Hack/Reduce in Toronto

[Riku]

We organized a big data Hackathon a month ago in Montreal (http://www.hackreduce.org). It was great fun, and we're now bringing the event to Toronto, in June.

We're looking for a venue, probably at a University. If anyone wants to help, with promotion, organizing and finding a venue, you can contact me! It's a great event, brings together professional coders, students, companies. You get to learn Hadoop or just create something cool. In Montreal we had 150 Amazon extra large instances in use, for Toronto, it's going to be bigger. You can drop me an email at riku a hopper.travel if you're interested in helping, can find a venue or have good ideas.

Thanks!

[SNIPERDUDE]

I'd certainly check with University of Waterloo (from what I can tell a good percentage of this forum has gone to or goes to there for computer science) and University of Toronto (very large body and presence in Toronto). Sounds like a fun event

[Riku]

Yeah, I'm in contact with UofT and Ryerson. Let's hope we get a good venue so that doesn't become a problem. So this will probably be a good board to get some students to attend as well? I'm wondering if there's a lot of people here working with big data or Hadoop.

[Tony]

there's occasional interest and maybe even experience through co-op, but big data does not seem prevalent in undergrad.

As a part of the event, will you also be providing the data-sets to hack with?

[Riku]

We provide datasets, some open and some exclusive. We're collecting some new ones now. We also take suggestions from participants if they want to work with specific datasets and pre-load them for them.