Thanks Stack, Around 14:00 it is then. Markus and one (possibly 2) colleagues from Berkeley and myself will be coming.
Cheers, Tim On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:35 PM, stack<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >
