PNW Hadoop + Apache Cloud Stack Meetup, Wed. May 27th:

[Bradford Stephens <br...@gmail.com>]

Greetings,
This is a friendly reminder that the 1st meetup for the PNW Hadoop + Apache
Cloud Stack User Group is THIS WEDNESDAY at 6:45pm. We're very excited to
have everyone attend!

University of Washington, Allen Center Room 303, at 6:45pm on Wednesday, May
27, 2009.
I'm going to put together a map, and a wiki so we can collab.

The Allen Center is located here:
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?CSE

What I'm envisioning is a meetup for about 2 hours: we'll have two in-depth
talks of 15-20 minutes each, and then several "lightning talks" of 5
minutes. We'll then have discussion and 'social time'.
Let me know if you're interested in speaking or attending.

I'd like to focus on education, so every presentation *needs* to ask some
questions at the end. We can talk about these after the presentations, and
I'll record what we've learned in a wiki and share that with the rest of
us.

Looking forward to meeting you all!


Cheers,
Bradford Stephens

Re: PNW Hadoop + Apache Cloud Stack Meetup, Wed. May 27th:

[Robert Burrell Donkin <ro...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Bradford Stephens
<br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> This is a friendly reminder that the 1st meetup for the PNW Hadoop + Apache
> Cloud Stack User Group is THIS WEDNESDAY at 6:45pm. We're very excited to
> have everyone attend!
>
> University of Washington, Allen Center Room 303, at 6:45pm on Wednesday, May
> 27, 2009.
> I'm going to put together a map, and a wiki so we can collab.
>
> The Allen Center is located here:
> http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/?CSE
>
> What I'm envisioning is a meetup for about 2 hours: we'll have two in-depth
> talks of 15-20 minutes each, and then several "lightning talks" of 5
> minutes. We'll then have discussion and 'social time'.
> Let me know if you're interested in speaking or attending.
>
> I'd like to focus on education, so every presentation *needs* to ask some
> questions at the end. We can talk about these after the presentations, and
> I'll record what we've learned in a wiki and share that with the rest of
> us.
>
> Looking forward to meeting you all!

sadly i'm on the other side of the pond

(we did some talking at ApacheConEurope about the Apache Cloud Stack.
so, i'm going to jump in here with a few ideas.)

1. after a while, mass cross postings start to become less efficient
than a dedicated announcements list. since clouds cuts across project
boundaries, this would need to be a cross-project mailing list -
announcements@clouds.apache.org, say.

if this would be useful to the community, i'm willing to take a look
at steering it through on the apache side.

opinions?

2. we've made a start at http://cwiki.apache.org/labs/clouds.html
trying to describe the projects, to document how they relate and to
create space for discussions of architecture. as with any labs
project, karma will be granted to any committer (just ask on the labs
list). all very welcome.

- robert