Happy New Year - On the cards for 2011

[Craig Box]

Hi everyone,

Welcome to 2011!

Amazon's developers seem to have taken no time off over the Christmas period, and we have exciting new services in the form of Elastic Beanstalk and Simple E-mail Service to "oooh" and "aaah" over.

Books

Rodica from AWS in the US has very kindly sent me three boxes of Jeff Barr's book "Host Your Web Site In The Cloud", which received rave reviews, including this one from Paul Willis:

Personally I already bought (and read) a copy. It's great introduction for someone starting out but is quite basic and quickly outdated but if you can get some and it encourages someone to come along to the meet-up it would be great. 

I'm thinking that a London meet-up might eat a box (26 copies); does anyone outside the M25 want to co-ordinate distribution if I courier them a box?

London meet-up

Because I don't want to carry three boxes of books across town, I'd like to propose a meet-up at The Crown (map, 2 mins from Southwark tube, or 7 mins from Waterloo) on Wednesday 2 February at 6pm.  All attendees receive a free copy of the book!¹

AWS developer day

Also, Iain Gavin tweets:

Save the day - AWS UK developer day - 17th March. Central London. Looking into tech sessions on Beanstalk, RDS, etc. Event page up soon.  By the way, we have noticed tha the next dev event is on St. Patricks day. We are looking at sourcing some famous Irish products! *cough* 

These events are always good fun, and they do fill up. I encourage everyone who can attend to do so, and will post the link to register when it becomes available.

The video from the last event is available online, including a customer presentation from yours truly. And a small personal note; due to unfortunate circumstances I am myself looking for a new opportunity; should your workplace be hiring, and looking for AWS experience, as well as general technical architecture and leadership skills, I encourage you to check me out and get in touch. </shameless plug>

Regards

Craig

1 | And a free copy of my CV! :)

[dan frost]

Craig,

Thanks for the post. On a related note, I've been slowly tweeting a
few people about setting up a cloud hackday for sometime this year -
maybe around June or July? Some people are already interested, but if
anyone wants to help build momentum that would be great.

How does this sound to anyone?

Cheers,
Dan

On 26 Jan, 15:00, Craig Box <craig....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Welcome to 2011!
>
> Amazon's developers seem to have taken no time off over the Christmas
> period, and we have exciting new services in the form of Elastic

> Beanstalk<http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-elastic-beanstalk.html>and
> Simple
> E-mail Service<http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/01/introducing-the-amazon-simple-emai...>

> to
> "oooh" and "aaah" over.
>

> *Books*

>
> Rodica from AWS in the US has very kindly sent me three boxes of Jeff Barr's
> book "Host Your Web Site In The

> Cloud"<http://www.amazon.com/Host-Your-Web-Site-Cloud/dp/0980576830/>,

> which received rave reviews, including this one from Paul Willis:
>

> *Personally I already bought (and read) a copy. It's great introduction for

>
> > someone starting out but is quite basic and quickly outdated but if you can
> > get some and it encourages someone to come along to the meet-up it would be

> > great. *

>
> I'm thinking that a London meet-up might eat a box (26 copies); does anyone
> outside the M25 want to co-ordinate distribution if I courier them a box?
>

> *London meet-up*

>
> Because I don't want to carry three boxes of books across town, I'd like to

> propose a meet-up at The Crown <http://www.thecrownpubandgrill.com/>
> (map<http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=the+cro...>,
> 2 mins from Southwark tube, or 7 mins from Waterloo) on *Wednesday 2
> February at 6pm*.  All attendees receive a free copy of the book!¹
>
> *AWS developer day*
>
> Also, Iain Gavin
> tweets<http://twitter.com/#!/iaingavin/status/29998067704922114>
> :
>
> *Save the day - AWS UK developer day - 17th March. Central London. Looking

>
> > into tech sessions on Beanstalk, RDS, etc. Event page up soon.  By the way,
> > we have noticed tha the next dev event is on St. Patricks day. We are

> > looking at sourcing some famous Irish products! *cough* *

>
> These events are always good fun, and they do fill up. I encourage everyone
> who can attend to do so, and will post the link to register when it becomes
> available.
>
> The video from the last event is available

> online<http://d17g9b3aaiba8i.cloudfront.net/london/london.html>,

> including a customer presentation from yours truly. And a small personal
> note; due to unfortunate

> circumstances<http://blog.symbian.org/2010/12/17/symbian-foundation-is-completing-i...>I

> am myself looking for a new opportunity; should your workplace be
> hiring,
> and looking for AWS experience, as well as general technical architecture
> and leadership skills, I encourage you to check me

> out<http://uk.linkedin.com/in/crbnz>and get in touch. </shameless

[rodica]

Dan - that's a pretty cool idea. AWS is also tentatively going to be in Central London, putting together developer focused event on March 17th. It would be awesome to organize something along that timeline and take advantage of having some of our team in town :) sound interesting?

-rodica

marketing manager, AWS

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[Paul Willis]

Next Wednesday would be fine for me.

Paul

On 26 Jan 2011, at 15:00, Craig Box <crai...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ross Cooney]

Hi Craig,

I can take a box of books and distribute them at Mondays superMondays event?

I will be in London for Monday and Tuesday 7 th and 8th Feb...anybody interested in meeting up in the evening?

Ross

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On 26 Jan 2011, at 15:00, Craig Box <crai...@gmail.com> wrote:

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