Réunion de l'OpenCoffee de Sophia le jeudi 19 novembre de 18 à 21h00, aux Terrasses d'Antipolis, 300 route des Crêtes.

La deuxième édition du BarCampSophiaAntipolis se tiendra le jeudi 5 novembre à l’Agora Einstein - Sophia Antipolis, de 16h30 à minuit. Les participants ont opté pour le thème du Ecommerce. L’OpenCoffee Club Sophia sera partenaire de cet événement majeur des nouvelles technologies de la Côte d’Azur, a tel point qu’il aura lieu au sein même du Barcamp spécialement à cette occasion.

Le thème du Ecommerce, présenté aujourd’hui comme le nouvel eldorado des commerçants, sera débattu sous plusieurs angles de réflexions, aussi bien techniques que commerciaux. Il y a d’ailleurs déjà plusieurs sujets très pragmatiques proposés par les futurs participants :

• Le Ecommerce est-il toujours un eldorado ou une affaire de professionnels ?
• Quelle solution pour se lancer dans la vente en ligne ?
• Les différentes méthodes de communication et leurs retombées en terme d’audience.
• La place du mobile dans le Ecommerce de demain.
• Les outils communautaires : Facebook, Twitter, …
• Les moyens de paiement et la difficulté de convaincre les banques.

L’entrée est gratuite, mais l’inscription est obligatoire afin de faciliter l’organisation de cet événement. Pour ce faire, il suffit simplement de se rendre sur le wiki et d’éditer la page pour rajouter son nom. Il est également possible de contacter Sandra Bayer par email (à sbayer@cari.fr) si vous rencontrez des difficultés pour vous enregistrer.

Vous pouvez commencer à discuter avec les autres participants ou suivre le déroulement du BarCampSophiaAntipolis grâce aux sites suivants :

• Groupe Facebook (plus de 120 membres)
• Groupe Google (pour les propositions de thèmes)
• Twitter (pour être tenu au courant de tout)

Pablo, can you introduce yourself?

I am a 23-year old spanish entrepreneur, aerospace engineer and programmer. In the past I managed two start-ups for e-learning and helicopter drones. Today, I'm a passionate Ruby on Rails programmer working full-time for Teambox.

The DEMO conference announced today that they will award an advertising package valued at one million dollars to the top enterprise and consumer technologies presenting at DEMOfall this coming September. The media package will consist of a six-month advertising campaign running from October 2009 through March 2010. 

Find out more at http://www.demo.com/press/pr070209.html.

Reminder: Deadline to apply for the launch or AlphaPitch programs at DEMOfall is July 30. Companies interested in participating in DEMOfall should visit http://www.demo.com to get application information. DEMOfall will take place September 21-23 in San Diego, CA. Register at http://www.demo.com/pitch/applypitch.html

 Linux systems administrator: gun for hire

I'm a contract Linux systems administrator with 9 years of experience
working with startup companies. My main areas of expertise are in
scalability, high availability and monitoring. Most recently I've been
working with Songkick.com to put in place a new architecture on which we
launched the new version of their site. Before that, I was with Trutap
where we built a scalable platform for mobile social networking.

I'm looking for new challenges with interesting companies. I tend to add
the most value to companies who have an established website built, and
who are expecting a period of growth - taking an existing site, and
building a systems architecture which is fault-tolerant and scalable; as
well as ensuring development staff have access to a development and
staging environment that closely resembles production.

      * Can one of your servers go down without any interruption to
        service?
      * Can you handle 10x your current load on your existing platform?
      * Do you know how you'd grow your infrastructure to cope with 100x
        your current load?
      * If something goes wrong on your platform, do you know about it
        before your users do?

If your answers to the above are either "no" or "I don't know", then
drop me a line - it's likely that I can help.. - jon@topper.me.uk

 Project Manager for Hire

Profile:                             

PMP and Agile Scrum Master certified Project Manger with experience in technical delivery and business integration, with over 10 years experience working in the consumer digital / Internet / Telco / digital media and financial sector. Proven ability to manage and deliver multiple projects within deadlines and to budget from £1.5 Million at Diageo, up to 2million at Sony). Experience managing geographically dispersed teams in a multi-cultural environment.



Key Skills:                       

Project management on time to budget, account management, digital innovation (second life, collaboration platform), Social Media (making social media work in large corporate), Business Analysis (user stories creation)

cuan.mulligan@konolabs.com

... followed by the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch party in the evening ...

This 30-minute presentation features Angelo Rajadurai, Sr. Technology Evangelist, discussing how flash-based Unified Storage Systems can improve application performance. Sun high-performance storage use a combination of flash drives and conventional hard disk drives to improve LAMP stack performance by 2x, or more. There is a demo of storage analytics application that enables admins to see graphically, and in fine detail what process, application, or user is loading the storage system. Finally, there is a discussion of how the new storage products can provide a tiered solution for cloud-based storage, lowering costs and increasing performance. Sun Startup Essentials members are eligible for significant discounts on Sun storage solutions.

GO and WATCH IT HERE

Have you heard of Project Kenai? 

This is the onramp for Sun's "developer cloud" efforts, which allows you to host your open source projects and code - as well as find and collaborate with developers of like mind and passion.

Anyone can join by going to http://kenai.com.  And if parties are ready to start hosting a project, they simply need to send an invitation request with a description of their project to: kenai-admin@sun.com.  Sun Developer Network members can use their SDN credentials to sign in.

We currently offer an integrated suite of productivity services to host open source projects/code or connect with peers of like mind; features include:

• Source Code Management (Subversion, Mercurial, and Git)
• Issue Tracking (Jira and Bugzilla)
• Wiki
• Forums
• Mailing Lists
• Download facility for documents
• Evolving integration with NetBeans

Here's some useful resources to learn more or stay connected:

• Nuts & Bolts of Kenai.com http://kenai.com/projects/help/pages/KenaiOverview
• NetBeans Connectivity; http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyMilestone3NB67#section-NewAndNoteworthyMilestone3NB67-ConnectedDeveloperIntegrationWithKenai.com
  
• Screencasts:
  
• "Welcome to Project Kenai:" https://slx.sun.com/1179272514
• "Edit your Project Kenai Profile:" https://slx.sun.com/1179272664
• "Manage your Kenai Project:" https://slx.sun.com/1179273752
• Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/projectkenai
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/projectkenai
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38870547853&ref=ts

Stay tuned for some exciting things coming at JavaOne!

 

Improving Storage Performance Webinar

Join us for a Webinar on May 13 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/607873059 Are you a startup seeking extreme performance on the tightest budget?  Does your business require large amounts of storage? Are your trying to provide tiered services? Do you think the cloud is the least expensive -- or only -- storage solution?  We'd like to show you how Sun's newest 7000 line of open storage products can:  ● Provide the lowest cost per GB, and integrate with cloud storage  ● Double (or more) the number of MySQL TPS by integrating SSDs  ● Offer powerful web analytics tools at no additional cost  ● Help you deliver tiered web services  If you think we're overpromising, then you really don't want to miss this free webinar. Title:   Improving Storage Performance Webinar Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM IST After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

If storage performance is keeping you up at night, you don't want to miss this 30-minute presentation featuring Angelo Rajadurai, our Senior Technology Evangelist and rock star.

Angelo's webinar talks about how the new Sun high-performance storage uses a combination of flash drives and conventional hard disk drives to improve LAMP stack performance by 2x, or more. There is a demo of storage analytics application that enables admins to see graphically, and in fine detail what process, application, or user is loading the storage system. Finally, there is a discussion of how the new storage products can provide a tiered solution for cloud-based storage, lowering costs and increasing performance.  Sun Startup Essentials members are eligible for significant discounts on Sun storage solutions.

Watch the webinar.

A little while ago, Scott McNealy gave a fun keynote at the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. He's always entertaining and unorthodox when he gives tips to startup companies in the audience.  Here's a summary:

Tip #1: Come up with a counter-intuitive idea, otherwise, chances are someone else is already running with it (and not being that successful).

Tip #2: Break the rules of business without being unethical as it will help you attract the brightest talent.

Tip #3: Don't be greedy when looking for funding as limited funding will force you to be creative and efficient.

Tip #4: Embrace a cause to motivate your employees as humans are not just coin-operated.

Tip #5: Marry the right person possibly after you launch your startup.

Enjoy the video.  

Controlling costs while being ready to go big. Doubling application performance. Delivering tiered services. Connecting to the cloud, but being smart about it.

These are the things that startups tell us they want to do. So we’ve put together a seminar to show you how to do it.

Join us for an informative, free, 3-hour technical session with Angelo Rajadurai, one of our very talented and knowledgeable Web Scale Architects. He’ll discuss how Sun's new Open Storage products can help you cost-effectively scale your startup and think about storage in new ways. The sessions are a mix of slides, demos, and open discussion.

We’re coming to:

 - Los Angeles - El Segundo, CA - March 9
 - San Francisco - Sunnyvale - March 10
 - Austin, TX - March 12
 - Boston, MA - March 16
 - New York City - March 17

In most places the  seminar runs from 11 am to 2 pm. Light lunch will be served.
Get all the details and Register!

Watch this space soon, as this tour is coming to Europe ....

Heute ist es wieder soweit: DevDusk in Frankfurt! Jede Menge interessante Themen für Entwickler.Schauen Sie mal rein.

Anbei finden Sie meinen Vorträgen

• Java Performance Primer
• Open Source Produkte von Sun Microsystems

Die gezeigten Flashvideos finden in meinem Blog "Java Performance Primer".

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