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Facebook Haggadah on Joyent

We’re pleased that the Facebook Haggadah is running on a free Joyent Accelerator as part of our program for social network developers. The Haggadah is the telling of the events of Passover and the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt as described in the book of Exodus of the Torah. The Haggadah itself is a religious text to be used during the Seder supper to fulfill the scriptural commandment “to tell your son” about Jewish liberation.

I don’t know if the Facebook Haggadah fulfills the scriptural commandment. Those that work with me at Joyent might be able to guess my response, but I won’t hazard an opinion on this blog.

Nevertheless, happy Passover to all. Follow the Facebook Haggadah.

Final Schedule for Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar

We have finalized the schedule for Monday’s Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar.

If you are in the BayArea, please join us for what will be an extremely interesting and useful event. You can sign up here

Seminar Schedule:

5:30PM – Enterprise Class Cloud Computing

Presentation by Dr. Jason Hoffman, Joyent Co-founder and CTO

Separating the hype from the reality of how successful enterprise class applications are deployed on the Cloud, this talk will discuss the following issues: Security, Operations, Migration, The promise of infinite scale, the reality of how to scale, appropriate use cases, private clouds and VPN connections to legacy infrastrctures, SLAs, achieving high availability and predicting total cost of ownership.

6:15PM – Delivering an Integrated IDE Product using Cloud as a Service

Presentation by Aptana

6:40PM – Refreshments

7:00PM – Tactics and Execution – Real World Experience on the Cloud

Moderated by Ken Langley, Senior Director of Scale Consulting, Joyent

Participants

Mark Lay, Director of Technology, AKQA

Mark Lay is responsible for technical delivery for all AKQA San Francisco’s clients. A recognized pioneer, AKQA is an independent agency with 700 employees and offices throughout the USA, Europe and Asia. An ideas-led agency, AKQA works in partnership with brand leaders to deliver innovation. AKQA has received Agency of the Year honors from Advertising Age, Adweek and SHOOT Magazines in 2008 and was included in Advertising Age’s 2008 “A-List” as well as Fast Company’s Fast 50, featuring the world’s 50 most innovative companies. AKQA’s clients include Nike, Visa, Xbox, Coca-Cola and Target, among others. For more information about AKQA, visit www.akqa.com.

Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering, Context Optional

Rafi Jacoby oversees development and operations for Context Optional, the leading provider of scalable solutions for brand marketing across social networks. Context Optional offers a full suite of social marketing services including social media ad buys and optimization, licensed branded applications, brand page management and promotion, and custom viral application development. Context has delivered measurable marketing results for many of the world’s leading brands, including Microsoft, EA, Timberland, Ford, Samsung, Bank of America, and Viacom. Recent projects include Travel Channel’s Kidnap!, a top 10 game on Facebook with over 3 million users.

Frank Anan, Founding Partner, SolutionSet

Frank currently serves as a founding partner of SolutionSet and manages San Francisco operations. Launched in 2003, SolutionSet combines industry-leading technology with user-centered creative to deliver the latest approaches in web development, digital marketing and brand experience. SolutionSet stage the convergence of brand and technology which allows them to view each client challenge with a bigger picture in mind and offer strategic solutions based on that visibility. SolutionSet has a proven track record for delivering to clients like Chevron, EBay, Tivo, Verisign, Cisco, Autodesk, and Kodak. SolutionSet is a Webby Award recipient and is number 23 on the Inc Magazine Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies overall list and number 2 in the IT Services category.

7:45PM – The Future of Cloud Computing for the Enterprise

Moderated by Jason Hoffman

Participants:

Geva Perry – General Manager, Cloud Computing, GigaSpaces

GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of a scale-out application server for Java, .Net and C++. The GigaSpaces eXtrema Application Platform provides applications with scalability, reliability and high-performance in distributed environments, such as SOA, clusters, grids and cloud computing. GigaSpaces’ customers include some of the world’s largest corporation in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and the Internet. GigaSpaces was founded in 2000 and has offices worldwide.

Benjamin Black – VP, Research, Joyent

Ben is currently part of Joyent’s Cloud Development team, working on next-generation solutions to issues of scalability, monitoring, metrics and security. Prior to joining Joyent, Ben held senior technical roles at Amazon, Microsoft and Internap.

Sunil Potti – VP of Product Development, f5

Sunil leads the Product Development forthe Acceleration and Virtualization Group at F5 Networks. Sunil brings many years of experience in delivering enterprise applications and next generation application infrastructure technologies to the market. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering F5’s application acceleration products including WAN optimization and web acceleration solutions. Prior to F5, Sunil was Director of Engineering at Cisco Systems where he led the Application Oriented Networking product group. He has also held positions at Synchrony and Sybase

Jamie Lerner – President & CEO, CITTIO

Jamie Lerner, CITTIO’s President and CEO, has over fifteen years of experience in software development and high growth company management. In 2001, Lerner founded CITTIO to address the need for cost-effective, easy-to-use, enterprise management software that he found was not available in the industry. CITTIO provides automated network and systems monitoring software for today’s modern datacenters and complex, ever changing networks. With automated network monitoring, systems monitoring, application monitoring and edge device support – CITTIO delivers “single pane of glass” visibility into your IT infrastructure performance and availability so your team can be proactive and focus on the business, instead of maintaining its monitoring software.

You can sign up here for the Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar

Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar

Join us on evening of Nov. 17th for a free Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar .

The seminar will include participation and presentations for SolutionSet, Aptana , and a series of other companies who have had experience deploying on the cloud.

We are going to address the practical questions of enterprise CTOs and CIOs

CTOs and CIOs realize the potential benefits of Cloud Computing, but they also have reasonable questions about the following:

• How to achieve enterprise class security on the Cloud?
• What are the operational issues and best practices associated with running applications on the Cloud?
• How do you scale an application on the Cloud?
• What are the appropriate enterprise use cases for Cloud Computing?
• How do you build and deploy a highly available application on the Cloud?
• What do Cloud SLAs mean to enterprise users?
• What are the total costs of running an application on the Cloud?

The event will begin at 5:30pm and go until 8:00pm, with an opportunity to socialize and network from 8:00pm until 9:00pm.

We are holding the event at Sun’s Menlo Park campus
15 Network Circle Building 15
Menlo Park, CA 94025

You can register at http://enterprisecloudcomputing.eventbrite.com/

Joyent Pint Night (at RailsConf2008)

We are hosting a pub night on Thursday (5/29) at the Lucky Lab.

Come on by anytime between 6pm-8pm if you need to wet your whistle.

And if you sweet talk David or Jason, they might just do it again on Friday. And Saturday.

Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

Taco Tuesday (San Francisco, CA): May 27, 2008 – CANCELLED. Sorry, look for us in June.

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

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Google I/O (San Francisco, CA): May 28-29, 2008

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

UPDATE: Jason Hoffman will be speaking on the ‘Building an OpenSocial Application in the cloud” that happens Thursday, May 29th at 10:15am.
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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 we will also be sharing booth space with our buddies over at Sun, so stop by on one of the breaks and say hello. You know there will be some ‘mixers’ as well. More information to follow shortly.

UPDATE: We are hosting a pub night on Thursday (5/29) at the Lucky Lab. Come on by between 6pm-8pm if you need to wet your whistle.

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Social Media Business School (Los Angeles, CA): June 5, 2008

Rod will be leading as session on Application Hosting Options where folks will learn about the options and economics associated with running your apps in-house versus outsourcing.

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Enterprise 2.0 (Boston, MA): June 9-12, 2008

Rod will be Breaking Down Cloud Computing and Its Relationship to Enterprise 2.0 on Wednesday, June 11th at 2:15pm.

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

We might be making a showing here, will add more information once available.

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Social Media Business School (New York, NY): June 25, 2008

Making sure Rod keeps busy, so we have scheduled him to lead another session on Application Hosting Options where folks will learn about the options and economics associated with running your apps in-house versus outsourcing.

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

Blake Burris, David Young and Kristie Wells will be on hand to watch Jason Hoffman participate in a panel around Cloud Computing: Infrastructure for Entrepreneurs. It starts at 9:20am so make sure you get to the conference early if you like to hear the Hof speak.

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Joyent Developer Days (San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City): Dates TBD in July and August

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.

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

Look for Blake Burris roaming the halls…

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.

Click here to take survey

*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.

Click here to take survey

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…