[socal-piggies] Next meeting: Wed. Feb 22 @ spire.io offices

[Grig Gheorghiu]

It also looks like we have a 2nd presenter in the person of Joshua
Timberman from Opscode, the makers of Chef. I don't know the exact
topic yet, but I can guarantee it will be interesting!

Grig

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Thanks to Danny Greenfeld, we are able to hold our meeting in
> February. Danny invited over Craig Kairsterns and Kenneth Reitz from
> Heroku, part of the Python team there.
>
> Carlo Flores from spire.io offered to host the meeting at their
> offices at 7257 Beverly Blvd #210, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (it's on
> Beverly Blvd, just west of La Brea, between Alta Vista and
> Poinsettia.)
>
> The meeting will be on Wednesday Feb 22 at 7 PM.
>
> We have 1 presenter so far, Craig Kairsterns from Heroku. Here's the
> abstract of his talk:
>
> "In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development
> area. This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to
> manage code and dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to
> the elasticity of the cloud. At Heroku we have a fortunate experience
> to interact with thousands of application developers and see their
> patterns and trends as well as help influence these. We will walk
> through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for the future
> in application development. These trends will make it even easier to
> scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous
> deployment, and improve the ease to onboard other developers into a
> development team. Many of these current and emerging best practices
> will be highlighted on Heroku with live demos, but broadly apply
> outside the Heroku platform."
>
> We are working on getting a second presenter.
>
> Evite will sponsor the food and drinks.
>
> Parking (from Carlo): "parking semi-tricky.  There's plenty of street
> parking on Beverly and south of Oakwood (one block away).  There's
> some gentleman running a parking lot across the street, though often
> times he's not there.  Pretty typical LA parking."
>
> I need to know how many people are going so we can buy appropriate
> amounts of food, so please reply to me personally if you intend to go.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grig