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There will be a special meeting of the RAWSUG on April 5th at 6PM in room 70-1400 in the Golisano building on the RIT campus. Our guest will be Jeff Barr, the chief evangelist for Amazon Web Services. It should be a really great meeting and I encourage anyone who is interested in AWS to attend.

We have the big auditorium room and we are expecting a good crowd. You may want to RSVP on the meetup page (http://www.meetup.com/rawsug/calendar/12752086/). You can also post comments there about particular topics you would like to see covered

The fall meeting of the Rochester Amazon Web Services User's Group is scheduled for Tuesday, November 10th from 6PM-8PM in CR3000 of the Golisano building on the RIT campus.

Current Agenda is:

Intros
Review of Recent AWS announcments:

RDS
VPC
Shared Snapshots

Dave Kavanagh will demo/discuss his SimpleDB Query Tool
Q/A

Pizza and soda will be provided by CloudRight, LLC.

We are now coordinating our meetings via Meetup.com so please visit:

http://www.meetup.com/rawsug/calendar/11741924/

to get more info and to RSVP to the meeting.

Hi -

Since a number of other local groups are using meetup.com to organize and build their communities, we are going to give it a try, too.

Visit us at http://meetup.com/rawsug and get signed up!

Mitch

BTW, I would recommend just signing up at Meetup.com rather than here. I am exploring ways to take the current membership here and sign them up but so far it doesn't look like it's possible. If you are already signed up here, please re-join the Meetup group. Sorry for the inconvenience.

6PM-8PM in room 70-3000 on the RIT campus.

Learn how Amazon Web Services help provide scalability by putting your applications into the cloud.
Free Pizza and T-Shirts!
Chat with developers that use Amazon Web Services to host their entire business operations.
Meet the creators of the Python and Java AWS communication libraries.
For more information see our homepage at http://rawsug.org

More info to follow!

Our friends at CloudRight will once again be providing pizza and drinks for our October meeting. Show up hungry!

Our second meeting this fall will feature Dave Johnson from rPath who will discuss their EC2 management tools. In addition, time permitting Mitch Garnaat will give a short demo of a new video transcoding AMI.
The meeting will be take place on October 21st from 6 to 8pm. The meeting room is on the RIT campus in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences building (70). Room 70-2400 is close to the main stairs, on the 2nd floor. Just walk towards the back of the building and we're the first left in that hallway. Plenty of parking is in J lot, in front of the building.

AMI Lifecycle Management for Amazon EC2

We will be kicking off our new season of RAWSUG meetings in style. Jinesh Varia, a technology evangelist from Amazon Web Services will be joining us for the evening with lots of great information about current AWS activity and some insight about what might be coming down the road. See Jin's abstract below for more info.

The meeting will be held on the RIT campus in room 70-2400 (the IT department's conference room) on 9/23 from 6PM until 8PM. Pizza will be provided by our sponsor, CloudRight. Don't miss out!

The attached map indicates the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (building 70) where the meeting will be held. There is visitor parking in lot J.

Cloud Architectures – Amazon Web Services

On January 31st, we will be holding a meeting and focusing on the Amazon SimpleDB service. This service was revealed to the public in December 2007.

"Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers." - http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb

- Mitch Garnaat and David Kavanagh will discuss the service itself and using it from boto and typica.
- Mitch will discuss a python object persistence layer for SimpleDB.

The Rochester Amazon Web Services Users Group would like to announce our next meeting. It will be on October 18th in the Fletcher Steele Room in the Pittsford Public Library. The meeting will run from 6-8pm. Wireless internet is available, so feel free to bring a laptop and participate with the demos.

The meeting will feature the following;

• David Kavanagh will introduce the Java client library, typica and discuss/demo it's usage with EC2 and SQS.
• Mitch Garnaat will give a brief introduction to the boto Python library for AWS and then demo a boto "mashup" that combines several AWS services into a single, simple to manage interface to EC2 servers.

Mike Culver has written a nice blog entry about rawsug.org, the first AWS User Group to form! Check it out here or on our own news aggregator.