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Past Events (417)
October 26Monday
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OSCON Amsterdam
October 26, 2015 to October 28, 2015 – RAI Did you know OSCON is coming to Amsterdam this year? It's just a little more than a week away. You'll find a whole new set of speakers with an entirely different range of subjects from OSCON in Portl… Organized by O'Reilly Media | Type: conference
October 23Friday
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Start Up Weekend
October 23, 2015 at 6pm to October 25, 2015 at 7pm – Infinity Hall UF FROM IDEA TO STARTUP IN ONE WEEKEND! - Pitch an idea for a business- Meet exciting new people- Build a powerful team- Work on your favorite project- Learn from local mentors- Create a prototype- Deve… Organized by dont' know | Type: start, up
October 22Thursday
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OrlandoJUG October Meetup - Distributed Caching with JCache and Beyond
October 22, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs Hello OrlandoJUG! This month I will be in San Francisco for Java One, Oracle's annual Java conference. Fortunately, Alex Buckles and Gregg Groves will be here to lead the meeting. Thanks, guys! Our t… Organized by Alex Buckles & Greg Groves | Type: meeting
September 24Thursday
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OrlandoJUG - Google Web Toolkit!
September 24, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Canvs This month we'll have a presentation on the Google Web Toolkit! Google Web Toolkit (GWT), used by Google internally on some of their biggest applications, is growing and quite good. Learn about the… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: meeting
August 20Thursday
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GatorJUG
August 20, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University This month we're going to have a combined meeting with the OrlandoJUG in Orlando. Carol McDonald will join us and give a presentation on Apache Spark. You won't want to miss it! Here are the details:… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug, meeting
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OrlandoJUG ::: Apache Spark with Carol McDonald
August 20, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – DeVry University This month we have a special guest: Carol McDonald will join us and give a presentation on Apache Spark! And, we're backing up our usual meeting day to the third Thursday instead of the fourth Thurs… Organized by Michael Levin | Type: jug, meeting
July 20Monday
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Cultivate (a leadership conference)
July 20, 2015 to July 21, 2015 – Oregon Convention Center To be a leader today, you need to master the new essentials—data-informed decision-making, design-first thinking, and rapid, iterative development—and to create a productive work environment for all… Organized by O'Reilly Media | Type: conference
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OSCON
July 20, 2015 to July 24, 2015 – Portland OSCON celebrates, defines, and demonstrates the power of open source in the world today. From small businesses to the enterprise, open source is the first choice of IT everywhere. OSCON, the open… Organized by O'Reilly Press | Type: conference
July 18Saturday
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Community Leadership Summit 2015
July 18, 2015 at 9am to July 19, 2015 at 5pm – Oregon Convention Center The Community Leadership Summit 2015 is the sixth incarnation of the primary event that brings together community leaders and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growin… Organized by Jono Bacon | Type: conference
July 8Wednesday
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jaxjug July Meeting - Introduction to Spark
July 8, 2015 from 6pm to 8pm – Availity Introduction to Spark Presented by Carol McDonald, MapR Technologies Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. In contrast to Hadoop's two-stage disk-based MapRed… Organized by Eyal Wir | Type: meeting
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