CloudCamp

CloudCamp Regional Organizers

dnielsen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:30:57 +0000

2010 has been a wonderful year for CloudCamp and I’m very happy to have played an important role in bringing the unconference format to so many cities. Of course I’m not alone in this effort, Reuven has been a force of nature in spreading the word; the UK organizers (Chris Purrington, Alexis Richardson, Christine Gupta, Phil Huber, Simon Wardley and many others) have done a great job in London and beyond; Tom Leyden in Europe; Samuel Yeats & George Reese in ANZ and Sam Charrington, John Willis & Jesse Silver in the US. But as the central organizer & facilitator for most of the rest of the world, it has taken a significant amount of my time and effort.

Fortunately, as a developer community consultant, I have some flexibility in my hours and even get consulting leads through my CloudCamp efforts. But the amount of work to organize so many CloudCamps has become overwhelming. I’m just not able to keep up with all of you. And for CloudCamp to scale, something has got to be done.

So I began talking with a organizers about distributing the load. From the first CloudCamp in Belgium, Tom Leyden has been acting on my behalf on the Continent of Europe, and others have volunteered to do the same in their part of the world. In particular Prem Sanker in India, Alex Ng in Singapore, and more recently Ben Kepes in New Zealand and Yosu Cadilla in Spain. I’m sure there are others who would like to help if they just knew how.

So with that in mind, I’d like to announce a new Regional Organizers program. Tom Leyden, Prem Sanker, Alex Ng, Ben Kepes & Yosu Cadilla are now official CloudCamp Regional Organizers and will be taking over my role as central organizers in their regions. Of course I will still be involved and hope to continue facilitating CloudCamps, but these trusted regional organizers will be empowered to do most of what I normally would do. In the long run, I hope that each of these regions can act on their own, just as the UK region has done since the beginning.

As for my role, I’m not going anywhere. I will be working with these organizers on a weekly basis to coordinate our activities. And I will continue working to bring CloudCamp to more regions and conferences throughout the world and online.

So please join me and the rest of CloudCamp in welcoming Tom, Prem, Alex, Ben and Yosu as they join UK team as CloudCamp Regional Organizers.

CloudCamp London #4 Write-ups

dnielsen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:59:39 +0000

It looks like a lot of interest was generated from CloudCamp London #4 on July 9th. In addition to the many tweets on Twitter, here are the 3 write-ups I found:

Thank you to Gojko Adzic, Simon Gallagher & ‘Nooper’ for there write-ups and even recommending others attend CloudCamps around the world. And congratulations organizers Chris, Alexis, Simon and any others who helped put on CloudCamp London #4.

If you missed CloudCamp London, you might try for North-East-England on the 29th, or Scotland and Dublin coming up later this Summer.

Write-up of CloudCamp PDX (Portland)

dnielsen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:22:20 +0000

Amber Case of Hazelnut Consulting wrote up a nearly complete summary of CloudCampPDX (Portland). She does a great job of capturing the play-by-play. Take a look!

Welcome to CloudCamp WHD

dnielsen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:14:37 +0000

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

Our first CloudCamp at WHD is Saturday, March 19th in Cologne, Germany

If you are interested in sponsoring or submitting a proposal for a Lightning Talk, send an email to tom.leyden AT sun DOT com.

Program

10.00 am Welcome
10.05 am Keynote (Kristof De Spiegeleer, Cloud Visionary and Director Cloud Architecture - Sun Microsystems)

10.45 am Coffee Break

11.30 am Panel (Tony Lucas, Robert Rosier, Matt Rechenburg, Jari Koister, Michael Crandell )
12.30 am Lightning Talks (Itricity, Flexiscale, OpenQRM, Aicache, Amazon)

1.00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Hosting in the Cloud (Unconference moderated by Arvid Fossen & Duncan Malcolm)
2:25 pm Public vs. Private Clouds (Unconference moderated by Tom Leyden)
2:50 pm Metering in the Cloud (Unconference moderated by William Louth)
3:15 pm Cloud Computing and Open Source ( Unconference moderated by Matt Rechenburg)

3:40 pm Use case “Build Your Own Cloud” + Terremark Cloud live demo (Kurt Glazemakers)

4.00 pm Coffee Break

4.45 pm Lightning Talks (Rightscale, CloudAngels, Jinspired, Groupswim)
5.15 pm Complex application hosting in the cloud made simple (Unconference moderated by Max Robbins)
5.45 pm Closing presentation (Martin Buhr - Amazon)

6.30 pm ConneXion Party

Local Organizers:
- Tom Leyden

CloudCamp Indianapolis Postponed

dnielsen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:23:57 +0000

We were hoping for clouds and got snow instead. Indianapolis CloudCamp has been postponed to Wednesday, February 4th - Same Time - Same Place. Hope to see you then.

Let’s Mix in San Jose during CloudComputingExpo

dnielsen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:22:46 +0000

Since so many of us will be in San Jose for CloudComputingExpo, we need a place to meet. We don’t have enough hours to put on a formal unconference, but getting together and letting unconference-type discussions happen seems like a good enough reason to meet. Wed is the best evening as the conference sessions end at 7:30pm. Gordon Biersch is just around the corner from the Fairmont Hotel and they’ll give us our own (shared) room. Mosso, RighScale & Sun have stepped up and offered to provide drinks for everyone.

So let us know if you can make it. Hope to see you there!

CloudCamp Silicon Valley set for Sept 30th

dnielsen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:41:45 +0000

After hosting our first CloudCamp in San Francisco, and then taking it to London, we are excited to bring CloudCamp back to the Bay Area. Tuesday, Sept 30th, we will be hosting CloudCamp at Sun’s Executive Briefing Center in Menlo Park. You can register for CloudCamp Silicon Valley ‘08 here.

We are also happy to partner with SDForum’s Cloud Computing conference which takes place the following day in Santa Clara.

CloudCamp SF Tonite!

dnielsen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:21:10 +0000

CloudCamp SF starts tonite at 5 pm. We’ll have food, drink and hopefully some lively discussions about the emerging Cloud Computing industry. I’ll be MC’ing the evening, but since this is an unconference, the really interesting stuff will happen in the sessions, which the attendees will lead themselves.

After the sessions, we’re throwing a party, during which we’ll have Lightning Talks on subjects loosely related to Cloud Computing from the likes of Jeff Barr and others.

With over 300 people registered on Upcoming, I don’t think I missed anyone. But if I did, please excuse me and show up anyway!