Thank you, sponsors 💖! With grateful thanks to our official Cassandra World Party sponsors for 2022: -image:https://www.cassandraworldparty.org/img/sponsors/AxonopsDigitalMaster_AxonopsFullLogoGradient.svg[link="https://axonops.com",window="_blank" alt=AxonOps,width=300,height=121] image:companies/home_depot.jpg[link="https://careers.homedepot.com/career-areas/technology/",window="_blank" alt=Home Depot,width=300,height=300] +image:blog/CWP-sponsors/axonops.svg[link="https://axonops.com",window="_blank" alt=AxonOps,width=300] + +image:blog/CWP-sponsors/datastax.png[link="https://www.datastax.com/",window="_blank" alt=DataStax,width=300] === See You There We want as many people around the world to be able to attend in their time zone, learn something about Apache Cassandra, meet others, and celebrate v4.1, our first release within the new 12-month schedule for releases and acknowledge the effort and talent that has made the whole project possible! We hope to see you there! diff --git a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Watch-the-Cassandra-World-Party.adoc b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Watch-the-Cassandra-World-Party.adoc index d2f8762975..16d16b6b57 100644 --- a/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Watch-the-Cassandra-World-Party.adoc +++ b/site-content/source/modules/ROOT/pages/blog/Watch-the-Cassandra-World-Party.adoc @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ Thank you to everyone who made the second annual https://www.cassandraworldparty The one-day virtual, free-to-attend event united the global community, and we were once again able to celebrate the people and the technology behind Apache Cassandra—while also having a lot of fun! -We are particularly grateful to all our speakers and moderators (*Ben Bromhead*, *Chris Bradford*, *Ekaterina Dimitrova*, *Jeremy Hanna*, *Patrick Mcfadin* and *Erick Ramirez*), who steered the ship well, especially during the odd technical glitch. +We are particularly grateful to all our speakers and moderators (*Ben Bromhead*, *Chris Bradford*, *Ekaterina Dimitrova*, *Jeremy Hanna*, *Patrick McFadin* and *Erick Ramirez*), who steered the ship well, especially during the odd technical glitch. === Catchup on the Cassandra Talks Don’t worry if you missed out, you can now watch all the 1-hour livestream recordings for each timezone session on the https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqcm6qE9lgKIPuvU06QpbSCaA7SkXQQtK[Planet Cassandra^] YouTube channel. -https://youtu.be/aK-H58ZXcuQ[Session 1*^]: July 20 1200 UTC +https://youtu.be/aK-H58ZXcuQ[*Session 1*^]: July 20 1200 UTC https://youtu.be/P-aAeUH5drY[*Session 2*^]: July 20 1800 UTC https://youtu.be/_kkx8f96j0M[*Session 3*^]: July 21 0100 UTC