Hello, The Twin Cities Hadoop User Group will be having a session on Monday August 29th at The Nerdery in Bloomington. Details here: http://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Hadoop-User-Group/events/28116971/ In addition, I would like to announce the first public Hadoop training in Minneapolis along with a 10% discount for TC-LUG members. Full disclosure, I work at Cloudera as an instructor. I am looking forward to teaching in my hometown! The first is more for software types, where the second is for administration folks. Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop - Minneapolis - Sept 12-14 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1951158969/eorg (~$2000 with discount code tclug) Cloudera Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop - Minneapolis - Sept 15-16 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1951160975/eorg (~$1500 with discount code tclug) Cheers, Brock Noland