Our October meeting will be held on Wednesday October 14th between 5.00PM and 7.00PM MDT and will be online courtesy of Elluminate Live. A link to the meeting will be posted to this blog and sent out to the mailing list on the day.

Our speaker will be Eugene Ciurana (http://eugeneciurana.com/). Eugene Ciurana is an open-source evangelist who specializes in the design and implementation of mission-critical, high-availability large scale systems. As Director of Systems Infrastructure at LeapFrog, he and his team designed and built a 100% SOA and cloud system that enables millions of Internet-ready educational and handheld products and services. As chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the ISD Technology Council, he led the official adoption of Linux and other open-source technologies at Walmart Stores Information Systems Division. He’s also designed high performance systems for major financial institutions and many Fortune 100 companies in the United States and Europe.

Eugene will be talking about Google AppEngine for Java, a platform that provides developers and users with infrastructure that Google itself uses for deploying their massively scalable applications.