[svlug] ACCU meeting is still on as far as I know.

[Walter Vannini]

Hi Steven,

Yes, I was surprised also. Thanks for the update on what happened.

The meeting is still on.

All the best,

Walter

Steven Widom wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I was very surprised to see that one of the messages from the SVLUG used 
> my e-mail and claimed that this month's ACCU meeting is cancled. (The 
> message in question is contained in svlug Digest, Vol 338, Issue 4.)
> 
> I am not in a position to speak for the ACCU, and I assume the meeting 
> is still on.
> 
> I will run security checks on my system, and I have already sent an 
> e-mail notice to the administrators of both the ACCU and SVLUG mailing 
> lists.
> 
> 
> Steven Widom
> stevenw3 at mindspring.com
> 
> 
> 
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>    1. Event Canceled: ACCU Meeting (stevenw3 at mindspring.com)
>>    2. Ganglia Get-together at Wednesday's Monitoring SIG (Oct 8,
>>       7PM) (Chris B. Anderson)
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>> Subject:
>> [svlug] Event Canceled: ACCU Meeting
>> From:
>> stevenw3 at mindspring.com
>> To:
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>>
>> Event Invitation
>>
>> Title:
>>
>> 	
>>
>> ACCU Meeting
>>
>> Location:
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>> 	
>>
>> Symantec VCAFE building, 350 Ellis Street Mountain View
>>
>> When:
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>> 	
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>> Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
>>
>> Description:
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>> 	
>>
>> When: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
>> Topic: Developing Erlang at Yahoo
>> Speaker: Nick Gerakines
>> Time: 6:30pm doors open
>> 7:00pm meeting begins
>> Where: Symantec
>> VCAFE building
>> 350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
>> Mountain View, CA 94043
>> Map: <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
>> Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard
>> between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
>> Cost: Free
>> More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>
>>
>> Yahoo is no stranger to functional programming languages. It has had 
>> significant products in languages like Lisp and Scheme. Somehow 
>> Erlang, and other function languages, are often overlooked when most 
>> developers are researching various problems and systems. This is very 
>> unfortunate given the power and flexibility that these languages 
>> provide. At Yahoo there are places where functional languages make a 
>> phenomenal difference in the way problems and solutions are 
>> approached. This presentation will cover how Erlang, a powerful and 
>> flexible functional language, gave us exactly what we needed at a 
>> critical time and how it was approached as a production language at Yahoo.
>>
>> Nick Gerakines is a software engineer and technologist in the Silicon 
>> Valley. At Yahoo he worked on the backend and infrastructure team 
>> developing next generation federated data storage systems, driving 
>> test framework development and highly concurrent Erlang application 
>> systems. Currently he works in the Mobile group at Yahoo developing 
>> native iPhone applications and exposing other Yahoo groups to ways to 
>> developing iPhone applications. He is the author of the recent book 
>> "Facebook Application Development" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 
>> 2008) and is currently writing another book for the same publisher 
>> titled "Developing Erlang Web Applications" expected to release in 
>> early 2009. Nick resides in Mountain View with his wife, Carolyn, and 
>> daughter, Vanessa.
>>
>> Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.
>>
> 
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