If you are feel you can help, please contact Betsy directly.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Betsy Jones</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:betsy.jones@enterpriselamp.org">betsy.jones@enterpriselamp.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:36 AM<br>Subject: :: Seeking Enterprise LAMP case studies :: Tell Big LAMP Camp about your cool code ::<br><br><br><br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Greetings from the Nashville Enterprise LAMP
community! </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We’re planning an <b><font color="#003366"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Enterprise LAMP Summit</span></font></b>
for CTOs (Nov. 5-6) and a <b><font color="#003366"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Big LAMP Camp</span></font></b> for developers (Nov. 7) and
would like ask your help in tapping into the bleeding-edge open source
initiatives in your community for <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">case
studies</span></b> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">for Big LAMP Camp.</span></b>
In particular, we are interested in:</span></font></p>
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uses of emerging open source technologies in the enterprise (large or mid-sized
companies)</span></font></p>
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about large companies that have completed a transition from closed source
software to any part of LAMP</span></font></p>
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packages you maintain or contribute to </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: 0in;"><font size="2" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings;"><span>v<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></font></span></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cloud and
mobile applications using open source technology </span></font></p>
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leveraging Web 2.0 systems (Facebook, GData, Twitter, e.g.) with OSS to make powerful
applications</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If you know of companies in your region doing these sorts of
initiatives, we would welcome an introduction. And if you’re doing this
cool stuff yourself, please tell us! <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please
share this query with your user group members and colleagues, too. </span></b></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Case studies need not be presentation-ready to be
considered, and we can offer some technical direction to companies or
developers who would like to write case studies for consideration. </span></font></p>
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<p><span><b><u><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Background</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></u></b></span></p>
<p><span><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">The </span></font></span><span><b><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Enterprise
LAMP Summit</span></font></b></span><span><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> will focus attention on the emerging <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">readiness for enterprise use of the LAMP stack </span></b>and associated </span></font></span><span><font color="#1c1c1c" size="1" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(28, 28, 28);">open source
Internet-enabled operating systems, internet application servers, database
systems and Internet-focused programming languages. </span></font></span><span><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);"></span></font></span></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We are very pleased to confirm as speakers:</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><b><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">Lee Congdon</span></font></b></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">, CIO of</span></font><span><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"> </span></font></span><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"><a href="http://www.redhat.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">Red Hat</span></font><span><font color="#0d4882" size="3"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);"> </span></font></span></a>IS;</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><b style="outline-width: 0px;"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">Andi Gutmans</span></font></b></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">,
CEO at PHP leader</span></font><span><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"> </span></font></span><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"><a href="http://www.zend.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">Zend Technologies</span></font></a>;</span></font></p>
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</span></font></span></span></font><b style="outline-width: 0px;"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">r0ml (Robert Lefkowitz)</span></font></b></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">, thought leader, über-CTO and VP of</span></font><span><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"> </span></font></span><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"><a href="http://www.asurion.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">Asurion</span></font></a>;</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 76.5pt; text-indent: -0.3in; line-height: 14.25pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="black" size="2" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: black;"><span>v<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></font></span></span></font><b style="outline-width: 0px;"><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">William Hurley</span></font></b></b><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">,
Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at</span></font><span><font color="black" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"> </span></font></span><font color="black" size="2" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;"><a href="http://www.bmc.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">BMC Software</span></font></a>.</span></font></p>
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<p><span><b><font color="#003366" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-weight: bold;">Big LAMP Camp </span></font></b></span><span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">is expected to draw top 600 developers from across the U.S.
to learn from </span></font></span><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">innovative open source firms that
will share their on-the-ground reports in an engaging multi-track event.
Speakers will include <span><b><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-weight: bold;">Eli White</span></font></b><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"> of</span></font></span><span><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"> </span></font></span><span><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"><a href="http://devzone.zend.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">Zend Developer Zone</span></font><span><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130); text-decoration: none;"> </span></font></span></a>and
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jonathan Wage</span></b> of</span></font></span><span><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"> </span></font></span><span><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"><a href="http://www.sensiolabs.com" style="outline-width: 0px;" target="_blank"><font color="#0d4882"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(13, 72, 130);">Sensio Labs</span></font></a>.</span></font></span></span></font><span><font color="#1c1c1c"><span style="color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"></span></font></span></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Intrigued?</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> More info @ <a href="http://www.enterpriselamp.org/" target="_blank">www.EnterpriseLAMP.org</a>. </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Thanks! We look forward to hearing
your LAMP success stories. </span></font></b></p>
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