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Our first ‘Hash Table’ event is coming up on November 18,2009 and our topic is ‘The Cloud’. As a quick reminder, Hash Table is our special meeting type where we pick a controversial or interesting topic in software development and meet at a local restaurant or bar and “hash it out.” The goal is not to come to a final answer, but to learn from each other’s expertise.

I would try and say a little bit more about our topic “The Cloud” and cloud computing, but it’s ambiguity is one of reasons it is our topic. There are a number of angles to discuss and I have listed a few below. The meeting will probably go best if we have at least a few people pick a aspect of the topic and read up on it a little more and give us their opinion at the meeting.

Potential Topics:

• What defines cloud computer
• Reliability
• Cost
• Security
• Privacy
• Desktop application replacement
• Portability/vendor-lock-in
• Usability (for user applications)
• Ease of use (from system admin perspective)
• Real world scalability

If you have any good links, other topic ideas or would like to volunteer to summarize one of them for the group, please post in the comments.

Finally, please sign up and RSVP on the Meetup group to help us plan properly plan for the event.

UPDATE: Location Confirmed: Jazmine Cafe

P.S. This is not a sponsored event and is instead of our normal meeting.

Our October meeting is on the twenty-first at Launch Pad as usual.

We are going to modify the meetup format based on some feedback from the last meeting. The first fifteen minutes will be the usual food and announcements. The presentation will then start promptly at 6:15 and last, at most, thirty minutes with the following fifteen minutes reserved for discussion on the presentation’s topic. (More on that in a moment.) That should have the formal part of the meeting wrapped up at 7:00 PM. We still have LP until 8:00 PM, so we are going to officially adjourn, but leave the space open to informal socializing, continued refreshments, flamewars…I mean debates of technical merit. This extra time will also be used for service projects for those interested.

Our topic for the meeting is jQuery by our very own Matt Tritico. In addition to his presentation, we want to hear from you and how you use jQuery. If you have some sample code or a project that uses jQuery please share it with us. Also, if you are new to jQuery or JavaScript please come with lots of questions about why and how you would use jQuery.