Is there a Bay Area (Silicon Valley) user group that gets together? Thanks!
--- On Thu, 10/8/09, Lalit Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lalit Kapoor <[email protected]> Subject: DC Hadoop Users Group Meetup - October 16th, 2009 6:30 PM To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 12:16 PM Greetings, I would like to let everyone know that we will be having our 4th Hadoop Users Group DC Meetup Friday, October 16, 2009 at 6:30 PM. This meetup will have a couple talks about some new non-relational (#nosql, #altsql, #lesql) databases that are upcoming in the community as well as a recap of events at Hadoop World in NYC (several Hadoop-DC members attended and spoke there). Food and refreshments will be provided. There will be giveaways & prizes. As always, attendees of all expertise levels are welcome to talk and ask questions. Please confirm your attendance here: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-DC/calendar/11303458/ More about our meetups: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-DC/ *Location* Sheraton Reston<http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-DC/venue/1069086/?eventId=11303458&popup=true> 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191 (703) 620-9000 *Agenda* - Mike Dirolf (http://twitter.com/mdirolf) , from MongoDB, is confirmed and will discuss Hadoop and MongoDB - Aaron Cordova (http://twitter.com/aaroncordova) will be talking about designing scalable column-oriented database - Joe Alex (http://twitter.com/joealex) will talk about Cassandra - Sharing what happened at the Hadoop World NYC Sincerely, Lalit Kapoor (http://twitter.com/idefine)
