Hello fellow Hadoop'ers,

Wow our next meetup is going to be extra special with two very well known speakers. Our next meetup is in Northern Virginia, with food & drink provided for an evening of fun and great discussion:

Christophe Bisciglia from Google and Cloudera fame, will be joining us, along with Dr. Jimmy Lin noted professor and Hadoop expert from UMD.

Cloudera's Founder, Christophe Bisciglia, will give a talk about simplifying Hadoop configuration, deployment and management using Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop. He'll talk about why Cloudera packaged a Hadoop distribution, and what specific challenges they are trying to address.

From Christophe: One of the most consistent issues we hear from the community is that Hadoop is a pain to deploy and manage. We released our distribution to take steps towards making Hadoop play nicely with standard systems already used to deploy and manage software. In our initial release, this means RPM packaging and standard linux service management, but we don't plan to stop here. We'll provide a walk through of deploying Hadoop using our distribution, but more importantly, listen to the community about what you like, what you don't, and what you'd like to see going forward.

Dr. Jimmy Lin publishes articles and code libraries using Hadoop, along with extensive research into large-data distributed applications with MapReduce. Dr. Lin will be discussing his work with Hadoop and data-analysis.

Pizza, sandwiches, and drinks will be provided by Booz Allen Hamilton.

This will be a really fun event so hope to see you there!