> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 04:09:04 -0700
> From: Robyn Bergeron <robyn.bergeron@gmail.com>
> To: bigdata@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Intros and such - why are you here?
I'm John, and I'm a Fedora User.>
> 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?
>
/me waits for the murmurs of "Hi, John" to die down.
I'm here for several reasons. FIrst, I like shiny new stuff, and I like to take
that shiny new stuff and do things to it that the creators did not have in mind
at all. Secondly, as a member of the QA team, I may be able to suggest test
days and the like. Thirdly, it's good to just stay informed about what is coming
down the pipe in Fedora.
John Dulaney.
PS: If Robyn is passing out banjos, I'll take one of these:
http://www.stellingbanjo.com/custom2.htm
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