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

Yup, no problem.
Ciao,
Silvia.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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