Upcoming AWS Events - Fall 2008

Here are some upcoming events that should be of interest to the AWS community:

Eric Hammond (creator of a number of public EC2 Ubuntu and Debian AMIs) will teach an EC2 Beginners Workshop at Barcamp LA on the 25th and 26th of October (that's this weekend). Update: Eric has provided plenty of additional information on the workshop in the comments.

John Nousis will be hosting an AWS meetup in Greece on the 29th of October. John plans to discuss EC2, SimpleDB, S3, DevPay, RightScale, Ylastic, Jollat, and Bucket Explorer.

RightScale will be running a live webinar on the topic of Auto-Scaling Server Arrays on the 30th of October. The webinar is free but registration is required.

The final stops of the AWS Start-Up Tour will take place in London (November 4th), Amsterdam (November 6th) and Seattle (November 20th).

If you are running or are aware of any other events, let me know and I'll update this post (perhaps I will even use a real calendar at some point). Here are some updates:

On November 1st, AJ McKee is planning to talk about APIs, scaling, AWS, and Gnip at Barcamp Cork.

The November 11th meeting of the New York City Cloud Computing Group will focus on Building, deploying, supporting high availability applications on EC2 and S3. AWS developer Kaavo will demo their IMOD (Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand) system on EC2.

Enjoy!

-- Jeff;

Comments

[Eric Hammond]

I'm getting questions about what day/time I will be presenting at BarCampLA-6 this weekend, so here is more info (which won't answer this question):

BarCamp is an "unconference". Sessions are scheduled on site by the attendees starting Saturday morning. The schedule can also be adjusted a bit as the weekend progresses, so I can't predict in advance when I will be presenting.

The minimun I have planned is a ~1 hour session where I give a super-quick overview of what EC2 is followed by a speedy demo leading participants through signing up for an AWS account, saving keys, setting up Elasticfox, starting an EC2 instance, and maybe installing a web server. I will be doing my best to answer any and all questions about EC2 during the presentation whether they relate to the demo or not.

This workshop can save a new person hours or days of trying to figure out the maze of EC2 options and documentation when getting started.

Depending on how many open session slots are available, I might do another session on more advanced EC2 concepts. Depending on available space at the venue, I may try to set aside a workshop area where I can walk folks through EC2 processes at a more relaxed pace.

I will be available all weekend, when I'm not attending other sessions, to chat about EC2 and to answer most any question folks have about it based on my personal experience and long involvement on the EC2 forum.

If you've never been to a BarCamp, I highly recommend it. Just come and hang out with smart, friendly folks and get exposed to all kinds of interesting ideas and information, some technical and some not. Even better, share your own experience and knowledge and pitch in to help in any way you feel comfortable.

http://barcamp.org/BarCampLA-6
http://barcampla.org/