[Noisebridge-discuss] MongoDB Office Hours

[kjs]

I feel this is an excellent discussion. 

I'm curious how folks think maintenance and enhancement of open source software jives with anti-gentrification efforts. Has this been studied? Does anyone have experience with the two together? 

Also, I assume all are welcome to attend the proposed office hours, meaning not exclusive to only thoes with a service contract. Bryan, is this the case and where can one go to discover the time and place of these sessions? 

-Kevin


On July 21, 2015 2:12:01 PM PDT, Bryan Reinero <breinero at gmail.com> wrote:
>I think donating to Noisebridge is certainly reasonable, and I'll
>happily ask for budget. I'd just need to know what the community agrees
>on as far as rate goes. 
>
>I think a generalized database group is fantastic idea and I'd be happy
>to participate in that group whenever asked or welcome to. However, I'm
>only really qualified or comfortbable speaking about MongoDB. It'd be
>truly innapropriate for me to organize an event that talks about other
>databases.
>
>-Bry 
>
>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Harry Moreno <morenoh149 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> @bryan is there any budget or possibility for monetary donation from
>mongodb?
>> 
>> Idea: you can turn it into a generic databases support group. Where
>mongodb isn't pushed over other solutions.
>> 
>> On Jul 21, 2015 12:42 PM, "Praveen Sinha" <dmhomee at gmail.com
><mailto:dmhomee at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> The fact remains that you are wanting to use a commons space to
>develop for-profit MongoDB markets at no cost to you, while your
>company is intaking hand over first capital, while the noisebridge
>community foots the bill for our rather expensive per square foot rent.
> 
>> 
>> If I can't make it to consensus tonight, I ask the nb community to
>seriously consider the trade-offs of corporate colonization.  We have
>the brains in this community, we are the ones with the tech talent here
>with or without corporate backing.  Our community has problems, our
>community has temporary funding issues, but we can solve them without
>giving these reps a free pass.
>> 
>> If we do let them do their "office hours" (market development) in our
>space, then we really need to consider if we are really going to be
>helped by this.  We also need to consider that MongoDB raised almost a
>quarter billion in capital over the past 2 years, and 80 million this
>year alone.  
>> 
>> If we are going to bring corporations in, let's have some discipline,
>get a good rate, and bring in competitors.  Play them before they play
>us.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Bryan Reinero <breinero at gmail.com
><mailto:breinero at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I realize "Office Hours" is a bit confusing name. It's just an
>opportunity for anyone who has questions about MongoDB to get some one
>on one time with an engineer. The name office hours comes from the idea
>of having scheduled times that college professors where in-office and
>available for students to ask questions. People come to these session
>with questions at all levels of experience. Sometimes we talk about
>application design, sometimes distributed systems, sometimes the NoSQL
>ecosystem. There's no agenda or sales pitch. Just a desire to help
>users with the database.
>> 
>> Personally, I really enjoy partcipating in these Q&A session since I
>love sharing knowledge and helping people understand technology. Plus,
>as knowledge sharing is a two way street, I learn new things from other
>engineers by working in this collaborative fashion. One of my favorite
>experiences was helping a neuroscientist white-board a data processing
>architecture for his research in Parkinson's Disease. 
>> 
>> I also believe in the powers of cross-polinated technology, and think
>having these Q&A sessions a Noisebridge would foster interesting
>connections. I am a DIYer myself, with an Arduino, Rasberry Pi and a
>CNC project in progress. You can get an idea of who I am from the
>projects in my blog, http://bryanreinero.com/
><http://bryanreinero.com/> . The project I'm most proud of is here
>http://bryanreinero.com/camera-cranes/
><http://bryanreinero.com/camera-cranes/>
>> 
>> MongoDB is an open source database, free to download here:
>https://www.mongodb.org/ <https://www.mongodb.org/>. We also provide
>free online courses for everyone https://university.mongodb.com/
><https://university.mongodb.com/>. I'm happy to come to the meeting on
>Tuesday, introduce myself and answer any questions.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> Bryan
>> 
>>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 5:21 AM, subbes <subbes at gmail.com
><mailto:subbes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think it'd be really beneficial if this was discussed off-list
>>> 
>>> Tuesday meeting? 
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