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 >> >> >> > >> >
