We started the evening by first covering our official mission statement, I then gave a Martin Fowler inspired introduction to NoSQL and set the stage for our three domain-specialists. In order to entice the audience to participate during the Q&A sessions, we did a little experiment. We told everyone that with each question, we would add their name to a hat, and raffle of a rather swanky prize at the end of the evening. "How did that experiment go?" You may ask... Let's just say it's the first time we had to bring the questions to an end in order to get on to the next presentation.
The prize was a wifi-enabled 1TB hard-drive with media-playback functionality and was quite resentful when finally handing it over to the winner!
With MongoDB Beijing complete, Mathias Stern (from 10gen) popped-over to Kuala Lumpur for a visit. The moment I heard that 10gen would be visiting, I wanted to try something different. My primary place of work is from a co-working space in Bangsar called Nook, which is why I probably wanted to experiment with a day of co-working. Daniel Yap, the owner of Nook was gracious enough to open his space for the day and allow us to run a day and evening of events.
