Inaugural USA Meet the Devs

Well we did it, we held our first “Meet the Devs” in the US and I’ll venture to say it was successful. Let me emphasize the “we” involved in this event. This was a great joint effort between users and IBM with special thanks to Janet Ellsworth of IBM for all she did to make this event happen, and Doris Conti for making sure lots of IBMers, including lots of developers, came down from Poughkipsie. Thanks also to the US co-principal Bob Oesterlin and Pallavi Galgali for keeping things moving right along behind the scenes. We’ll see Bob and Pallavi in person at the SC15 meeting in Austin.

There’s a poll we’re running to get feedback from the attendees and we’ll see how my own feelings match up with the group’s. The discussion was lively, and everyone felt comfortable to ask direct questions and talk about it all —the good, the bad and the ugly.

From an attendee perspective there was reasonable diversity as well with representatives from financial, medical/genetics, and university sectors.

So, what was covered? I’m glad you asked.

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Inaugural US Meet the Developers Event

The inaugural US “Meet the Developers” session has been arranged.

Date: Wednesday 7th October 2015

Place: IBM building, 590 Madison Avenue, New York City

Time: 12:30 to 5 PM (Lunch will be served at 12:30, and sessions will start between 1 and 1:30 PM. Afternoon refreshments will also be served)

Agenda

  • IBM development architect to present the new protocols support that was released with Spectrum Scale 4.1.1 in June.
  • IBM developer to demo future Graphical User Interface Member of user community to present an experience with using Spectrum Scale
  • Open Q&A with the development team

If you are interested in attending please e-mail Janet Ellsworth janetell@us.ibm.com. Please also let Janet know if you are willing to present your experience using Spectrum Scale.