upcoming cloud talk, 3 sep 2009

uuasc (unix users association of southern california) is hosting a talk about how to build custom images for amazon's ec2.  details (copied from the webpage) are below.
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Next Meeting, Thursday Sept. 3rd , 7pm-9pm
Location: Sun Microsystems, El Segundo

Building Custom Linux Images for Amazon EC2

Eric Hammond

IMPORTANT: Please be prompt, as we plan to start at 7 pm SHARP !! The building is locked at 7 pm and anyone who arrives after that time will require a Sun employee to escort them to the meeting. It is also highly probable that those who arrive after 7:30 may not be able to attend the meeting.
This month we will stick our heads back into the clouds, specifically Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, which uses Xen based virtualization to launch web facing servers on-demand.
At the September meeting of UUASC-LA, Eric Hammond, who hosted the EC2 BoF and the EC2 Linux for Beginners lab at SCALE7x, will expand on his recent presentation at OSCON 2009. The talk covers customizing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to create an Ubuntu or Debian machine image to your specs with a process you can modify and reuse as your needs change.
This talk expects that audience members are comfortable running and using a Linux system and have at least a basic familiarity with what Amazon EC2 is. Attendees who have run an instance on EC2 and have an understanding of shell scripting will get the most out of this presentation. Experts in virtual machine building will still pick up pointers for automating the process for EC2.
Eric Hammond is an Internet Startup Technologist who has been involved in the architecture, development, and leadership of a number of successful early stage startups including Citysearch.com, Stamps.com, Rent.com, ThisNext.com, and CampusExplorer.com.

Post meeting activities

Even if you eat pizza, you will still have room for dessert, so dont forget our optional gathering at Coco's restaurant in the Manhattan Beach mall, corner of Sepulveda and Marine Ave, for dinner and chatting. (Drive south of the meeting building down Sepulveda, turn left on Marine, and take an immediate left into the shopping area). The chocolate cream pie is a particular point of interest ;-)

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Directions to Sun Microsystems, El Segundo

A big thank-you to Justin Roth of Sun, for providing us with our meeting place!

222 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 1800, El Segundo, CA 90245
10th floor, to the right of the elevators.
Use the elevators on the west side of the building

This is one of the huge white "Pacific Towers" buildings. The one with
"Oracle" on the top, funnily enough...

From the 105 freeway:
  Take the Sepulveda (aka hwy 1, aka airport) exit, but go SOUTH.
  It's about a kilometre down Sepulveda, on the left.
  Take a left just BEFORE the building, on Grand avenue, and turn
  into "Visitor Parking"

From the 405 freeway:
  Take the exit just south of the 105 (El Segundo Blvd)
  Go west for 2+ miles on El Segundo Blvd.

  Turn right onto Sepulveda Boulevard. Stay in the right lane and take
  another right onto Grand Avenue. Pass the building on the corner
  completely and turn into the second driveway on the right were it says
  "Visitor Parking."

Parking:
Parking in the adjacent structure appears to have cycled back to
non-free, for now.

Here's a map for ya!