I can¹t make it this time, I¹m out of town.
On 6/23/09 12:53 PM, "Bradford Stephens" <bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've gotten a few replies on this, but I'd really like to know who > else is coming. Just send me a quick note :) > > Cheers, > Bradford > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bradford > Stephens<bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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. >
