[nycbug-talk] announce forward: meeting tomorrow

[George Rosamond]

If you're not on announce, you should be lists.nycbug.org. . . but here 
is the email that just went out:

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