The February 2010 meeting will be our first Lightning Talk night. The evening will be a handful of appetizer-sized Ignite 5m:00s talks (20 slides x 15 seconds each) on a variety of interesting open source topics.
Topics:
John Whitson - CouchDB
Mike Prasad - Performance Tuning
Tom Flaherty - Principles of Programming Languages - Past Present & Future
Tom Marrs - Landing Your Next Tech Job in 2010
Tim Berglund - Then Our Houses Build Us (Form and Content in Software Development)
Matthew McCullough - Information Alchemy through Better Presentations
Gabe Hamilton - What's new in Dojo 1.4
Garrett Foster - eCommerce Thrills and Spills!
Paul Rayner - Still No Silver Bullet? Thoughts on Design, Complexity and the Architect
Joe McTee - Agile Estimation: The story has a point, but the point is unitless.
Demian Neidetcher - Interviewing Skills
Andy Ennamorato - Complex Event Processing: Queries on Speed
Mark Maslyn - Text Mining Using JBoss Rules
Melinda Hood - The Art of Stress Reduction
Mike Brevoort - SOLR
Time and Location:
Full meeting details, maps and are available at:
http://www.denveropensource.org/map
Meeting Day
Monthly meetings are held the 1st Tuesday of every month.
Agenda
5:30 p.m. - Member & Recruiter Networking & Free Pizza (Sponsored by TekSystems)
6:00 p.m. - 1st set of Ignite Presentations
7:05 p.m. - 2nd set of Ignite Presentations
8:30 p.m. - Tech Discussions at Darcy's Pub (Sponsored by KForce)
Location
All monthly meetings are held at the Microsoft offices in the Denver Tech Center (DTC).
Microsoft
7595 Technology Way
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80237