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?
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?
I'm John, and I'm a Fedora User. /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
Hello,
I'm Daniel and I'm very interested in Cloud and Big Data technologies . Actually i'm working in a project in the college that include Flume-NG, Hadoop and Cassandra.Also I work in a company that develop search engines, recommendations and other solutions to e-commerce, we serve the largest e-commerce in latin america and others. Data is our business. :)
In Fedora as Ambassador, I'm a former member famsco and mentor to new ambassadors in latam, also I help in the latam infrastructure and I maintain some packages.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:59 PM, John Dulaney jdulaney@fedoraproject.orgwrote:
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?
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?
I'm John, and I'm a Fedora User. /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 _______________________________________________ bigdata mailing list bigdata@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/bigdata
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