Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Looking for an In-Depth speaker

I think this sounds good. Sonia.

* Silvia Pfeiffer <[email protected]> [2008-05-18 21:29:39 +1000]:

> Hi all,
> 
> I can offer a general talk about the use of open source software in an
> Internet startup. I was meant to give this talk at a CISRA-internal
> gropu, but was told last minute that CISRA management do not want to
> be seen to support Open Source.
> 
> Here's the talk title and abstract:
> 
> Title: Use of Open Source Software in Vquence
> 
> Abstract:
> Vquence is an Australian start-up that provides services around online
> video. Vquence has built a consumer site (currently at
> http://www.vquence.com/) that allows people to create video playlists
> from millions of videos aggregated from multiple social video sites.
> In addition, Vquence is currently building a new service around online
> video tracking and measuring.
> The software implemented to create these services is completely built
> using open source software. The Web sites are built using Ruby on
> Rails, AJAX, MySQL, joomla and Apache. The crawling software is
> written in Java. The servers are diverse, ranging from Amazon EC2 &
> S3, to Xen virtual servers and some dedicated servers - all running
> Ubuntu Linux.
> This talk will explain open source software used to run the business,
> and to develop the services. I will address the decisions behind
> choosing the diverse software packages and how they all work together.
> It will also explain the advantages and disadvantages of using open
> source software in such a commercial environment where high
> scalability and reliability are required.
> 
> I think it's a general talk, but leave the decision to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello SLUGgers!
> >
> > We are in need of a speaker for our In-Depth slot (19:45-20:30) at the next
> > SLUG meeting on Friday, May 30. Please let us know if you have something that
> > you'd like to talk about.
> >
> > This of course goes for any meeting, not just for the next one. You can
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> > (barring December).
> >
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