I'm excited to announce the first Seattle Hadoop Day, on August 14th! Get your tickets at http://hadoopday2010.eventbrite.com.
Hadoop Day is a day-long community-organized event where we gather to discuss and learn the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It's the first of its kind in Seattle, and we're excited to bring it to you! Unlike other conferences, Hadoop Day focuses on hands-on education as well as speakers. You'll have lessons with set problems to solve and scripts to help get you up-and-running so you can focus on learning Hadoop, not setting up an environment. (An advanced track with fascinating speakers is available for folks who don't want to do training.) By the end of the event, all participants will have the knowledge to easily explain Hadoop to their peers, and also develop applications rapidly. Best of all, this event is free, because it's for the community! (But please don't get a ticket unless you're sure you'll attend.) Hadoop Day is hosted by Drawn to Scale (http://drawntoscalehq.com), and sponsored by Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com), Miller-Perry, Cloudera (http://www.cloudera.com), and others. Cheers, Bradford -- Bradford Stephens, Founder, Drawn to Scale drawntoscalehq.com 727.697.7528 http://www.drawntoscalehq.com -- The intuitive, cloud-scale data solution. Process, store, query, search, and serve all your data. http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Scalability, Social Media, and Computer Science