Upcoming NoSQL Summer - Boston Meetup

[Mark Phillips]

Hey all,

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

[Matt Passell]

Hi Mark,

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?

Thanks,
Matt

[kylesm]

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].

ks


[1] http://nosqlsummer.org/paper/designing-and-deploying-internet-scale-services

[Mark Phillips]

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.

Best,

Mark

[Kyle Smith]

I am planning on attending.

[Matt Passell]

I'll be there. :)

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!

[Daniel E]

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

[Matt Passell]

Hi Daniel,

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/ ;)

--Matt

[Vladimir Vuksan]

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 :-).

Vladimir

[Daniel Rinehart]

I am unfortunately unable to make the meeting on the 24th but am
excited that this group has started and hope my schedule is open for
future meetings.

-- Daniel R. <dan...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Mark Phillips <ma...@basho.com> wrote:

[Daniel E]

I'll ping over there. I really have to do a better job of keeping up
to speed with conferences going on in my area. :)

On Jun 18, 1:56 pm, Matt Passell <mpass...@grovehillsoftware.com>
wrote:

[Mark Phillips]

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?

Thoughts?

Mark

[Matt Passell]

The same time on Thursday, July 1st would work for me.  Your meeting agenda/schedule sounds good, too.

--Matt

[Daniel E]

I'll post a few articles I found very helpful.
I believe I can make July 1 without a problem as well.

[Daniel Rinehart]

July 1st would work well for me.

-- Daniel R. <dan...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]

[Mark Phillips]

Great! Then let's plan on July 1st at 7EST.

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.

Best,

Mark

[betehess]

Hi all,

On Jun 21, 10:55 am, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote:
> Great! Then let's plan on July 1st at 7EST.

Is there an official page where we can register and keep track of who
will attend?

Alexandre Bertails.