{"id":329,"date":"2012-11-05T20:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ale.org\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:17:02","slug":"ale-nwspsu-mtg-730pm-thurs-november-8th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"ALE-NW@SPSU MTG. &#8212; 7:30pm Thurs., November 8th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held<br \/>\nThursday, November 8th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266<br \/>\nof the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.<\/p>\n<p>The feature presentation will be: <font size=\"+2\"><br \/>\nGetting Started with Linux<br \/>\nOn the Amazon Cloud<br \/>\n<\/font>with Orlando Karam<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Amazon Web Services are among the most popular<br \/>\n&#8220;infrastructure-as-a-service&#8221; offerings on the internet;<br \/>\nthey let you easily run Linux (and other OSs) as virtual<br \/>\nmachines on Amazon&#8217;s infrastructure.  In this talk, we<br \/>\nwill give a brief introduction to capability and pricing,<br \/>\nand talk about how to  start VMs from the web or from<br \/>\nscripts with the boto python library.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSpeaker Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Orlando Karam was born in the US but grew up in<br \/>\nMexico. He got hooked up with Unix while a grad student<br \/>\nat Tulane University, and has been running Linux on<br \/>\nservers and laptops for more than 15 years.  He teaches<br \/>\ncomputer science at Southern Polytechnic State University,<br \/>\nand is starting to use AWS for research and development.<\/p>\n<p>=======<br \/>\nFor a campus map and a link to directions please see<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spsu.edu\/visitspsu\/campusmaps\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.spsu.edu\/visitspsu\/campusmaps\/index.htm<\/a><br \/>\nParking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.<br \/>\nBuilding J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east<br \/>\nof the parking deck.<br \/>\n======<br \/>\nALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope<br \/>\nyou will join us!  Also remember that topic suggestions<br \/>\nand presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to<br \/>\n[ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com]<br \/>\n======<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday, November 8th, 2012 at 7:30pm in room J-266 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. The feature presentation will be: Getting Started with Linux On the Amazon Cloud with Orlando Karam Abstract: &#8211; Amazon Web Services are among the most popular &#8220;infrastructure-as-a-service&#8221; offerings on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-northwest","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}