Thats where you'll find me. Come at 2pm or come at 12pm if you want to eat (its hit and miss). St.Ack
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM, tim robertson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >
