Fwd: CFP: UK Hadoop User Group , Aug 19, London

[Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>
> Date: July 10, 2008 12:35:17 PM EDT
> To: members@apache.org
> Subject: CFP: UK Hadoop User Group , Aug 19, London
> Reply-To: members@apache.org
>
>
> Apache people in London on Aug 19 may be interested in the first  
> Hadoop UK user group event, which is being held at Skills Matter.  
> People doing interesting things with Hadoop *that they can talk  
> about* are invited to give a lightning presentation on their work.  
> Please can you also publicise this event to get a good turnout.
>
> Date: August 19
> Venue: Skills Matter , London, near Farringdon tube station:
> http://skillsmatter.com/go/find-us
> Time: 10:00 onwards; time for people to avoid the rush hour and come  
> in from outside the city.
>
> The event's URL is: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/506444/
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: UK Hadoop User Group
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:03:43 +0100
> From: Johan Oskarsson <jo...@last.fm>
>
> Hi again, another update.
>
> Have worked out the details on food and drinks.
> Yahoo! will be paying for a light lunch "sandwich, fruit, drink and
> crisps (meat and veggie options available)" and ~70 beer (and some non
> alcoholic options.
> Skills matter (the venue) will sponsor us with 50 beers.
>
> I'd still like to find someone else to present and need some help with
> this. Joost couldn't do it unfortunately.
> Ideally I'd like to see some talks/lightning on the many projects that
> use hadoop: HBase, Mahout, Pig, Hive, Cascading etc.
>
> Tim Sell (intern at last.fm) have promised to do a lightning talk on  
> his
> project: postgresql -> hbase replication.
> Miles Osborne (see below) will do a lightning talk on how they're  
> using
> hadoop and nutch in their research.
>
> I'll update the event description with mention of food/drinks and send
> another email to the list.
> Any other pr would be great to fill the last slots, might write
> something on the last.fm blog about it.
>
> Ideas for panel topics? Future direction for hadoop?
>
> Updated the schedule a bit. The last slots could be compressed to  
> fit in
> another presentation (and Last.fm doesn't have to present this time if
> another good speaker steps forward).
> We'll get thrown out of the venue at 17.00.
>
> 10.00 -> 10.45: Doug Cutting (Project founder, Yahoo!) - Hadoop  
> overview
> 10.45 -> 11.30: Tom White (Lexemetech) - Hadoop on Amazon S3/EC2
> 11.30 -> 12.15: Steve Loughran and Julio Guijarro (HP) - Smartfrog and
> Hadoop
> 12.15 -> 13.15: Lunch
> 13.15 -> 14.00: Martin Dittus and Johan Oskarsson (Last.fm) - Hadoop
> usage at Last.fm
> 14.00 -> 15.00: Lightning talks (5-10 minutes each?)
> 15.00 -> 16.00: Panel discussion
> 16.00 -> 17.00: Beer!
> 17.00 -> xx.xx: Wandering to a nearby pub
>
> /Johan