Hey all, just a friendly reminder that this is Wednesday! I hope to see everyone there again. Please let me know if there's something interesting you'd like to talk about -- I'll help however I can. You don't even need a Powerpoint presentation -- there's many whiteboards. I'll try to have a video cam, but no promises. Feel free to call at 904-415-3009 if you need directions or any questions :)
~~~~~~` Greetings, On the heels of our smashing success last month, we're going to be convening the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington) Hadoop/HBase/Lucene/etc. meetup on the last Wednesday of June, the 24th. The meeting should start at 6:45, organized chats will end around 8:00, and then there shall be discussion and socializing :) The meeting will be at the University of Washington in Seattle again. It's in the Computer Science building (not electrical engineering!), room 303, located here: http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?80,70,792,660 If you've ever wanted to learn more about distributed computing, or just see how other people are innovating with Hadoop, you can't miss this opportunity. Our focus is on learning and education, so every presentation must end with a few questions for the group to research and discuss. (But if you're an introvert, we won't mind). The format is two or three 15-minute "deep dive" talks, followed by several 5 minute "lightning chats". We had a few interesting topics last month: -Building a Social Media Analysis company on the Apache Cloud Stack -Cancer detection in images using Hadoop -Real-time OLAP on HBase -- is it possible? -Video and Network Flow Analysis in Hadoop vs. Distributed RDBMS -Custom Ranking in Lucene We already have one "deep dive" scheduled this month, on truly scalable Lucene with Katta. If you've been looking for a way to handle those large Lucene indices, this is a must-attend! Looking forward to seeing everyone there again. Cheers, Bradford http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Distributed Computing, Computer Science, and Social Media.
