[announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow, other announcements

[NYC*BUG Announcements]

A bunch of things for all to know. . . read on at any rate, kind public.

Note that NYCBUG is (finally) on:

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=264110491163
Linkedin

And on IRC, #nycbug has been moved to efnet

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This month's meeting is. . .

January 06, 2010
Hadoop a Worldwind Tour

6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant
http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

This presentation gives a brief high level overview of Hadoop. Next, we
hit the ground running with a quick practical example of how Hadoop
solves a "big data" problem. We also discuss how the demonstrated Hadoop
processing model scales out to terabytes of data and hundreds or even
thousands of computers.

slides are at http://www.nycbug.org/files/meeting_2010-01.pdf

Edward Capriolo, works at About.com System Operations. When not in
break-fix mode, he researches high/traffic high-availability and
scalable solutions. Edward is a committer to the Apache Hadoop Hive sub
project.

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February will be Aidan Cully on Systems Programming on a Chip

March will be Professor Ike Levy on pfSense in a Commercial Environment, 
or it's not just for kids anymore

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Note that BSDCan is moving full steam ahead.

http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/

It will be held May 13-14, with two days of tutorials beforehand.

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Also, there will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session on February 7.

See http://www.bsdcertification.org for more details.

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And if you've made it this far in the email, then the easter egg is. . .

NYCBSDCon 2010 will be happening in late October.