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Reminder: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin Today

October 7, 2010
Mahout, Berlin, Hadoop, Get Together, Software Foundation

Reminder: Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin Today # Just a brief reminder: The Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin is supposed to take place today in newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48 at 5p.m. The meeting features two talks on Apache Mahout: Committer Sebastian Schelter will explain how to scale recommender systems with Mahout. Contributor Max Heimel is going to give an introduction to the sequence labeling facilities available in Mahout. As usual the group will move over to Cafe Aufsturz after the meetup is over. ...

Apache Dinner October Today in Potsdam

October 4, 2010
Potsdam, Dinner, Apache Dinner Berlin, Software Foundation, Apache Dinner

Apache Dinner October Today in Potsdam # The Apache Dinner Berlin will take place today. As always, everybody is invited even if you didn’t participate in the poll ( http://doodle.com/8bi2456enwe6z2g6). This time around the dinner was organised by Daniel Naber. Thanks! When: Monday, 2010-10-04, 19:30 Where: Lindencafe, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Str. 47/48, 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg, This is directly next to the S-Bahn (S7, Babelsberg). Looking forward to meeting you there!

Berlin Scrumtisch - open discussion

August 25, 2010
Self organising teams, Scrum, Definition of done, Team Motivation, Software Foundation, Decision making

Berlin Scrumtisch - open discussion # This evening the Berlin Scrumtisch took place in Friedrichshain. More than thirty participants followed Marion’s invitation for discussions on Scrum, wine and pizza at Vecchia Trattoria. As there were several new participants, Felix started out with a very brief summary of the very core concepts of Scrum itself: Most important to know is the basic assumption of Scrum, that is planning ahead of time in a very detailed way is impossible. ...

Apache Dinner DUS

August 17, 2010
Free Software, FSFE, General, Dinner, Freetime, DUS, Software Foundation

Apache Dinner DUS # the evening after FrOSCon - that is on August 22nd 2010 at 7:30p.m. CEST - a combined “FSFE Fellowship meetup/ Apache dinner*” takes place in Tigges in Düsseldorf (Brunnenstraße 1, at Bilker S-Bahnhof). Given it doesn’t rain, we’ll be sitting outside. Would be great to meet you there for tasty food, interesting discussions on Apache in general, as well as projects like Lucene, Hadoop or Tomcat in particular. ...

Apache Dinner August Berlin recap

August 9, 2010
Berlin, Dinner, Software Foundation, Apache Dinner Berlin

Apache Dinner August Berlin recap # This evening yet another Apache Dinner took place in Berlin (this time Schöneberg), location booked by Simon Willnauer. As it was announced less then a week ago (see post below) we were expecting no more then some 7 people … we ended up being a group of 15 attendees: There was Michi Busch from Twitter together with Tanja, Uwe Schindler from Bremen joined us. ...

Apache Dinner Berlin - August 2010

August 4, 2010
Dinner, Software Foundation, Apache Dinner Berlin

Apache Dinner Berlin - August 2010 # Simon (Willnauer) just sent around the following e-mail. If you have some time left next Monday evening, come join us in Yogihaus: For tasty Indian food, geeky discussions and a generally beautiful evening. Unlike the other dinner mails this one is not a poll, it’s an announcement. Some Apache folks are in town next monday (9th of August) so we decided to have a Apache Dinner with a short term notice. ...

Part 1: Travelling minds

August 3, 2010
Getting things done, Scrum, Free Software, Freetime, Hacking, Software Foundation

Part 1: Travelling minds # In the last post I promised to share some more information on techniques I came across and found useful under an increasing work load. Instead of taking a close look at my professional calendar I decided to use my private one as an example - first because spare time is even more precious then working hours, simply because there is so few of it and secondly because I am free to publicly scrutinize not only the methods for keeping it in good shape but also the entries in it. ...

Series: Getting things done

July 30, 2010
Getting things done, Scrum, Free Software, Freetime, Hacking, Software Foundation

Series: Getting things done # Probably not too unusual for people working on free software mostly (though no longer exclusively) in their spare time, the number of items that appear in my private calendar have increased steadily in the past months and years: Every three months I am organising the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin. I have been asked (and accepted the offer) to publish articles on Hadoop and Lucene in magazines. ...

Apache Lunch in Portugal

July 15, 2010
Software Foundation

Apache Lunch in Portugal # Just read on the Apache community mailing list that inspired by our Apache Dinner Berlin people in Porto are organising an Apache Lunch event. As with the dinner here in Berlin, anyone who is interested in Apache is welcome to join - no need to be a committer or even ASF member ;) If you are living close to Porto, or always wanted to visit the city - after all it’s a very beautiful place, there is a beach close by, there are many tasty restaurants - don’t hesitate to get in touch with the organisers: ...