[mhvlug] [REMINDER] MHVLUG Meeting - Wednesday, September 5th at 6 pm

[sean]

Mid Hudson Valley Linux and Open Source Users Group Follow Us MHVLUG is proud to announce our September meeting: Towards an Open Cloud with OpenStack Amazon has made a big splash over the past 6 years with their ever growing cloud services. Starting with virtual machines as a service and cheap object storage, to their “human as a service” via mechanical turk, what you can now accomplish with an API call from your laptop is pretty amazing. It’s created a shift in the industry in how we think about computing resources. OpenStack is an Open Source Infrastructure as a Service layer, conceptually similar to some of the Amazon Web Services. Originally created by Rackspace and NASA to address their internal computing needs, it’s now grown into vibrant Open Source community that involves developers from Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, HP, Intel and many many more. It powers public clouds at Rackspace and HP, it’s powering infrastructure at Wikipedia, CERN, and Ebay. Come out for a great night. You’ll l earn about Cloud Computing in general, OpenStack in particular, and why and how you might want to get involved. Sean Dague is the president and founder of MHVLUG. By day he's a software engineer in IBM's Linux Technology Center. By night he's an open source hacker who is especially interested in web and mobile technologies. He's presented in the past on numerous topics. Lightning Talks OpenThinClient - Al Jachimiak HTML5 FU - Chris Joslyn - uncovering the lies I may have told about HTML5 Sign up for some! The meeting space opens up at 5pm for pre meeting general discussion, question asking, show and tell, and setup. All are welcome to join. If you are planning on using the projector for your lightning talk, please arrive at 5:30 to ensure we can work out any kinks with the projector prior to the meeting. The meeting will take place at Multi Purpose Room, 2nd Floor College Center, Vassar College on Wednesday, September 5th at 6 pm. All meetings are free and open to the public, and everyone from all levels of expertise and interest in Linux and Open Source Software are encouraged to attend (and bring a friend or two)! After each meeting ends everyone is welcome to join in on an informal dinner gathering at the Palace Diner on Washington St. This is a great opportunity to interact with members of the local Linux community, and a forum where questions and comments are strongly welcomed. For more details, including maps and directions, please see the meeting page. Show your support for MHVLUG by RSVPing at our Meetup Page.

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Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm)                         Vassar College
  Sep 5 - Towards an Open Cloud with OpenStack
  Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development
  Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art