Events

.. Then drop me a line. We are filling the slots for the sponsor pitches and we are looking for spontaneous contributions on your own endeavor in Cloud Computing. Since the public at the Cloud Camp is a wonderful mixed bag, you can bring a super technical essay as well as a speech about the...
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Here we go again. I promised to myself not to get involved again in organizing events or whatever implies putting more than four people together (at Kaukana we are three guys and a sweet girl). So, why, why, in God’s name I am doing this? Why I am organizing* a CloudCamp at distance (1.200km)? Perhaps it has...
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Michelangelo Van Dam, co-founder of PHPBenelux is organizing, together with Microsoft Belgium, a PHP-on-Azure event. I let himself introduce the topic: - Microsoft and PHPBenelux are proud to announce a PHP on Azure event with no one less then Josh Holmes presenting “Leveraging Azure with non-Microsoft Technologies”. Josh will talk about the possibilities of Azure for PHP...
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See Mark Anderson’s predictions on 2010… The CEO of Strategic News Service is oracular again (curious how prescience occurs just before quarter’s end) and is here to enlighten us on our near future. It might be me but I am not impressed: 2010 seems to become a very boring year, all trends he describes are already...
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A bit late but better than never: the pictures of the CloudCamp in Edinburgh of September the 23rd. What I like of Edinburgh is the no-nonsense of the people there and the CloudCamp follows! I have seen interesting things, more on one of next posts. The big news is: wife came to see the CloudCamp!! I claim to...
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CloudCamp Italia (already known as CloudCamp Milan) took finally place. We had to move the planned location: too many people attending in respect of our initial expectations. At the end all 200 subscribtions were sold and we had an attendance of 143 people: not bad. We found a location in the Velodromo’s building of the...
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Here it is… We made it . I will take a 24hrs sabbatical now and organize my thoughts. My wife is helping me packing and preparing gadgets. Thank you wifey, you always stand by me. And… I got the schedule! Read it, prepare your questions, flames and sharpen your favourite blades. We will welcome a very, very,...
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I will run a live video stream during the CloudCamp, you can find it here: http://www.kaukana.be/cloudcamp/live I use Wowza media server on amazon EC2 which is a very performing alternative to Adobe at a fraction of the price. This is a perfect example on how the Computing on Demand model pays off: I just activate my Wowza...
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It takes some time.. …To put together a list of interesting interventions for the Lightning Talks of the CloudCamp. The effort Francesco Sacco of EntER and I have done, is  something I could define “very good”. We tried to cover multiple aspects of Cloud Computing, bring together different perspectives and induce the public to debate. Here are...
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Tomorrow I will be at CloudStorm: the event that friend Arvid Fossen of A-Server is organizing. It seems it will be a pretty busy session: around 200 participants. What I am waiting is hte official presentation of CloudSphere, the Cloud endeavour of the WDC (Wallonie Data Center), a very well connected secured location that is strategically...
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