Mark Phillips here. I am the Community Manager at Basho Technologies and, along with Stefano Attardi of Cloudant, am spearheading the NoSQL Summer Meetups here in Boston.
So, the first meeting is scheduled to take place a week from today (Thursday the 24th). We have, unfortunately, hit a snag before even getting out of the gate. I had lined up one of the developers at Basho to lead the first discussion but I found out just yesterday that they will be out of town at the end of next week for a last minute client engagement. (Customers are the worst!) And, of they several other remaining local Basho devs working on Riak, none are available.
Two options:
1) Cancel the inaugural meetup and reschedule when someone is available to lead 2) If one of you feels comfortable leading and wants to do so, please make yourself and your paper of choice known
Sorry for the last minute problems here. Perhaps there is a brave soul amongst you who wants to make the first meeting a success?
Best,
Mark
Community Manager Basho Technologies twitter.com/pharkmillups wiki.basho.com
Some day I'll have done enough NoSQL work to volunteer, but for now
I'm still a newbie.
Even if no one else is able to volunteer, my vote would be to go ahead
with the meeting anyway. It would be a chance for the members/
attendees to get to know each other and find out what everyone else is
using or hoping/planning to use. Thoughts?
I too am in favor of meeting even if it's just to introduce ourselves.
If we feel that starting with a paper is essential, I recommend that
we start with something that's fairly accessible, like James
Hamilton's "On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services" [1].
I like that idea. Can we get a show of hands from those who will be available for the planned meeting this coming Thursday? If there are enough people still interested then we should make it happen.
By the way, I see that the Google Group only has 6 members. Given the number of locals who showed up to NoSQL Live, I was surprised to see so few members.
--Matt
p.s. By the way, If you're running Windows and you're on the Chrome dev channel, don't let it upgrade you to 6.0.437.1! Navigating to a Google Group currently results in an infinite redirect loop - ridiculous!
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > I like that idea. Can we get a show of hands from those who will be > available for the planned meeting this coming Thursday? If there are > enough people still interested then we should make it happen.
I can attend and I would be happy to talk about Mozilla's use of HBase
and Riak.
I could actually talk a lot more about other types of clustered data
manipulation such as our Vertica cluster and our ETL processing
cluster, but this is a *No*SQL meetup so I guess those wouldn't be
interesting.
Daniel Einspanjer
Metrics Architect
Mozilla Corporation
If the Vertica and ETL stuff is deemed too far off-topic for this group, you could always speak about them at the Boston Scalability User Group - http://www.bostonsug.org/ ;)
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Daniel E <deinspan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can attend and I would be happy to talk about Mozilla's use of HBase > and Riak. > I could actually talk a lot more about other types of clustered data > manipulation such as our Vertica cluster and our ETL processing > cluster, but this is a *No*SQL meetup so I guess those wouldn't be > interesting.
> Daniel Einspanjer > Metrics Architect > Mozilla Corporation
I was gonna mention that next week is full of different conferences e.g. Velocity in Santa Clara, RedHat has a big conference in Boston etc. so if it can be postponed after 24th that would be helpful :-).
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > I like that idea. Can we get a show of hands from those who will be > available for the planned meeting this coming Thursday? If there are > enough people still interested then we should make it happen.
> If the Vertica and ETL stuff is deemed too far off-topic for this group, you
> could always speak about them at the Boston Scalability User Group -http://www.bostonsug.org/;)
We push the meeting until the following week and Daniel can pick a paper for us to read and then finish the meetup with how/why they are using Riak and/or Hbase at Mozilla.
Daniel, are there any papers you read or took into account when considering what DB to use at Mozilla?
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > How does everyone feel about the following:
> We push the meeting until the following week and Daniel can pick a > paper for us to read and then finish the meetup with how/why they are > using Riak and/or Hbase at Mozilla.
> Daniel, are there any papers you read or took into account when > considering what DB to use at Mozilla?
> We push the meeting until the following week and Daniel can pick a
> paper for us to read and then finish the meetup with how/why they are
> using Riak and/or Hbase at Mozilla.
> Daniel, are there any papers you read or took into account when
> considering what DB to use at Mozilla?
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Daniel E <deinspan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll post a few articles I found very helpful. > I believe I can make July 1 without a problem as well.
> On Jun 18, 4:42 pm, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: >> How does everyone feel about the following:
>> We push the meeting until the following week and Daniel can pick a >> paper for us to read and then finish the meetup with how/why they are >> using Riak and/or Hbase at Mozilla.
>> Daniel, are there any papers you read or took into account when >> considering what DB to use at Mozilla?
Daniel - Thanks for stepping up and helping with this meeting at your convenience. Please send along the required reading titles for next Thurday's meeting.
> Daniel - Thanks for stepping up and helping with this meeting at your
> convenience. Please send along the required reading titles for next
> Thurday's meeting.
