On 12/03/2008 4:26 PM, Justin Mason wrote: > hmm... > > I notice that Yahoo! are running a Hadoop Summit -- > http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/summit/ . It's notable that this is > being held outside the (rather expensive) Apachecon framework.
They're also in the position where a large number of their PMC/committers are already in the same building. Having to send people down the hall, now down the street, further reduces the cost involved. We're in quite a different position. > Would there be enough interest to sustain a SpamAssassin summit? I'm not sure there would be. Spam filtering is a rather mature concept. Not that distributed computing is anywhere near new either, but there's far less understanding about it with the general public. In our case the confusion mainly comes from people who don't understand email, and we really can't help them. Also, I can't speak for anyone else, but unless it was held in, say Toronto, doing it for free wouldn't be an option for me to attend. > do we *need* physical meetups anyway? ;) > just wondering aloud... I dunno. Hadoop's in the position where it can just do "here's some theory, here's how to do some stuff"... probably a lot of map/reduce theory. I'm not sure what we could cover to be both useful and broad enough to be of interest to the majority of attendees. Daryl
