Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to give you a heads up for two of the upcoming GeoMeetups - super awesome speakers :)</div><div><br></div><div>1.- <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.1em">Platform as a Service (OpenShift PaaS) for Geospatial Applications</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.1em"><br></span></div><div><div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px">About the presentation:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px">Platform as a Service (PaaS) represents the next evolution of cloud computing – developers just write their apps in anything from Java to Python, commit their code to git, and voila – instant app!</span></font></div>
<div><span style="line-height:14px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Steven will talk a bit about PaaS versus Infrastructure as a Service versus Software as a Service and when you might consider each cloud solution.</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:14px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Then he will use Redhat's OpenShift PaaS to show how quickly and easily a developer can get their data into PostGIS or MongoDB spatial, deploy Geoserver to Jboss, and then place a small web app on top. A developer can focus on building spatial applications, leaving the infrastructure and scaling to their PaaS provider.</span></div>
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<div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px">About Steve: </span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font color="#444444" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:14px">Steve is a PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do. He can teach you about PaaS with Java, PostgreSQL MongoDB, mobile JavaScript, some Android, a little bit of iPhone, and even some Python . He has 11 years of Java programming expertise ranging from data processing and statistical analysis to ORM and web applications. He began doing geospatial work 19 years ago and has done geospatial programming work on multiple platforms using JavaScript, .NET, and Java, He has spoken at numerous conferences including JavaOne, BAPI, CTIA, AjaxWorld, ESRI Developer Conference, GeoWeb, Where2.0, and SAP TechEd. Before OpenShift, Steve was a developer evangelist for LinkedIn and deCarta. Steve holds a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.S. from University of Georgia and a Ph. D. in Ecology from University of Connecticut. He likes building interesting applications and helping developers create great solutions.</span></font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/events/61151102/">http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup/events/61151102/</a></div><div><br></div><div>2.- GDAL Present and Future - Frank Warmerdam</div><div><br>
</div><div><div>About the presentation:</div><div><br></div><div>The GDAL/OGR library and tools is a swiss-army-knife for geospatial data access. Frank will provide an introduction to the project, discussion of capabilities focused on the raster data and then some command line and python examples.</div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div>About Frank Warmerdam:</div><div><br></div><div>Frank is the founder of the GDAL/OGR project and long time geospatial data hacker contributing to projects including libtiff, libgeotiff, PROJ.4, and MapServer and active in OSGeo. After more than a decade of consulting he has sold out to the man, and is now working at Google.</div>
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