Re: THIS WEEK: PNW Hadoop / Apache Cloud Stack Users' Meeting, Wed Jun 24th, Seattle

["Wynne, Adam S" <ad...@pnl.gov>]

I can¹t make it this time, I¹m out of town.


On 6/23/09 12:53 PM, "Bradford Stephens" <br...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I've gotten a few replies on this, but I'd really like to know who
> else is coming. Just send me a quick note :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Bradford
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Bradford
> Stephens<br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all, just a friendly reminder that this is Wednesday! I hope to see
>> > everyone there again. Please let me know if there's something interesting
>> > you'd like to talk about -- I'll help however I can. You don't even need a
>> > Powerpoint presentation -- there's many whiteboards. I'll try to have a
>> > video cam, but no promises.
>> > Feel free to call at 904-415-3009 if you need directions or any questions
>> :)
>> > ~~~~~~`
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > On the heels of our smashing success last month, we're going to be
>> > convening the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington)
>> > Hadoop/HBase/Lucene/etc. meetup on the last Wednesday of June, the
>> > 24th.  The meeting should start at 6:45, organized chats will end
>> > around  8:00, and then there shall be discussion and socializing :)
>> >
>> > The meeting will be at the University of Washington in
>> > Seattle again. It's in the Computer Science building (not electrical
>> > engineering!), room 303, located
>> > here: http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?80,70,792,660
>> >
>> > If you've ever wanted to learn more about distributed computing, or
>> > just see how other people are innovating with Hadoop, you can't miss
>> > this opportunity. Our focus is on learning and education, so every
>> > presentation must end with a few questions for the group to research
>> > and discuss. (But if you're an introvert, we won't mind).
>> >
>> > The format is two or three 15-minute "deep dive" talks, followed by
>> > several 5 minute "lightning chats". We had a few interesting topics
>> > last month:
>> >
>> > -Building a Social Media Analysis company on the Apache Cloud Stack
>> > -Cancer detection in images using Hadoop
>> > -Real-time OLAP on HBase -- is it possible?
>> > -Video and Network Flow Analysis in Hadoop vs. Distributed RDBMS
>> > -Custom Ranking in Lucene
>> >
>> > We already have one "deep dive" scheduled this month, on truly
>> > scalable Lucene with Katta. If you've been looking for a way to handle
>> > those large Lucene indices, this is a must-attend!
>> >
>> > Looking forward to seeing everyone there again.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Bradford
>> >
>> > http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Distributed Computing,
>> > Computer Science, and Social Media.
>