Boston Scalability
User Group

Our next meeting is on Wednesday February 24 at 6 p.m.  We will have this meeting at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.  The address is 404 Wyman St. (North Entrance) Waltham, MA 02451.  IBM is in the north suite.  This is the same entrance you would take if you were going in to Novell.

We now have network access in the IBM meeting rooms and I’ll have a short demo prepared for using Redis, an in-memory data structures server.  This will be a round-table discussion meeting so bring your questions, answers and experience to discuss with the group.

We do not yet have regular food sponsorship so please let me know if you know of anyone that can help us out.  In the mean time I’ll say bring a snack to hold you over until we go to Bertucci’s after the meeting.

I placed a book order with O’Reilly so we may have some book raffles next week too.  If they don’t arrive in time for next week’s meeting we’ll have plenty at the March meeting.

Also, don’t forget to sign up for our announcement list if you haven’t already.  At the top of the page click “announcement list” to go to the sign up page.

I look forward to seeing everyone next week at 6 p.m.!

Anthony
anthony at bostonsug dot org

Hello everyone,

I’m sure you’ve noticed we haven’t had a BostonSUG meeting in nearly a year.  In the time that we held meetings from 2008-2009 I received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the speakers we invited to our meetings and the technical ability level of our members.  That said, it’s time to restart our monthly meetings with a slightly different approach.

The meeting that we had the most vocal feedback about was our Scalability Roundtable meeting last March.  The feedback for this meeting was fantastic as far as experiments go.  We had a lot of people in attendance, both familiar and new faces.  Going forward, more of our meetings will be in the roundtable format with more lightning talks and shared experiences led by our members.  We’re still interested in having more speakers come in but those meetings would be less common than in the past.

Starting this month we will resume our monthly meetings on the fourth Wednesday of the month.  That means our next meeting is February 24 at 6 p.m., location TBD.  We still have our IBM Innovation Center meeting location available, though the only problem is that there is no internet connectivity available to user groups that meet there.  We’ve also had success meeting up at Bertucci’s, just a quick drive over 128 from IBM.

Sometimes we may not have a set agenda, like for our original roundtable last March.  However I strongly encourage you to send ideas and suggestions for topics along so we can do any research needed before the meeting.  I also invite any lightning talks you may want to present.  It doesn’t have to be a formal presentation or prepared slides or anything fancy.  If you want to talk about a particular topic for 10-20 minutes please let me know so I can put it on the agenda.

At our meeting on February 24 I will give a lightning talk on Redis, a data structures server implemented in C with client libraries in many popular languages.

Please send any suggestions or feedback to anthony@bostonsug.org.  Keep an eye on our web site bostonsug.org for more announcements.  I will send out more info on our next meeting as soon as I get a confirmed meeting location.  I’ll see everyone on the 24th!

Anthony Chaves