Have you already started to try out these new storage/database things commonly referred to as NoSQL? (For you google-bot, I'm talking about CouchDB, Cassandra, HBase, Hadoop, Hypertable, MongoDB, Tokyo Cabinet, etc). Well, it's one thing to install and use them but another to understand all the computer science background about them.
Therefor many developers around the world thought to make this summer a
NoSQL summer. Local meetings are held in many cities: London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris,
lake constance ...
If you like to meet for a beer and learn and discuss about some of the hottest stuff in computing, then come around! Please
select the dates when you can join and the
papers you'd like to discuss. You can subscribe to email announcements or ical and rss feeds at the
lake constance nosql summer page.