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From: Jennifer 8. Lee <[address removed]>
Date: Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Subject: July 27: Behind The New York Times' Moment in Time Project, First Major Use of MongoDB
To: [address removed]

The Hacks/Hackers NYC group, which brings technologists and
journalists together, is having a July Meetup looking at the first
major NYTimes project that uses MongoDB, its reader upload submission
form, which was spearheaded by Jacqui Maher (Her write-up here.
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/building-a-better-submission-form/)

What: Behind the 10K+ photos in The New York Times' Moment in Time Project

When: Tuesday, July 27,[masked]:00 PM

Price: $5.00 per person

Where: Open Plans Penthouse
148 Lafayette St. 12th Fl.
New York, NY 10013
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Come behind the scenes in The New York Times "Moment in Time" project,
which generated 14,000 photo submissions from around the world
chronicling an instant on May 2, 2010.

It was a project which pushed the boundaries of technology,
photography, and community. Listen to those who conceived, built,
publicized and synthesized what turned out to be a project of global
scope. You will hear about project's ups, downs, hurdles, and
surprises.

Speakers include Zach Wise, multimedia producer; Jim Estrin,
photographer; and potentially others in the team

This was the first major use of Stuffy, the Times' latest-generation
reader submission system. Stuffy is a ?NoSQL? storage engine to make
customized forms very simple built with Ruby on Rails and MongoDB. It
presents schema-less, fully customizable data store. Each document can
have its own set of fields, but there?s none of the traditional
overhead of relational database systems. Document-oriented databases
also offer speed and scalability, which is a high priority for
NYTimes.com.

It's taking place at the Open Plans' beautiful penthouse space (thanks
to Elizabeth Green and Gotham Schools). It's worth coming to the
Meetup just to experience it.
Photos here: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/02/sneak-peek-ltl-architects-ashley-christine.html.

RSVP to this Meetup:
http://meetupnyc.hackshackers.com/calendar/14065899/