Tag: Second Life

Here’s the Second Life chat schedule for February. All of the chats will take place at 10 AM PST on the Amazon Developers Islands in Second Life. If you are new to Second Life and have trouble locating the island, simply log in 15 minutes or so before the chat and send me (“Jeffronius Batra”) […]

I will be speaking (via Second Life) at the Proto.in conference on Friday night and I hope to see you there. I will be speaking at 11:59 PM Friday (this time has changed several times) and will also be hanging out on the island on Friday as time permits. You can read more about this […]

I will be giving an AWS talk in Second Life on Friday, November 30 at Noon PST. The talk will take place at the amphitheater on Dr Dobbs Island. This will be a genuine “talk,” with streamed audio, so make sure that your speakers are working! I am planning to talk about web-scale computing, the […]

The Tokyo Linux User Group will be conducting a combined real-life / Second Life meeting this weekend. Lars Kotthoff will be giving a presentation on a Ruby script he has developed for backup using Amazon S3 . The presentation will be given in English. The Second Life portion of the meeting will take place in […]

Now that the summer is over, the weekly (as my schedule permits) Second Life chats are back. The next one will take place on Thursday September 6th at 10 AM. I will do my best to conduct the chats every Thursday and I hope to meet and converse with you there. We talk about EC2, […]

The first-ever AWS Developer Chat in Second Life was a big success and a whole lot of fun to boot. We had about 20 people (avatars) in attendance and we talked about Amazon S3, EC2, and all kinds of other related subjects. Here’s a picture taken by my friend Betsy Weber (who has a really […]

One of the larger and more prominent features of the Amazon Developers Islands is a long, covered marketplace. If you have ever been to South or Central America, you will see something familiar. Imagine a busy, chaotic and eclectic space, with goods of all sorts on exhibit, and lots of noise — a full-frontal sensory […]

Many years ago we used to hold weekly developer chats with the AWS community. These chats were fun and informative, even though we used a very limited text-based client. Now its time to try something new and more interactive! We will hold our first-ever Amazon Web Services Developer Chat in Second Life on Wednesday, May […]