Thanks Stack,

Are we able to come to your place at all?  Is it 475 Brannan St?  Fred
Z also contacted me and said Tuesday would work for him as well.


Cheers

Tim



On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, stack<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm game.  Late afternoon is better.  Let me see if can get other SFers to
> show up.  Bring your dataset.
> St.Ack
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM, tim robertson 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Is anyone available for an informal meetup?  Markus and I are in SF
>> leaving Wednesday morning.  We have stuff to do but can be pretty
>> flexible with times etc.
>>
>> Tuesday late afternoon / early evening perhaps?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:04 PM, stack<[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm game only you are arriving at bad time Tim.  Thats labor day w/e.
>> > Fellas won't be around (generally).  They'll be out in the desert covered
>> in
>> > dust dancing around giant dolls.  So, 8th is probably the day you'll
>> catch
>> > most of the SF crew.  Just FYI.  Can help you w/ places to go np.
>> > St.Ack
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, tim robertson <
>> [email protected]>wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I'm going to be in the San Fran area the 6,7,8 September and would
>> >> love the chance to meet with some of the HBase users, developers if
>> >> anyone is interested?
>> >>
>> >> I work with a Global Biodiversity Information network (GBIF) that has
>> >> several thousand databases publishing data using well defined XML
>> >> standards.  We crawl and build an index of this information that
>> >> currently resides in Mysql, and has 180million records in each of the
>> >> 2 largest tables; and we are outgrowing mysql.  We already use Hadoop
>> >> to do various processes, but are about to try HBase as the backend
>> >> store after doing various tests recently.  We are not a huge cluster
>> >> (16 nodes) but I think we are a nice case study, and because we are
>> >> able to document openly and freely it could be something to reference
>> >> from the HBase wikis.  We are building search indexes, running
>> >> statistical reports, annotating records (geocoding, quality control)
>> >> creating maps (e.g. tile layers) etc so the output is technically
>> >> quite interesting and the data is used for all kinds of scientific
>> >> analysis.  All our code is open source.
>> >>
>> >> We are a small team (3-4 developers) so would very much like the
>> >> opportunity to pick the brains of others.  We are keen to help improve
>> >> HBase as well; probably more in the testing capacity than committing
>> >> due to our workloads, but will do whatever we can.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Tim
>> >>
>> >
>>
>

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