That's true, but 100 people is about the largest space you're going to find for free, so past that you'd have to start charging people and worrying about taxes and such. Messy.
Maybe next year... :) -Jonathan On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Jonas Bonér <jo...@jonasboner.com> wrote: > Great initiative. > Just sad that it is not the week before (during JavaOne). Then I think > a lot of people (including me) could go. > > 2009/5/12 Johan Oskarsson <jo...@oskarsson.nu>: >> Cassandra will be represented by Avinash Lakshman on a free full day >> meetup covering "open source, distributed, non relational databases" on >> June 11th in San Francisco. >> >> The idea is that the event will give people interested in this area a >> great introduction and an easy way to compare the different projects out >> there as well as the opportunity to discuss them with the developers. >> >> Registration >> The event is free but space is limited, please register if you wish to >> attend: http://nosql.eventbrite.com/ >> >> >> Preliminary schedule, 2009-06-11 >> 09.45: Doors open >> 10.00: Intro session (Todd Lipcon, Cloudera) >> 10.40: Voldemort (Jay Kreps, Linkedin) >> 11.20: Short break >> 11.30: Cassandra (Avinash Lakshman, Facebook) >> 12.10: Free lunch (sponsored by CBSi) >> 13.10: Dynomite (Cliff Moon, Powerset) >> 13.50: HBase (Ryan Rawson, Stumbleupon) >> 14.30: Short break >> 14.40: Hypertable (Doug Judd, Zvents) >> 15.20: Panel discussion >> 16.00: End of meetup, relocate to a pub called Kate O’Brien’s nearby >> >> Location >> Magma room, CBS interactive >> 235 Second Street >> San Francisco, CA 94105 >> >> Sponsor >> A big thanks to CBSi for providing the venue and free lunch. >> >> >> /Johan Oskarsson, developer @ last.fm >> > > > > -- > Jonas Bonér > > twitter: @jboner > blog: http://jonasboner.com > work: http://crisp.se > work: http://scalablesolutions.se > code: http://github.com/jboner >
