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The Purpose of the Meltdown

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This is the first of what I hope will become a series of meet-ups for Northern based technology pundits, thinkers, visionaries, developers, tinkerers, and new arrivals looking to meet the locals! The purpose of this event is to mingle, chat, demo cool technologies and/or brag about recent cutting edge thinking in your field or specialization.

We meet every 6 to 8 weeks and present ideas, chat about work underway or about to be undertaken and create an arena for people to meet.

Watch this page for updates or join the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32095888353


Meltdown v.3 Redux

By Evan - April 16th, 2009
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Thanks to everyone that came out to the Meltdown this past Tuesday! We had a great Q&A session on Virtualization with Richard Whittaker, who had many great observations from his experiences in virtualizing a data centre. We then continued the conversation at the Roadhouse over a beer.

Thanks again to Outcrop Yukon for providing a comfortable location and drinks and nibbles for the attendees. Many thanks to Jason.

The next Meltdown is scheduled for a Monday in early/mid June so keep your calendar open for the next event!

Meltdown v.3

By Evan - April 9th, 2009
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This is the third MeltDown scheduled to re-occur every 6 to 8 weeks. We avoided a March meet-up because of "March Madness" and gave our busy tech community some time to recover from the end of the Government's fiscal year.

The last event was awesome!! Thanks to all that attended and Outside the Cube for hosting.

MeltDown 3 will be graciously hosted at Outcrop Yukon's offices, details below, where there will be some nibbles and drinks and space to chat in. There is not a lot of power available so bring fully charged devices if you are planning on bringing them.

This time we are going to have an Q&A evening with Richard Whittaker, a Configuration Manager at Northwestel, on a current buzz technology topic: Virtualization.

Richard was a significant player in the very successful migration of Northwestel's significant server infrastructure to VMWare's ESX platform. Their migration reduced power consumption, heat production and physical server counts.
Richard will be available to talk about software concerns, hardware concerns, and any of your other tricky virtual questions. He will also be available after the Q&A session to chat about specific solutions for your business.

The Q&A session will start after 5:15p.

Event Details:
Location: Outcrop Yukon Offices - 207 Black St (the big blue building beside what used to be the Brick)
Time: 5:15pm
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Duration: 1.5hrs - if people have an urge to go longer we will be migrating to the Roadhouse to continue the evening!

For people unfamiliar with this event see this link: http://www.justwerks.com/site-tags/meltdown

Join the Discussion on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32095888353

I have no doubt missed some people so please forward this on to others (e.g. your employees or co-workers) that would be interested.

Please RSVP so we can know the headcount for the evening!

Thanks for your time! Hope to see you shortly!

Meltdown 2 Redux

By Evan - January 16th, 2009
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Thanks to everyone that came out to the Meltdown this past Monday! We had a great presentation on XML Storage by Glen Jolly of Pinnacle Consulting and there were many questions along the way.

Thanks again to Outside the Cube for providing a comfortable location and drinks and nibbles for the attendees. Thanks to Alastair.

The next Meltdown is scheduled for a Monday in early/mid March so keep your calendar open for the next event!

If you have a desire to present and/or host a Meltdown please fire me off an email and we can work out the details.

I have attached a PDF summary of Glen's presentation for your interest.

MeltDown 2

By Evan - January 5th, 2009
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Hello all and Happy 2009!

This is the second MeltDown scheduled to re-occur every 6 to 8 weeks. The last event was awesome!! Thanks to all that attended and Outside the Cube for hosting.

For people unfamiliar with this event see this link: http://www.justwerks.com/site-tags/meltdown

MeltDown 2 will again be hosted at the Outside the Cube offices, details below, where there will be some nibbles and drinks and space to chat in. There is not a lot of power available so bring fully charged devices if you are planning on bringing them.

This time around we will have a short presentation by Glen Jolly of Pinnacle Systems Consulting on the topic of:
XML: It's for more than just configuration files. When should you consider XML storage as an alternative to relational tables?

Glen will start his presentation at 5:15p and will be taking questions after.

Event Details:
Location: Outside the Cube offices - 2nd Floor, Horwoods Mall (right
above the Baked Cafe)
Time: 5pm
Date: January 12th
Duration: 1.5hrs - if people have an urge to go longer we will be migrating to a nearby pub to continue the evening!

Join the Discussion on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32095888353

Technology MeltDown Redux

By Evan - November 4th, 2008
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Last night an eager group of attendees at the MeltDown happily mingled, chatted, and (re)introduced themselves.

The evening was well attended with some awesome exchange of ideas, some possible projects discussed and a mountain of information was gathered. There was some keen interest in keeping events like this rolling and I will be doing my best to make sure this event keeps happening every 6 to 8 weeks. 

There was a keen interest expressed to do a short presentation at the next MeltDown. This is exactly what the MeltDown is about - conversations on technology and all the implications it can have on us, regardless of location.

To all the people that attended: Thanks!!

To the people that could not attend: See you next time!

Special thanks to Outside the Cube for hosting this iteration and providing the snacks and drinks.

Technology MeltDown Meetup

By Evan - October 22nd, 2008
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Come one, come all!

This is the first of what I hope will become a series of meet-ups for Northern based technology pundits, thinkers, visionaries, developers, tinkerers, and new arrivals looking to meet the locals! The purpose of this event is to mingle, chat, demo cool technologies and/or brag about recent cutting edge thinking in your field or specialization.

To make this work we need your presence! The inaugural event will be hosted at the Outside the Cube offices, details below, where there will be wi-fi, some nibbles and drinks and space to chat in. There is not a lot of power available so bring fully charged devices if possible. I have no doubt missed some people so please forward this on to others that fit the above description. Please RSVP via the Upcoming.org link so we can get a rough idea of the numbers. If people have an urge to go longer we will be migrating to a nearby pub to continue the evening!

We are exploring a couple of options for presentations so if you have something that you could talk about for 10 minutes or so then please join the Facebook group and we can work out the details!

Join the Discussion on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32095888353

Hope to see you out!

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