RSVP today http://chipy.org When: Thursday August 1st, 2013 at 7pm Where: The University of Chicago (Downtown) 303 East Upper Wacker Drive, #2300 Chicago, IL 60601 How good: Best Ever! We have moved the meeting to the first Thursday for a very good reason. Socially Good reason. Head over and hear some lightening talks from handful of the 40 social good doers from all over the world. Don't miss this once in a life time experience. Food and drink provided. If the lightening talks do not melt your brain, Joseph Curtin will. Deploy to the cloud while retaining the ability to deploy to $25 ARM based computer. This is deployment heaven in the clouds! This is going to be great. Topics: - *Lightening talks on Summer Fellows for "Data Science for Social Good" (1 hr) By: http://dssg.io/people/ *4-6 presentations 5-7 minutes each from the summer fellowship program lead by The University of Chicago on "data science for social good" (ref http://dssg.io) Come hear from the 40 fellows (mostly grad students and some undergrads in CS and stats) from around the country. Most of the work is done in Python and partnering with non profits and government organizations - *Cluster Fun* (0:30:00 Minutes) By: Joseph Curtin An overview of deploying to a cloud solution while retaining the ability to deploy to a raspberry pi. Automate the instantiation of your cluster no matter the hardware. Utilizing libcloud, we'll talk to AWS and Rackspace. Utilizing Paramiko we'll talk to a Raspberry-Pi, AWS, and Rackspace. - Source code and slides will be available at the start of the presentation. https://github.com/jbcurtin/cedar RSVP here http://chipy.org -- Brian Ray @brianray (773) 669-7717