On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had some stuff to take care of and was too tired to attend the > > meeting. How did it go? Any tidbits that the list might benefit from? > > > > The opencalais session was good. I'm going to tell my colleagues about > this, and they'd surely explore it more. > > Anand and Ramdas have asked that we have sessions again with more > detail. I agree, since the scant amount of ZFS that I showcased today > was in itself radically different from what we all know from other > file systems. > > I request feedback from other attendees on today's ZFS session. Please > let me know what else you'd have liked me to cover at an introduction > level. > We had a good meeting. There were some initial hiccups with the projector but moving to a separate meeting room solved it. I presented a brief introduction to semantic web and showcased the OpenCalais API using python-calais. I showed how to extract semantic concepts (categories) from existing data using the API. I went on to demo my application which listens to a couple of mobile phone news feeds and uses semantic information returned by OpenCalais to provide specific natural language queries (not exactly NLP there yet, but I am simulating NLP like queries) which return specific answers. The demo showed making a query on "cost of motorola android" and this returning the specific data requested on the price of the most recent motorola android mobile phones. I will wait for some other attendee for their feedback on how good this was rather than making the comment myself :) This was followed by a very good session by Sriram and Moinak on the capabilities of ZFS. I don't want to get into details, but I was blown away by the capabilities of ZFS. I had only read about it before and never seen it in action, so when Sriram showed how to increase the storage of an existing volume by adding another device and just adding it to the volume using "zfs add" it was just too good to believe. ZFS makes those actions which could take hours using Linux ext3 look trivial and done within seconds...! We started the ZFS session a bit late i.e around 5.30 pm so there was not much time to showcase all the bits planned. We dispersed around 6.10 pm. We were 7 attendees in total. > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand
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