Hello Travis, I would also like to join the meetup, but I think it's just possible via WebEx or something like that, as I am located in Europe. What time and time zone do you suggest for "Thursday, Sept 20th"?
Best wishes Mirko On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Joshi, Rekha <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Travis, > > Would love to attend this - Is this a webex/conf call? > > Thanks > Rekha > > On 11/09/12 5:33 AM, "Travis Crawford" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Works for me. I'll inquire about reserving a room for the afternoon > >and ping this list after confirming. > > > >--travis > > > > > >On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> > >wrote: > >> +1, let's do this. Thanks for offering to host. Would Thursday, Sept > >>20th be a good day for this? > >> > >> Alan. > >> > >> On Sep 8, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Travis Crawford wrote: > >> > >>> Hey hcat gurus - > >>> > >>> Anyone interested in having an HCat meetup in the next few weeks? I > >>> think it would be great to see how others are using it, have some > >>> design discussions, and learn more about unfamiliar corners of the > >>> code. I can host at Twitter - we'd need to see how many people are > >>> interested in coming though. What might be good is making an afternoon > >>> of it, and people can stop by for lunch before-hand if they want. > >>> > >>> Here's an agenda to get the conversation started want to change > >>>anything? > >>> > >>> * Introductions > >>> - Who you are, how you're using hcat. > >>> > >>> * Demos > >>> - HCatalog thrift support > >>> - Your demo here! (webhcat?) > >>> > >>> * Developer efficiency discussion > >>> - Review latency (RTC/CTR; other strategies to improve our shipping > >>>cadence) > >>> - Testing: > >>> - how to run e2e tests > >>> - what to run before commits > >>> > >>> * Project design discussion > >>> - HCat CLI what's the vision here? Why not just use the Hive > >>> CLI? What distinguishes the HCat-specific version? > >>> - HCat server what's the vision here? Why not just direct users > >>> to setup a HiveMetaStore and point to the Hive documentation? > >>> - Type conversions how to address framework-specific conversions > >>> (pig doesn't have byte for example, but MR does) > >>> - Any other design issues you want to discuss? > >>> > >>> * "Unconference" discussions > >>> - Two rounds of discussions on topics proposed by the group. > >>> - 2-3 discussions per-round in different parts of the room; just > >>> go to the topic that sounds interesting. > >>> - Recap at the end. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >>> > >>> --travis > >> > > -- -- Mirko Kämpf +49 176 20 63 51 99 [email protected]
