I think east coast Hackathons could be great (in DC here). 2011/5/16 Joe Stein <[email protected]>
> Any chance for something in the east (NYC) or do I need to start nagging > the > wife and kids that west coast weather is the way to go? > > I will post on the NYC HUG maybe we can get some Hack together contrib to > Hadoop.... but maybe some evening/day that a few commiters on this list > that > are in NYC (not sure if there are any based in NYC?) they can run a mini > hackathon to help get folks in contrib mode? that would rock! > > Maybe even some standard type of "Hack @ HUG" that every HUG can do with > their users (build, patch, build, deploy, test) if they want... > > Thanks to all contributors and commiters for your hard work and continued > efforts/dedication. > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > We've got a great group coming together again on Wednesday for an Apache > > Hadoop Hackathon in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Sign up at > > http://hadoophackathon.eventbrite.com. > > > > As a reminder, we'll have Nigel Daley, the release manager for 0.22, > > present > > in Palo Alto. If you have build and release or testing skills and would > > like > > to contribute to Apache Hadoop, your skills will be highly valued. Please > > consider coming out to meet Nigel and help out on that front! > > > > Also, there's a Hadoop User Group at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale on Wednesday > > evening: http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/events/16805258. There will be a > > large > > caravan leaving from the Palo Alto Hackathon to attend the HUG, so if you > > want to Hadoop all day, stop by Palo Alto and join us for the trip south. > > > > Regards, > > Jeff > > > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > Thanks to everyone who came out for the Apache Hadoop Hackathon > yesterday > > > in Palo Alto and San Francisco. We had 35 people sign up from a great > > cross > > > section of companies: Yahoo!, Cloudera, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, > > > Foursquare, AOL, Ngmoco, StumbleUpon, Trend Micro, Conviva, and more. > We > > had > > > committers from the HBase, Hive, Pig, and Oozie projects ensuring their > > > projects work with the upcoming 0.22 release, and a number of folks got > > > their first patches up. The 0.22 branch is now being built by Jenkins > and > > > we're in good shape to get a release candidate up soon. > > > > > > We had so much fun that we're going to do it again! > > > > > > Join us next Wednesday, May 18th, in either San Francisco or Palo Alto, > > and > > > help us continue the march to get feature development back on trunk. > > We'll > > > have a special guest in Palo Alto: Nigel Daley, Apache Hadoop PMC > member > > and > > > the release manager for the 0.22 release. If you're a sysadmin or > devops > > > person and want to help us build and test Apache Hadoop, this Hackathon > > will > > > be a great chance to learn about how it's done. Of course we'd also > love > > to > > > have developers looking to get their first patches into Hadoop as well. > > > > > > Sign up at http://hadoophackathon.eventbrite.com and we'll see you > > > Wednesday. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Jeff > > > > > > p.s. if you're looking to prepare for the Hackathon, check out the > issues > > > tagged "newbie" at > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=labels+%3D+newbie > > > . > > > > > > > > > -- > > /* > Joe Stein > http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc > Twitter: @allthingshadoop > */ >
