Since the first of September is Labor Day, let's take the month off!
Instead, I hope you will check out a couple of other great tech events planned in Central Oregon.
Microsoft Lunch and Learn
presented by COISUG
August 20, 12:30pm
McMenamin's Old St Francis School - Rambler Room
presented by BendTech
August 26, 5pm
McMenamin's Old St Francis School - Rambler Room
COWPU's normal meeting schedule will resume on Wednesday, October 1, 2008. We are always looking for speaker nominations and volunteers. Contact Jen if you would like to speak at an upcoming meeting.
Instead, I hope you will check out a couple of other great tech events planned in Central Oregon.
Microsoft Lunch and Learn
presented by COISUG
August 20, 12:30pm
McMenamin's Old St Francis School - Rambler Room
This will be a great event led by Chris Avis from Microsoft discussing Windows Server 2008 and other Microsoft technologies. If you have yet to attend an event led by Chris, this is your chance, a lot of fun and extremely informative. As always there will be giveaway, sodas, snacks (tater tots, pizza, fruit), and maybe a pint!Footgaming
presented by BendTech
August 26, 5pm
McMenamin's Old St Francis School - Rambler Room
About Footgaming and Judy Shasek: Judy is a Bend resident who has invented a very cool device that can replace a regular computer mouse with a foot operated mouse, for gamers. Judy has the patent, The FootGaming and FootPOWR project are games and peripherals used in consoles like Wii and PS2. FootGaming is an independent company encouraging active game play during thousands of existing casual games (Pogo.com, PopCap, WebKinz World etc).Hope to see you at one, or both of these events!
COWPU's normal meeting schedule will resume on Wednesday, October 1, 2008. We are always looking for speaker nominations and volunteers. Contact Jen if you would like to speak at an upcoming meeting.
Labels: meetings
Friday, August 1, 2008 at 6:30pm
Topic: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Location: Vince Genna Stadium
Don't miss out!!
Enjoy a laid back evening at the ball park with the COWPU crew (and maybe some of our friends from BendTech, WoTech, and COISUG). Bring your family, friends, or anyone else you want to cheer, chicken-dance, and do the YMCA with. This will be a great chance to network and enjoy the laid-back fun at the game!
What's that? Did someone say "BEER"? Why yes, they have SEVERAL outstanding brews on tap at Genna Stadium. In addition to Bud and Coors Light they also pour a variety of micros including Golden Glove Ale. It's brewed by Cascade Lakes and available exclusively at Bend Elks games!
Let us know how many seats to save! Click on over and RSVP on Upcoming. See ya there!!
Topic: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Location: Vince Genna Stadium
Don't miss out!!
Enjoy a laid back evening at the ball park with the COWPU crew (and maybe some of our friends from BendTech, WoTech, and COISUG). Bring your family, friends, or anyone else you want to cheer, chicken-dance, and do the YMCA with. This will be a great chance to network and enjoy the laid-back fun at the game!
What's that? Did someone say "BEER"? Why yes, they have SEVERAL outstanding brews on tap at Genna Stadium. In addition to Bud and Coors Light they also pour a variety of micros including Golden Glove Ale. It's brewed by Cascade Lakes and available exclusively at Bend Elks games!
Let us know how many seats to save! Click on over and RSVP on Upcoming. See ya there!!
Labels: meetings
Friday, August 1, 2008 at 6:30pm
Topic: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Location: Vince Genna Stadium
Enjoy a laid back evening at the ball park with the COWPU crew. Bring your family, friends, or anyone else you want to cheer, chicken-dance, and do the YMCA with. General admission tickets cost $5/person and you can buy them that night at the stadium or in advance at the "Pro Image" store (Cascade Village Mall).
From the Bend Elks website...
Agenda:
6:30pm - Gather near the box office so we can enter as a group. If you are late we will save a few extra seats. Hopefully we'll be on the third baseline near the top of the bleachers. (In the shade!)
7:00pm - Game time!
Topic: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Location: Vince Genna Stadium
Enjoy a laid back evening at the ball park with the COWPU crew. Bring your family, friends, or anyone else you want to cheer, chicken-dance, and do the YMCA with. General admission tickets cost $5/person and you can buy them that night at the stadium or in advance at the "Pro Image" store (Cascade Village Mall).
From the Bend Elks website...
Good old-fashioned baseball is back with the Bend Elks. Everything you love about baseball - Fierce competition. Wooden bats. Beer. And none of the things you don’t - Politics. Huge egos. Crowded parking lots. So get ready for some intense action. There’s no question that these up and comers are hungry to play in the big leagues. Having said that, we recommend you hang on to those autographs.If you want to let us know you are coming feel free to RSVP on Upcoming. See ya there!!
Agenda:
6:30pm - Gather near the box office so we can enter as a group. If you are late we will save a few extra seats. Hopefully we'll be on the third baseline near the top of the bleachers. (In the shade!)
7:00pm - Game time!
Labels: meetings
A big COWPU "thanks!!" to Ryan Stevens for his presentation about Cloud Computing at the last meeting. If you missed the meeting, or want to refresh your memory, Ryan was kind enough to upload his slides here.
We have a couple of options for our next meeting.
Our August date would technically fall on Friday, August 1. Would anyone be interested in organizing a social for that evening? Any suggestions for a location?
Another option is to have a regular meeting on Monday, August 4. Kate has reserved a room at OSU-Cascades. If you are interested in speaking or would like to recommend someone let me know.
Post your opinions in the comments, or feel free to give me a call. Looking forward to seeing everyone again, soon!
We have a couple of options for our next meeting.
Our August date would technically fall on Friday, August 1. Would anyone be interested in organizing a social for that evening? Any suggestions for a location?
Another option is to have a regular meeting on Monday, August 4. Kate has reserved a room at OSU-Cascades. If you are interested in speaking or would like to recommend someone let me know.
Post your opinions in the comments, or feel free to give me a call. Looking forward to seeing everyone again, soon!
Labels: announcements
Meeting Reminder - COWPU meets tomorrow!
1 Comments Published by Jen F on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 6/30/2008.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 6:00pm
Topic: Amazon Web Services - Is "Cloud Computing" the answer?
Location: McKay Cottage
Learn more about the topic here. If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm Going".
Hungry? Bring food for yourself... or better yet bring something yummy to share. Thirsty? Beverages are welcome too... as usual! Let us know what you're bringing in the comments or on the upcoming.org page.
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Presentation
Topic: Amazon Web Services - Is "Cloud Computing" the answer?
Location: McKay Cottage
Learn more about the topic here. If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm Going".
Hungry? Bring food for yourself... or better yet bring something yummy to share. Thirsty? Beverages are welcome too... as usual! Let us know what you're bringing in the comments or on the upcoming.org page.
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Presentation
Labels: announcements, meetings
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 6:00pm
Topic: Amazon Web Services - Is "Cloud Computing" the answer?
Location: McKay Cottage
So you've created a sweet web application... now what? Age old decisions come into play when determining where to host the application, who's going to manage the servers, and how much bandwidth is needed. Is "Cloud Computing" the answer? Can you really just "throw" your application on the cloud and have all your hosting nightmares disappear?
For the next COWPU meeting we will be discussing this new paradigm of cloud computing ushered in by Amazon Web Services. This new way of doing things forces developers and administrators to think in an entirely different way when implementing a solution on the cloud.
Need to serve images and video? Put them on S3 which has NO storage limit.
Need a server farm for a web application? Launch a load balancer, your app servers and database server in 5 min. When that server farm gets hammered with traffic, dynamically (programmatically) launch more app server on the fly... 5, 10, 50- No problem.
Do you have a batch processing task that takes 100 hours to crunch? Launch 100 servers and plow through it in a hour...
Total operational cost: $10.00.
We'll be discussing all the above scenarios as well as any negative downstream effects of cloud computing. Fore as we all know, with any new great way of doing things comes new challenges and considerations.
If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm Going".
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Presentation
Topic: Amazon Web Services - Is "Cloud Computing" the answer?
Location: McKay Cottage
So you've created a sweet web application... now what? Age old decisions come into play when determining where to host the application, who's going to manage the servers, and how much bandwidth is needed. Is "Cloud Computing" the answer? Can you really just "throw" your application on the cloud and have all your hosting nightmares disappear?
For the next COWPU meeting we will be discussing this new paradigm of cloud computing ushered in by Amazon Web Services. This new way of doing things forces developers and administrators to think in an entirely different way when implementing a solution on the cloud.
Need to serve images and video? Put them on S3 which has NO storage limit.
Need a server farm for a web application? Launch a load balancer, your app servers and database server in 5 min. When that server farm gets hammered with traffic, dynamically (programmatically) launch more app server on the fly... 5, 10, 50- No problem.
Do you have a batch processing task that takes 100 hours to crunch? Launch 100 servers and plow through it in a hour...
Total operational cost: $10.00.
We'll be discussing all the above scenarios as well as any negative downstream effects of cloud computing. Fore as we all know, with any new great way of doing things comes new challenges and considerations.
If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm Going".
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Presentation
Labels: meetings
June 2, 6:00pm
Topic: Nothing in particular
Location: McKay Cottage
Hello fellow Cowpuddlians!
The first of the month is just around the corner. Our group has McKay Cottage for June 2 at 6pm. The restaurant is offering a nice dinner for anyone that wishes to purchase a meal:
- Warm Goat Cheese Salad (Caramelized walnuts, roasted peppers, mixed greens, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette.)
- Pesto Chicken Pasta (Chicken and radiatori pasta served with a creamy pesto sauce, pine nuts, sun dried tomatoes, and mushrooms topped with fresh Parmesan.)
- Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding (Egg bread custard with chunks of tart apples and cinnamon, served with whiskey sauce.)
$11.95
Yummm... sure sounds good, doesn't it?! Please contact Jen directly if you wish to purchase a meal.
There is no speaker for this meeting, unless someone would like to step forward at the last minute. On the other hand, this might be a nice opportunity for us to socialize and chat about our projects and summer plans.
Hope to see you there!
If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm attending".
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Dinner is served!
Topic: Nothing in particular
Location: McKay Cottage
Hello fellow Cowpuddlians!
The first of the month is just around the corner. Our group has McKay Cottage for June 2 at 6pm. The restaurant is offering a nice dinner for anyone that wishes to purchase a meal:
- Warm Goat Cheese Salad (Caramelized walnuts, roasted peppers, mixed greens, goat cheese and balsamic vinaigrette.)
- Pesto Chicken Pasta (Chicken and radiatori pasta served with a creamy pesto sauce, pine nuts, sun dried tomatoes, and mushrooms topped with fresh Parmesan.)
- Apple Cinnamon Bread Pudding (Egg bread custard with chunks of tart apples and cinnamon, served with whiskey sauce.)
$11.95
Yummm... sure sounds good, doesn't it?! Please contact Jen directly if you wish to purchase a meal.
There is no speaker for this meeting, unless someone would like to step forward at the last minute. On the other hand, this might be a nice opportunity for us to socialize and chat about our projects and summer plans.
Hope to see you there!
If you are interested in attending please contact Jen, or visit the page for this event at upcoming.org and click "I'm attending".
Agenda:
6:00pm - Doors open, networking
6:15pm - Announcements and door prizes
6:30pm - Dinner is served!
Labels: meetings
