For our german speaking folks, we want to start a Hadoop-BI Usergroup in Stuttgart (Germany), if you have interest in please visit our LinkedIn Group (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Hadoop-Germany-4325443) and our Doodle poll (http://www.doodle.com/aqwsg4snbwimrsfc). If we figure out a real interest we will call for sponsors and speakers later.
(german) Schwerpunkte: - Integration von Hadoop / HDFS basierenden Lösungen in bestehende Infrastrukturen - Export von Daten aus Relationalen Datenbanken in NoSQL / Analyse Cluster (HBase, Hive) - Statistische Auswertungen (Mahout) - ISO kompatible Lösungsansätze Backup und Recovery, HA mittels OpenSource -- Alexander Alten-Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF