With a little help from my friends # The end of the year 2009 is quickly approaching. To me it feels a little like it ran away far too quickly. So instead of taking part in the annual review of past events, I would like to use it as an opportunity to say thank you: The past twelve months were a lot of fun with lots of interesting, nice people from all over the world. ...
First December Apache Hadoop Berlin video online # The video of Nikolaus’ Pohle’s talk at the December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin is online already - more to come soon. hadoop nikolaus pohle from Isabel Drost on Vimeo. Thanks to Martin from newthinking for video taping and uploading. Thanks to StudiVZ for sponsoring the video.
Summary - December Get Together # Today the seventh Apache Hadoop Get Together took place in Berlin. The room was again packed with more than 40 people from various companies with and without practical experience with Hadoop: There were people from Nokia Gate 5, Sun, nurago, StudiVZ, Dawanda, Last.fm, nugg.ad. There were people from academia, e.g. HPI Potsdam. And a few Freelancers interested in the topic or providing help with Hadoop. ...
On Thursday: Open Hadoop User Group Munich # If one evening of Apache Hadoop is not enough for you: The next Christmas Meetup in Germany takes place one day later in Munich. <li When: Thursday December 17, 2009 at 5:30pm open end Where: eCircle AG, Nymphenburger Straße 86, 80636 München (“Bruckmann” Building, “U1 Mailinger Str”, map in German http://www.ecircle.com/de/kontakt/anfahrt.html and look for the signs) Talks scheduled by Bob and Lars: ...
On Wednesday: December Apache Hadoop @ Berlin # This week on Wednesday at 5p.m. the December Hadoop Get Together takes place in newthinking store Berlin. Talks scheduled so far: Richard Hutton (nugg.ad): “Moving from five days to one hour.” Jörg Möllenkamp (Sun): “Hadoop on Sun” Nikolaus Pohle (nurago): “M/R for MR - Online Market Research powered by Apache Hadoop. Enable consultants to analyze online behavior for audience segmentation, advertising effects and usage patterns. ...
Though the official schedule is not yet online: I will be giving an introductory talk about Apache Hadoop at next
year’s FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting) in Brussles. This will be the 10th birthday of the
event - looking forward to a fun event, meeting other free and open source software developers from all over
Europe.
Reminder: Apache Hadoop Get Together next week # Just a tiny little reminder: The Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin is scheduled to take place next week on Wednesday. When: 16th of December 8PM Where: newthinking store Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte Kindly sponsored by: newthinking store (location) and StudiVZ (videos). Please regist er (or use Xing for registration) so planning becomes a bit easier. Talks scheduled: Richard Hutton (nugg.ad): “Moving from five days to one hour. ...
Mahout 0.2 released # Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public download at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout Up to date maven artifacts can be found in the Apache repository at https://repository.apache.org/cont ent/repositories/releases/org/apache/mahout/ Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Mahout is a machine learning library meant to scale: Scale in terms of community to support anyone interested in using machine learning. ...
December Apache Hadoop Get Together @ Berlin # As announced at ApacheCon US, the next Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin is scheduled for December 2009. When: Wednesday December 16, 2009 at 5:00pm Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin As always there will be slots of 20min each for talks on your Hadoop topic. After each talk there will be a lot time to discuss. You can order drinks directly at the bar in the newthinking store. ...
Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # Title: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin Location: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte Link out: Click here Description: The upcoming Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin will feature four talks by people explaining how they put Hadoop to good use in their entreprise. Table at Cafe Aufsturz is booked already. Talks will be announced late next week. Start Time: 17:00 Date: 2009-12-16