[skrebbel]

> If you want to come talk to the MongoDB team, both our offices hold open office hours[2] where you can come and talk to the actual development teams. We try to be incredibly open, so please come and get to know us.

I envy how all your (potential) customers are from California.

[mnutt]

I've been to their open office hours in NYC and, though we don't have a support contract, they were incredibly welcoming and helpful.

[mschireson]

Besides office hours in California NY and London we also have user groups in many cities http://www.10gen.com/user-groups and have (one day, very inexpensive) developer conferences frequently (next two in Dallas and Seattle).

[meghan]

We try to get as much face to face time with the community as possible. Check out 10gen.com/events and 10gen.com/user-groups.

[kanwisher]

Half the startups in NYC use mongo, but that might be cause they are connected to Union Sq Ventures

[martin_sunset]

Or it might be because MongoDb really shines in the typical start-up use case...

[einhverfr]

Or at least better than MySQL for cases where not all data fits a perfect relational model?