Apologies for not getting on here as well. Been away for a bit there, but yeah, thanks Renato for coming forward with the willingness to participate and a bit about yourself etc.
Would be great to see this project take off and I really think this gets the ball rolling in the right direction. Lewis On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Renato, > > Awesome to hear! Really looking forward to you becoming an active > contributor > and part of the project... > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > My name is Renato Marroquin and I would also like to apply for GSoC > > this year. I have a bit of experience with MapReduce, specifically > > Hadoop and Pig-Latin. I have completed my masters degree on databases > > (specifically cloud data management) and I really want to keep on > > working with hadoop related technologies specially with the ones which > > involve the open source community (: > > While doing my masters I was working for a bioinformatics laboratory > > where we tested a couple of NoSQL solutions (HBase and Cassandra) for > > genomic data. But going through the code of both Cassandra and HBase > > they really have come a long way. We also worked creating different > > data flows for scientific data analysis using MapReduce and Pig-Latin. > > Hope to be able to become a more active member on the list, so we can > > make Gora a bigger project. > > > > > > Renato M. > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > -- *Lewis*

