Chicago Cloud Meetup - "Community-powered Cloud Development"

Crowdsourcing is a powerful idea driving disruption in typical IT delivery models. Combining the wisdom of the crowd and rapid development benefits of the cloud, the best "cloudsourced" solution wins in this growing community-driven world. On CloudSpokes.com (http://CloudSpokes.com/), a developer "wins" a contest (and is paid), but the true winner is the consumer of the solution: any system integrator, public cloud customer, consulting firm, or software development company. We are pleased to announce that Shawn Devries will be speaking this month on the benefits of the CloudSpokes.com model for individual developers and consumers of CloudSpokes.com products. Join us to hear how the CloudSpokes community engine powered Salesforce.com (http://Salesforce.com/)'s Dreamforce 2011 Hackathon and explore how this model can help you in your efforts.

Shawn is a seasoned technology professional with 13 years of experience. Most recently Shawn works onsite and remotely with customers to analyze their cloud computing requirements, develop designs, and implement cloud-based solutions.

Learn more about Shawn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/shawndevries).