The Los Angeles LAMP Special Interest Group (LAMPsig) is an off-shoot of the Linux Users of Los Angeles (LULA) group. LAMPsig is focused on web development and end user web interfaces. The LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is the SIG's starting point. The concept of an open source web development and web hosting platform matters much more than the acronym chosen to represent it. The open source nature of the platform is its greatest strength. So any alternative open source component …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions. Target Audience: Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting, solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. *Our first topic for this meetup is on "Job Scheduling and Monitoring". * Please let me know if …

RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech Socials provide a casual, unpreten …

Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu. Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysins …

I've thought many times how good it would be to get a group of creative web minds together. Looking for advanced and intermediate internet developers of all kinds, coders, designers, developers, SEO, etc... A good meeting showing each other new technologies, programs and designs. And time to help each other out with puzzling questions and issues. With absolutely no egos... Hopefully the right people might even be able to start some projects together. Web startups can't survive with 1 person! so …