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

Hi Silvia,

This does sound like it'll make a great General Talk, but I'd like to have you 
at this Friday's meeting since nobody has offered an In-Depth Talk. Given 
that I expect an influx of people from CeBIT, most of whom will probably be 
more business- than technically-oriented, this could be a good thing.

Please let me know ASAP and I'll include your abstract in the announcement.

Regards,
Sridhar


On Sun, 18 May 2008 at 21:29, "Silvia Pfeiffer" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 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
> > generally assume that our meetings are on the last Friday of each month
> > (barring December).
> >
> > For more information on speaking at SLUG, please see these resources:
> >
> >  http://www.slug.org.au/meetings
> >  http://www.slug.org.au/cfp.html
> >  http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/guide.html
> >
> > If you're interested in participating in SLUG in other ways, please read
> > our guide to participation:
> >
> >  http://www.slug.org.au/participation
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan
> > President
> > Sydney Linux Users Group
> > http://www.slug.org.au
> >
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