Building Private Cloud With OpenStack

This is a monthly in-person meetup focused on training on GitHub Copilot & GitHub Actions. Developers and students will join the event to train and share their learnings. Note: **Only students of Daffodil International University are invited to the event.** Register here ASAP!!

## First Builder Session: In-Person Body Doubling for Founders, Creatives, and Builders We are a small group of aspiring founders, creatives, and builders who are tired of not acting on our ideas. Sometimes, in-person accountability is the push we need for consistency. This group exists to create a shared environment where execution becomes easier simply because others around you are also building. Our goal is to form a small, intimate community of people committed to building and releasing real projects—people who want to hold each other accountable and reach the next level. Right now, the structure is intentionally lightweight and still forming. We are starting with one weekly in-person body doubling session to create consistent, in-person accountability. *** ## What this session is This is a 3-hour in-person body doubling session. You bring something to work on. You sit down. You work quietly. Others do the same. We’ll begin with brief introductions so everyone knows who’s in the room and what they’re building. After that, we’ll move into focused work blocks using a simple structure: * 50 minutes of focused work * 10 minute break * Repeat The emphasis is on execution, not discussion. There is no requirement to socialize, but for those interested, there may be an optional social aspect afterward, such as grabbing drinks nearby. *** ## Who should attend * Aspiring founders working on startups or side projects * Software engineers building products * Writers, designers, and creatives working on personal work * Builders who want consistent, in-person accountability * Anyone ready to start and execute You do not need to be far along. You just need something you want to work on. *** ## What to bring * A laptop or materials for your project * Something specific you intend to work on * A willingness to focus *** This is the first session. The group will remain small as we build the right foundation. Come build.

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To attend enroll here: [https://luma.com/q6kuetpe](https://luma.com/q6kuetpe) Agenda​ ​5 - 5:45: Pizza / Beer ​​5:45 - 6:15: NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin, NetApp ​​6:15 - 7:00: Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das, NetApp ​​7:00 - 8:00: When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms: Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott, Your Augmented Life Advisory Services ​​8:00 - 9:00: Networking

Join us for an evening of networking, discussion, and all things Cassandra! Please register for this event [here](https://luma.com/q6kuetpe). **Agenda:** ​5:00 - 5:45 pm: Pizza / Beer ​​5:45 - 6:15 pm: NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin, NetApp ​​6:15 - 7:00 pm: Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das, NetApp ​​7:00 - 8:00 pm: When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms: Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott, Your Augmented Life Advisory Services ​​8:00 - 9:00 pm: Networking **Speaking Sessions:** **​NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin** ​Mariah is a Developer Advocate at NetApp Instaclustr with a focus on developing educational content and building community around Apache Cassandra. ​ She will discuss NetApp Instaclustr’s managed platform and their role as an open source contributor in the Apache Cassandra community **​Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das** ​Ritam Das is a Cloud Solutions Architect at NetApp Instaclustr helping customers consume open-source data platforms like Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch and more. ​ Ritam will discuss enhancements to Cassandra 5, its AI capabilities, and what it has enabled enterprises to do at scale. **​** **When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms:Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott** ​Thomas Elliott has had a 25-year career in delivering distributed software systems whose work spans early Cassandra OSS deployments in mobile core networks and modern deterministic data foundations for AI. As Head of AI and ML Systems at BioSole International, he focuses on using Cassandra to encode data dependencies that enable reproducible, auditable, and constrained AI reasoning. ​Since the early days of the Cassandra Open Source project, it has been recognized as a critical component in the evolution of telecom infrastructure, particularly mobile core networks. This talk traces how early design constraints shaped architectural decisions in large-scale deployments. It is a story told across three cities in the Persian Gulf, under tight launch timelines, geopolitical complexity, and read-after-write visibility requirements that had an upper limit of 11ms.

Finish your day with a pizza, drinks and practical discussions on **Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg.** This session is designed for data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers who want to solve real-world data infrastructure challenges. Expect no high-level pitches—just straight, practical discussions on building scalable, efficient, open-source-powered data platforms. Speakers: * ​[Maja Schermuly](https://www.linkedin.com/in/majaschermuly/), Solution Architect at [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) – Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150) * ​[Yingjun Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yingjun-wu/), Founder and CEO at [RisingWave Labs](https://www.risingwave.com/) \- A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave * ​**Agenda:** * ​**05:30 to 06:00 PM** – Doors Open & Networking * ​**06:00 to 06:30 PM** – **Session 1:** Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150) * ​**06:30 to 07:00 PM** – **Session 2:** A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave * ​**07:00 to 07:30 PM** – Open Q&A and Technical Breakouts * ​**07:30 to 08:30 PM** – More Networking