According to Yahoo! Developer Network, "Hadoop User Group meetings have now been held in Beijing, Berlin, London, New York, San Diego and Washington DC, in addition to the Bay Area, with one in the works in Bangalore." I say it's high time we hearty Minnesotans (and Iowans, and Wisconsinites) band together and share our ideas, tricks, updates, and experiences using Apache Hadoop and its subprojects. We'll discuss all aspects of coding, supporting, and learning about Hadoop, Avro, Chukwa, HB …