Intros and such - why are you here?

[Zachary Oglesby]

Hello, my name is Zach and I am a big data junky. (Holds for the "Hello
Zach").

I am interested in the Big Data SIG because it is pertinent to my work,
where we are using Hadoop and Cassandra for several applications currently
in development. As a recovering DBA I was opposed to this move but now that
I have seen "Big Data technologies" working I am very impressed and would
love to see Fedora step up its game in this area.


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Sam Skipsey <sskipsey at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So, I'm Sam Skipsey, and I'm one of the "Data Experts" for GridPP, which
> is the collaboration which provides the UK's contribution to compute and
> data for the Large Hadron Collider, and other European grid computing
> projects.
>
> We obviously deal with reasonably large amounts of data across the wider
> grid, and within our larger sites (we have several sites in the UK which
> have more than a PB of storage, the total capacity of GridPP is more than
> 20PB, and that of the worldwide grid is hundreds of PB according to my
> monitoring). Our methods of data management and movement are a bit
> different to some of the traditional Big Data models, for the most part,
> but we're always interested in cross-fertilisation between projects that
> manage lots of data. (And, of course, newer academic Big Data projects
> might be better suited to approaches that we don't currently use.) A
> majority of our install base uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives
> (mostly Scientific Linux), so Fedora's approaches are also directly
> interesting to us.
>
> So, I'm here mostly observing to see what happens in the SIG, and might be
> reporting back to our storage group in the UK.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On 7 March 2013 11:09, Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Since this is a new SIG and all that, I thought it would be lovely to
>> perhaps introduce ourselves, and say a bit about why you're here and
>> interested. Whether you're already doing things in this area, you'd
>> like to learn about it, you want to do things, or you're just here to
>> observe, or any other reason - any reason is a great reason :)
>>
>> And I guess that means: I get to go first. Hah.
>>
>> So, a bit about me and my interests here:
>>
>> I'm Robyn, I'm the Fedora Project Leader, and I like to make new
>> things happen. :)
>>
>> Why big data? A few reasons:
>>
>> #1: I've always had a fascination with data and how it can be used as
>> part of a decision-making process. I believe that agility is one of
>> the most important differentiating factors for organizations. The
>> ability to do things quickly, identify key trends and data points, and
>> make decisions and act upon knowledge, enables organizations to move
>> more intelligently.  And by intelligently I mean this: (a) Predicting
>> the right thing to do based upon patterns, (b) being able to detect
>> signs that you're doing the wrong thing - so that you can fix that
>> faster.
>>
>> The cloud brings us the ability to utilize, deploy, orchestrate
>> infrastructure more rapidly; having lots of data points, and the
>> ability to analyze that information, comes through big data. Putting
>> those two things together gets you to the point where you can analyze
>> faster, or on a more ad-hoc basis, or deliver the capability to
>> analyze random things more rapidly to the person who wants to act upon
>> information.
>>
>> #2: SCIENCE! I think it's interconnected hugely here. I like to think
>> that what we do in Fedora can help to change the world.  There is more
>> information than ever about every little bit of the universe we live
>> in, and helping people to sort through that leads to making the world
>> a better place. I'll be passing out banjos and marshmallows for the
>> campfire at the end of our meeting. Kumbaya :)
>>
>> #3: I think that people like to tinker with and learn about new stuff,
>> and that Fedora is a great place to do that - "features" and "first"
>> are two of our awesome foundations.  But I think that people are more
>> interested in "the new stuff" than they are interested in "what it
>> runs on" - so I hope that in bringing some interesting tools to
>> Fedora, and making them work well, we can inspire some new people to
>> use Fedora.  And hopefully inspire them to also become contributors,
>> broaden the set of tools that we offer, give feedback about what we're
>> doing, and encourage them to share *what* and *how* they did things.
>>
>> And that was long-winded. So I'll stop there. :D
>>
>> Anyone else?
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