Folks,
Our next monthly meeting will take place at its usual time and place: Wednesday, October 8th at Matrix office (you can find directions on our web site: http://www.iasahome.org/web/atlanta). The meeting will start at 6:30, pizza and drinks will be provided, so RSVP, please.
Also, at Design Patterns panel, several people have expressed desire to hold another panel on “How to hire right people”. I would like to see how much interest is still there in this topic. If you are interested in it or are passionate enough to serve as a panelist, please, let me know.
Also, I would like to remind you that ITARC 2009 is tentatively scheduled for February 2009, and fairly soon we will send a call for papers, so if you are thinking to present something there or know someone who might have a great presentation for this summit, please, let me know as well.
Our guest speaker in October will be Murray Gordon from Microsoft. Here is his short bio:
Murray Gordon is the Microsoft’s ISV Architect Evangelist (AE) for the Greater Southeast District.
He was previously the Director of Technology at Cambar Software in Charleston, South Carolina, an ISV to the supply chain and distribution industry. Murray has been deeply involved in Microsoft related community activities. He was a frequent speaker at events such as Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User Groups. He also served as the President of both the Greater Charleston .NET User Group (www.gcnug.org) and the Charleston Chapter of IASA.
Murray has co-authored three publications in the past two years. He has also served as a content author for Content Masters, TheServerSide.NET, GrandMasters, ExamForce, and Microsoft Learning.
Software + Services Abstract:
Everyone has customers both internal and external so starting with that common term of customer, your customer is probably asking you about many different acronyms, tools, and methodologies. SOA. SaaS. Web 2.0. RIA. Cloud Computing. Which ones are right for them? Which ones are going to deliver value for their projects? And more importantly, how should they be using Software + Services to help build those solutions. This presentation will help answer those questions and introduce a set of principles that you can use with customer architects as they start to understand the Software + Services strategy.
Best regards,
Max Poliashenko
IASA Atlanta chapter, President
