Socialize and connect while enjoying food, drinks and a presentation on “Building and Operating Scalable Services With and For Amazon EC2.” You’ll also be able to explore the exciting job opportunities that Amazon Web Services has available for Software Development Engineers, Web Development Engineers, Software Development Managers, Business Intelligence Engineers, and Product Managers. Find out more about AWS http://aws.amazon.com.

Interested in Distributed Databases, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j? Predictive or Realtime analytics? Data/text mining? Join us! Everyone loves use cases. If you would like to present one to the group, send me a note at lynn@lynnbender.com. Lightning talks are welcome too.

Join us for an evening of discussion and beers about Puppet and DevOps. If you are using or want to learn about Puppet, configuration management, DevOps practices, etc, please stop by.

This is a group for people interested in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Canvas, HTML5, CSS3, OpenGL and web-based graphics libraries, as well as the use of these technologies for user interface development, information graphics, maps, storyboards, clipart and similar tools. It's primarily focused towards code developers (especially but not exclusively JavaScript developers) but may evolve over time to cover more general graphics professionals.

This group is a place for developers and tech enthusiasts to learn about NuoDB - a brand new generation of operational database, architected to scale effortlessly on the cloud without compromising SQL compliance or ACID transactions. (www.nuodb.com)

Open to all interested in the Hadoop and its surrounding ecosphere. Let us know what you would like to see! Do you have a presentation that you would like to share? Would your company like to host or sponsor a meetup? Send a note to data@lynnbender.com.

Event announcements for HP Cloud Users and Enthusiasts

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have several sister groups that meet in other cities: New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York", Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo... We will try and have an invited speaker for a short talk. You are more than welcome to volunteer and present your work i …

eCommerce works on many of the same principles as business in general. If you have a product or service that others need and can afford, you are basically in business. The rest is marketing and management.Whether you are in the business of selling online or offering to help other businesses sell online, you may consider using Magento as part of that solution. But Why Magento? How does it compare to other eCommerce platforms? What does it cost? Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source …

This is the Seattle and Pugest Sound Area meetup about the OpenStack project. We are interested in working together to make the OpenStack project a success. Anyone who is interested in using, deploying, or contributing to OpenStack are welcome.  This includes open source hackers, business people who are interested in cloud computing as an IT solution, and DevOps and SysAdmin people. Seattle has two OpenStack oriented companies: there are offices of both Nebula and of HP Cloud Services here.  HP …