[Gllug] Heads-up: March meeting, "pavement to cloud"

[Nahuel Marisi]

I never managed to go to a GLLug meeting and I'm hoping I'll get to go  
to this one.

My only question is, what does a lighting talk entail?

Cheers,
Nahuel


On 28 Feb 2009, at 09:27, David L Neil Mailing list a/c wrote:

> Our next meeting will be held during the afternoon of Saturday 28  
> March
> 2009, at Westminster University.
>
>
> "From the pavement to the cloud":-
>
> Peter Brownell (School of Everything) and David O'Dwyer
> (t4partnership.com) built a scalable server infrastructure to host
> Schoolofeverything.com using (Drupal on Debian on) Amazon's EC2  
> cloud to
> be able to scale with growth - without the up-front expense. Did they
> find the switch from hardware servers to virtual machines a welcome  
> move?
>
> Shaun McDonald (CloudMade) discovered OpenStreetMap during his final
> year at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and has helped run field
> work in ever more exotic locations since. His talk will introduce the
> system architecture and data/tagging model. We will then learn the
> practicalities of the project and go out on our own mapping party of  
> the
> local area before returning to refine/update our local map with the
> proceeds.
>
> As usual, at the end of the day we shall decant to a local hostelry.
>
>
> This is an announcement. More complete details will be provided closer
> to the date. Suggestions and other contributions will be welcomed.
>
> You could improve the meetings programme by suggesting (preferably
> recommending) speakers, giving a 'lightning talk', or by contributing
> your own time and expertise. Please contact Stephen Nelson-Smith or
> myself...
>
>
> Regards,
> =dn
> (on behalf of the 'gang of four'/GLLUG (meetings) leadership team)
>
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