SARA organizes a kick-off meeting for its Proof-of-Concept Hadoop service on Dec 7, 2010 at the Science Park, Amsterdam. A major part of the event will be a “hackathon”, a hands-on introduction to Hadoop, with the support of two Hadoop-experts: Edgar Meij and Djoerd Hiemstra. It’s a good opportunity to learn about Hadoop and play with it on existing datasets (for example the Wikipedia, ENRON, or White House access records), or on a case of choice.