Marc Temkin wrote: > > Eric, > > ... > ... In addition we are interested in getting a speaker on the Sun ZFS > technology. If you know of any available speakers knowledgeable with > ZFS please let me know or pass onto them my contact information. > > > Thanks, > > Marc Temkin > > Vice Chair ACM Chicago > Marc Temkin > > 7410 N. Talman Ave. > Chicago, IL 60645 > 773-274-6544 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================ Meeting Info ====================== > > > > January 9, 2008 Chicago ACM Meeting at Google Chicago > > Reservations: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The meeting is at : 6:30 PM Presentation, 5:30 PM Social Hour. The event is free . Google is located at 20 W. Kinzie , Chicago which is near State and Kinzie . More info is at our website: www.acm.org/chapters/chicago > > ======================================================================= > > Talk 1 Title: An Introduction to Bloom Filters (Jon Trowbridge) > > Abstract: When choosing the best algorithm to solve a problem, we often think in terms of trade-offs. The most familiar trade-off is between storage space and time, but there are more exotic possibilities that can lead to data structures with surprising properties. This talk will discuss Bloom Filters, a probabilistic data structure that efficiently encodes set membership and allows a trade-off between storage space and uncertainty. > > Talk 2 Title: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too) (Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick) > > Abstract: Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences. > > Bios: > > Jon Trowbridge > > Senior Software Engineer > > Google Chicago > > Jon is a software engineer, a long-time advocate for free software, and a member of Google's Open Source Program Office. He is currently working on Google's "Palimpsest Project", an effort to help archive and distribute large scientific datasets. Prior to joining Google, Jon spent four years at Ximian/Novell, where he worked on the GNOME desktop and created Beagle, a desktop search system for Linux. > > Ben Collins-Sussman > > Senior Software Engineer > > Google Chicago > > Ben is a member of Google's Open Source Program Office, working on projects to promote the spread of open source software both inside and outside the company. He is a technical lead for Google Code's open source project hosting service, available at _http://code.google.com_ <http://code.google.com>. > > He helped port Subversion to Google's Bigtable technology, which now runs across numerous machines and serves over 60,000 open source repositories. Prior to Google, Ben spent five years with Collabnet as one of the original designers and founders of the Subversion project. > > He is still active in the Subversion community and is also a co-author of the O'Reilly book "Version Control with Subversion". He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and enjoys speaking with Brian Fitzpatrick at various conferences on topics both serious and irreverent. > > Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google > > Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005 as the first software engineer hired in the Chicago office. Brian leads Google's Chicago engineering efforts and also serves as engineering manager for Google Code and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. > > Prior to joining Google, Brian worked at CollabNet, Apache Software Foundation and Apple Computer. > > Brian has been an active open source contributor for over ten years. > > He became a core Subversion developer in 2000 and was the lead developer of the cvs2svn utility. Brian has written articles and presentations on version control and software development. He co-wrote "Version Control with Subversion" and contributed chapters for "Unix in a Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell." > > Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a major in Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and Ceramics.
Hi Marc -- Sorry for the slow reply. I was on vacation all last week. Have you tried contacting anyone from the system/sales engineering teams in the Chicago Sun offices? Also (this is a long shot) if you haven't already, the zfs-discuss list (copied) might be a good place to look. All the OpenSolaris Community ZFS experts -- including the Sun ZFS engineers -- are subscribers there. Eric _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
