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Joyent Developer Days: Proposed Cities

We are working on a series of one-day developer events to be held around the U.S. (to start*), that will include seminars and plenty of opportunities to hack on a few things.

The day itself will vary in format from location to location, but the goal is the same: bring the Joyent developer community closer together, provide the tools you need to build a successful web application and meet some fun people in the process.

We’ll be posting more details on the sessions as we finalize them, right now, we are curious as to what cities YOU feel we should absolutely visit. I have a list of 16 cities on our white board right now, I would like to bring that number down to 5 for the launch.

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*Once the first five cities are under our belt, we will look at expanding the U.S. list based on your replies, and hopefully hopping the pond to visit our European friends as well as those down under.

UPDATE: 5/6/08

The five cities, leading by a mile, are: San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Austin.

I am going to leave the poll open through Friday, May 9th at 5pm PST and will post the results next Monday with proposed dates. If your city is not one of the five listed, vote now.

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Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

Startup Camp (San Francisco, CA): May 4-5, 2008

While David, Peter, Rod and Blake are all up North killing themselves at (I mean participating in) a mini triathalon, Kristie Wells plans on roaming the hallways of Startup Camp and seeing what havoc she/I can create by trying to talk technical to a bunch of developers. Kidding. I promise not to talk technical to you guys.

More importantly, Jason will be leading a session called Building Your Company In The Cloud: Real Facts that starts on Sunday, May 4th at 1:50pm.

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CommunityOne (San Francisco, CA): May 5, 2008

Sun has graciously offered us an area in Hall A to pitch a tent and hold a mini bootcamp of our own. Kristie Wells, Jason Hoffman, Rod Boothby and Blake Burris will all be on hand, leading fireside chats as well as sessions on ‘How to Scale’ between 11am to 4pm. We will also have a video camera on hand and interested in hearing your thoughts on ‘How to Scale’, which will be part II in a series we are launching in this blog shortly (part I was ‘What is Cloud Computing we did last week at Web 2.0 Expo).

Make sure you register and put ‘joyent’ as the referral code on page two of the registration form. Doing so will get you lunch, entry into Sun’s cocktail reception that starts at 6pm (free beer) and will also get you a free pass into day one of JavaOne Pavilion and General Sessions.

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San Francisco Mini Meetup (San Francisco, CA): May 6, 2008

A couple Joyeurs are in town for the CommunityOne and JavaOne conference, so several of us are getting together to chow on some tacos and throw back a few pints. If you are interested in joining us, please leave a comment here and we will send you details once this has been locked down.

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Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA): May 27, 2008

Tacos. Beer. Good conversation. Need we say more?

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Google I/O (Mountain View, CA): May 28-29, 2008

Keep an eye out for Blake Burris, Rod Boothby and Kristie Wells.

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RailsConf (Portland, OR): May 29-June 1, 2008

Several of the team members will be floating through the halls of the Oregon Convention Center…and you know there will be the daily ‘mixers’ as well. More information to follow shortly.

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Velocity (Burlingame, CA): June 23-24, 2008

We plan to make a showing here, will add more information once available.

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Structure 08 (San Francisco, CA): June 25, 2008

Jason Hoffman will be leading a session on Cloud Computing, Rod Boothby and Kristie Wells will be be on hand to hold the Hof’s Superman cape.

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LoneStar Ruby Conference (Austin, TX): September 4-6, 2008

Look for Blake Burris roaming the halls…

Meet us at the Blogtropol.us

Rod Boothby and I will be hanging out in the Blogtropol.us Bloggers Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 23rd (tomorrow) and Friday, April 25th.

We’ll have video camera in hand and would love to hear some of your success stories launching your applications and/or websites on Joyent, and might even have a secret surprise or two if you find us early.

To get into Blogtropol.us, you will need a Web 2.0 Expo pass (try to get one for free by using code websf08opw). You then need to register for Blogtropol.us (which is FREE and there will be a daily happy hour you won’t want to miss too)

Enlace de Suramérica con las Hackathons OpenSocial

Joyent se ha aliado con Google, MySpace, hi5, Vostu, Sonico, Globant, Mentez y Adobe para el Tour Latinoamérica de OpenSocial para ayudar a los desarrolladores a iniciarse con OpenSocial y explicar el potencial de OpenSocial a los mercaderistas en Argentina y Brasil.

Los eventos listados a continuación son de gratuita asistencia y consistirán en hackathons, competencias de desarolladores y eventos corporativos que toman lugar desde Abril 28 hasta Mayo 10.

Argentina

Jason Hoffman se dirige hacia Argentina para las charlas técnicas que serán dadas en diferentes universidades y estará hablando sobre ‘Cloud Computing’ el Viernes 2 de Mayo a las 4:30pm [ver abajo].

Agenda:

• Lunes Abril 28 de 5pm a 7pm: Charla Técnica en UNICEN, Tandil
• Martes Abril 29 de 7pm a 10pm: Redes Sociales para Mercaderistas, Bahrein (Lavalle 345)
• Miércoles Abril 30 de 5pm a 7pm: Charla Técnica en ITBA
• Miércoles Abril 30 de 7:30pm a 9:30pm: Charla Técnica en UTN
• Viernes Mayo 2 de 1pm a 3pm: Charla Técnica en UADE
• Viernes Mayo 2 de 4:30pm a 6:30pm: Charla Técnica de Joyent, Cloud Computing UCEMA*
• Viernes Mayo 2 de 7pm a 9pm: Charla Técnica en UBA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
• Sábado Mayo 3 de 9am a 6pm: Hackathon OpenSocial, Parque Técnico Globant (Costa Salguero)

Más información y registro

Brasil

David Young estará para los talleres y seminarios que tomarán lugar del 5 al 11 de Mayo en Porto Alegre, Campinhas y Sao Paulo. Estos talleres están enfocados en ayudar a los desarrolladores a crear aplicaciones e integrarlas con Orkut, Sonico, MySpace, Vostu y otras redes sociales usando la plataforma OpenSocial.

Agenda:

• Mayo 5 App Camp en Porto Alegre (en la tarde): Campus Universitario
• Mayo 6 App Camp en Campinhas (en la tarde): Campus Universitario
• Mayo 7 App Camp en Sao Paulo (en la tarde): Campus Universitario
• Mayo 8, de 4pm a 8pm: Cumbre de la Red Social, Hotel Sonesta Ibirapuera (Sao Paulo)

Más información y registro disponible en el website de Mentez

Para tener una idea del ambiente en Hackathons OpenSocial anteriores, puedes ver este video hecho por Clive Boulton de Silicon Valley Web Builders.

Jason y David estarán disponibles para cocteles locales, quiero decir encuentros locales, así que si estás interesado en salir con ellos por favor deja un comentario aquí y estarán en contacto contigo para más detalles.

Gracias a Andrés Rodríguez por la traducción al español.

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IN ENGLISH:

South America bound with OpenSocial Hackathons

Joyent has partnered with Google, MySpace, hi5, Vostu, Sonico, Globant, Mentez, and Adobe for the OpenSocial Latin America Tour to help developers get started with OpenSocial, and to explain the potential of OpenSocial to Marketers in Argentina and Brazil.

The events listed below are free to attend and will consist of hackathons, developer contests and corporate events taking place from April 28th to May 10th.

Argentina

Jason Hoffman is headed to Argentina for the Tech Talks to be held at different universities and will be speaking on ‘Cloud Computing’ Friday, May 2nd at 4:30 [see below].

Schedule:

• Monday, April 28th from 5pm to 7pm: Tech Talk in UNICEN, Tandil.
• Tuesday, April 29th from 7pm to 10pm: Social Networks for Marketers, Bahrein (Lavalle 345)
• Wednesday, April 30th, from 5pm to 7pm: Tech Talk in ITBA
• Wednesday, April 30th, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm: Tech Talk in UTN
• Friday, May 2nd, from 1pm to 3pm: Tech Talk in UADE
• Friday, May 2nd, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm: Joyent Tech Talk, Cloud Computing UCEMA
• Friday, May 2nd, from 7pm to 9pm: Tech Talk in UBA, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
• Saturday, May 3rd, from 9am to 6pm: OpenSocial Hackathon, Globant Tech Park (Costa Salguero)

More information and registration

Brazil

David Young will be on hand for the workshops and seminars taking place May 5-11 in Porto Alegre, Campinhas, and Sao Paulo. These workshops are focusing on helping developers create the applications, and integrate them with Orkut, Sonico, Myspace, Vostu and other social networks using the OpenSocial Platform.

Schedule:

• May 5th App Camp in Porto Alegre (afternoon): University Campus
• May 6th App Camp in Campinhas (afternoon): University Campus
• May 7th App Camp in Sao Paulo (afternoon): University Campus
• May 8th, from 4pm to 8pm: Social Network Summit, Hotel Sonesta Ibirapuera (Sao Paulo)

More information and registration is available on Mentez’s website.

To get an idea of the environment at previous OpenSocial Hackathons, you can check out this video done by Clive Boulton from Silicon Valley Web Builders.

Both Jason and David are up for local drinks ups, I mean meet ups, so if you are interested in hanging out with these fellas, please leave a comment here and they will be in touch with details.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

Cloud Computing DEMO Camp (Palo Alto, CA): March 25, 2008

Rod Boothby and Jason Hoffman will be leading a session on developing in the Cloud.

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Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA): March 26, 2008

Tacos, beer and us. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Well, if you like those things, that is.

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MySQL Conference (Santa Clara, CA): April 14-17, 2008

Ben Rockwood will tell you everything you wanted to know about DTrace and MySQL on Thursday, April 17th at 11:55am.

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Open Web Vancouver 2008 (Vancouver, BC): April 14-15, 2008

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SV WebBuilder Ruby Conference (San Jose, CA): April 18-19, 2008

Jason Hoffman will be leading a session here.

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RailsConf (Portland, OR): May 29-June 1, 2008

Several of the team members will be floating through the halls of the Oregon Convention Center…and you know there will be the daily ‘mixers’ as well. More information to follow shortly.

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Google I/O (Mountain View, CA): June 1, 2008

Rumor is some of the Joyent folk will be on hand.

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Velocity (Burlingame, CA): June 23-24, 2008

We plan to make a showing here, will add more information once available.

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Structure 08 (San Francisco, CA): June 25, 2008

Jason Hoffman will be leading a session on Cloud Computing

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LoneStar Ruby Conference (Austin, TX): September 4-6, 2008

Look for Blake Burris roaming the halls…

DTrace (un)conference in San Francisco: March 14th

The fine folks over at Sun are putting on a little (un)conference and invite you to join them to share what you’re doing with DTrace: tricks you’ve used, wins you’ve had, limitations you’ve run into, where you’d like to see DTrace go in the future, etc.

Jason Hoffman, Ben Rockwood and several other folks from Joyent will be on hand and we will also make sure the beer is flowing during the happy hour.

If you wish to participate, please register so they can prep the room for your arrival.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

Northern Voice (Vancouver, Canada): February 22-24, 2008

Kristie will be in town to love on her fellow bloggers, and is up for drinks Saturday night (23rd) if anyone is interested. Might even grab Mark Mayo so you get a two-fer. If you are around, shoot an email to kristie [at] joyent [dot] com and we can lock something in.

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SVWebBuilder: OpenSocial Hackathon Episode II (San Jose, CA): February 23, 2008

Jason will be discussing the art of Application & Server Optimization. Be there or be square.

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Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA): February 26, 2008

Tacos, beer and us. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Well, if you like those things, that is.

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BIL Unconference (Monterey, CA): March 1-2, 2008

Kristie will be ‘setting her mind free’, or something like that.

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SxSW Interactive (Austin, TX): March 7-11, 2008

David, Jason, Kristie, Rod, Blake, and Luke will be hanging out and finding ways to spread good cheer throughout the town of Austin.

And make sure you check out these specific events we will absolutely be attending:

• 16bit SXSW Interactive Party on March 8th cohosted by Joyent, Pownce, Rocketboom, ComicVine, Get Satisfaction, Laughing Squid, 30 Boxes and Dogster/Catster

• Geeks Love Bowling on March 9th

• Facebook Developer Garage on March 10, 2008. It is at the killer new Pangea club and there will be a party following that’s sure to be even better than last year. Note: capacity is 400 people.

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DTrace Unconference in San Francisco on March 14, 2008

Jason, Ben, Rod and Kristie will be there and Joyent is sponsoring a little happy hour following the event.

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David and Luke in Boston on March 15, 2008 (possible meetup opportunity)

Sorry, a change in plans has kept David on the West Coast. We will plan another meetup here soon.

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The Business of Web Apps: Where the Web Goes to Work (Mountain View, CA): March 20, 2008

Keep an eye out for Rod, rumor is he will be here.

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MySQL Conference (Santa Clara, CA): April 14-17, 2008

Ben will be leading a session called DTrace and MySQL on Thursday, April 17th at 11:55am.

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RailsConf (Portland, OR): May 29-June 1, 2008

Several of the team members will be floating through the halls of the Oregon Convention Center…and you know there will be the daily ‘mixers’ as well. More information to follow shortly.

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Velocity (Burlingame, CA): June 23-24, 2008

We plan to make a showing here, will add more information once available.

EDITED: Added DTrace Unconference

16bit SxSW Interactive Party

We couldn’t be happier to be one of the sponsors of this shin dig and hope you plan to join us for a pint or two while enjoying performances by 999 Eyes, DJ Invidkllr and DJ V.I.N.cent.

We also want to give a big shout out to Joshua Ellingson for his mad design skills in putting this poster together, which will also be given out during the party (limited supply, so get there early).

The party is sponsored by Joyent, Pownce, Rocketboom, ComicVine, Get Satisfaction, Laughing Squid, 30 Boxes and Dogster / Catster and if you plan on joining us, do us a little favor and let us know at any of these sites so we can plan accordingly: Upcoming, Facebook or Pownce.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

CommunityNext (Sunnyvale, CA)
October 5-6, 2007
David Young will be on hand and leading a session on Friday (at 2pm) on ‘Building great businesses, not great datacenters’. It’s a barn burner folks – be there or be square. Register now.

Graphing Social Patterns (San Jose, CA)
October 7-9, 2007
Kristie Wells will be there on Sunday night and Monday, playing in the Open Faced event (Joyent is a sponsor) with David coming in on Tuesday afternoon to lead a panel on Hosting, Hustling, & Hog-tying Apps. Register now.

Boston Ruby Group (Cambridge, MA)
October 9, 2007
Luke Crawford will be giving a reprise of his packed RailsConf Europe presentation at the Boston Ruby Group meeting next Tuesday at the Harvard Law Library, Langdell South classroom. (Directions) The talk is entitled ‘Creating Hybrid Web and Desktop Applications with Rails and Slingshot’. Read more about it, and see you then!

OpenSolaris Summit (Santa Cruz, CA)
October 13-14, 2007
Catch Ben Rockwood and Jason Hoffman at the first ever Summit. It will be small (100 people). It will be informative. It will change your life (for the better). Register now as last time I checked, there were only 11 spaces left!

Web 2.0 Summit (San Francisco, CA)
October 17, 2007
Jason, Ben and Ian Murdock are joining forces to evangelize OpenSolaris and discuss ‘Why Operating Systems Matter’. The event is sold out, so if you have not purchased a ticket yet, we will try to podcast their session or will post their presentation online after the event.

Sun Startup Camp (New York, NY)
October 22-23, 2007
Sun puts on a great event for startups where you can learn from one another and get a chance to share your experiences while expanding your personal networks. It is free to attend, so if you are in the area – register now! David and Jason plan to be there and I expect will be leading a couple of sessions too.

Joyent New York Meetup (New York, NY)
October 23, 2007
David and Jason would like to educate you about the better bourbons in one of their favorite NYC bars. No tacos. But I would imagine a good time to be had anyway.

SNAP Summit (San Francisco, CA)
October 26, 2007
Mark Mayo will be on hand to lead a sessions around scaling Facebook applications where he will highlight the success of Are You Normal?. This Facebook application scaled to 100k users in 2 weeks using Joyent Accelerators.

Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA)
CANCELED
Sorry, Jason and Dave are traveling – Kristie is battling the flu bug. We need to cancel this gathering, but will be back on track on November 27th.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

RailsConf Europe (Berlin, Germany)
September 17-19, 2007
David Young, Jason Hoffman and Luke Crawford will be roaming the halls, so make sure you grab them and say hello. Jason and Luke are also presenting, so make sure you tune in to their sessions. Note: Luke is filling in for Scott.

Brews in Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
September 17, 2007 (and possibly the 18th and 19th)
Joyent will be hosting a bar night during the RailsConf Europe conference and invite you to join them for a pint (or eight).

TechCrunch 40 (San Francisco, CA)
September 17-18, 2007
Kristie Wells will be hanging out with our partner, Sun, and giving out free Accelerators so make sure you stop by the booth to find out how to get yours.

Intel Developer Forum (San Francisco, CA)
September 18-20, 2007
Ben Rockwood joins our partner Sun, and is ready to tell you why you must embrace OpenSolaris.

Plus de vin S’il vous plait (Paris, France)
September 21, 2007
David Young, Jason Hoffman, Luke Crawford and Dean Allen (yes, THAT Dean Allen) plan to be in the City of Lights for the night.

Taco Tuesdays (San Francisco, CA)
September 25, 2007
Join Jason Hoffman, Kristie Wells and Ben Rockwood for tacos, cervezas and geek talk.

geekSessions (San Francisco, CA)
October 2, 2007
Jason Hoffman has joined the Advisory Board of geekSessions and put together a great panel of experts to discuss “Designing Beyond the Database”.

OpenSolaris Summit (Santa Cruz, CA)
October 13-14, 2007
It’s a given Ben Rockwood will be here and we expect a few more Joyeurs to join along.