diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
index 35c143d1be8..8e1b531d452 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ HBase includes:
 
         </section>
         <section name="News">
+            <p>August 22nd, <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/28518471/">HBase Hackathon (11AM) and Meetup (6PM)</a> at FB in PA</p>
             <p>June 30th, <a href="http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/events/20572251/">HBase Contributor Day</a>, the day after the <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/events/hadoopsummit2011/">Hadoop Summit</a> hosted by Y!</p>
             <p>June 8th, <a href="http://berlinbuzzwords.de/wiki/hbase-hackathon">HBase Hackathon</a> in Berlin to coincide with <a href="http://berlinbuzzwords.de/">Berlin Buzzwords</a></p>
             <p>May 19th, HBase 0.90.3 released. <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/">Download it!</a></p>