Please tell, when is the next CLUG CLUG CLUG session and or meeting,
as a geographicaly challenged lurker like me would (I think??) like to
stumble upon one of your gatherings, when the space time thing is
conducive to such an event coming to be.
Had a look on the CLUG site but it is just so sloooow even this
time of the day, for us poor long suffering telecom neglected country
folk to try and get some dang fancy city web site down and up an running
without a satellite only to find it was last updated way back in the
staggering stages of the 2007´s and so ain´t gunna tell us much about
where you city folks get together to swap discks and bits and pieces and
do the eye ball locking thing, cheers Kevin
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Greetings CLUGgers,
We are fortunate to be offered a talk / lecture by Mike Culver, of the
Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services.
This promises to be one of the more interesting talks we have ever had.
The venue is still bing organized, but will in all probably be a
lecture theatre in the University.
Confirmation will follow as soon as possible.
However the date is firm, so please make an entry in your diary for
Monday 18 Feb 2008.
This is an open to the public lecture so if members who are on other
lists or affiliated to other organisations could forward this notice
to all and sundry that would be apprciated. Thanks.
Here is the blurb for Mike's Talk
<quote>
Session Description
What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a
mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some
thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in
(imagine computers programmatically calling people to perform tasks),
as well as introduce a concept known as "Web Scale Computing". The
presentation will also provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, and
feature a demonstration showing how to set up Amazon EC2.
More importantly, it's an opportunity for an interactive discussion
about what the future, shaped by Web services and Web Scale Computing,
looks like.
Amazon spent over 11 years and over $2 billion developing a
world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web
sites for millions of customers. Most people think "Amazon.com" when
they hear the word; however developers are excited to learn that there
is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web
Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications
leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that
powers Amazon's retail business. AWS has now launched ten services
with open API's for developers to build applications, with the result
that over 290,000 developers have registered on Amazon's developer
site to create applications based on these services.
Bio
Mike Culver joined the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web
Services in May, 2006. He brings with him fifteen years of technology
leadership experience, including at companies such as Microsoft. In
addition Mike has a strong background running an IT organization, with
over a decade of experience in the Electrical Wholesale Distribution
industry. As a Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, he helps developers
take advantage of disruptive technologies that are going to change the
way we think about computer applications, and the way that businesses
compete.
</quote>
