The Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE. THE MEETING IS A WEEK EARLY DUE TO THANKSGIVING

AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:35 PM - Announcements
6:35 - 7:15 PM - Basic Concepts
7:15 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT
Solbase

Solbase is an exciting new open-source real-time search system being developed at Photobucket.com to service the over 30 million daily search requests Photobucket handles. Solbase is based upon Lucene, Solr and HBase. This talk will discuss the basics of search technology and then give brief over view of Lucene, Solr and HBase. The discussion will then move on to an in-depth overview of Solbase itself, the obstacles that were overcome in its development, its basic architecture, and the current status and results of the project.

MAIN SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHY
Matt Green

As Principal Engineer at Photobucket.com, Matt has over 17 years of software development experience in the telecom and web industries.

Previously a software architect at companies such as Level 3 and Avaya, Matt has been working in the web world at Photobucket for the last 4 years. Matt has a wide breadth of experience in many languages and environments, from C++ to Java and PHP and is one of the primary contributors and architects of the soon to be released Solbase project. Matt holds a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Kyungseog Oh

Kyungseog joined Photobucket in 2008 as a developer to take a role on the search team.

During this time, Kyungseog has become the search guru within Photobucket and led the migration of a stand-alone Lucene search engine into a distributed architecture using Solr. Prior to Photobucket, Kyungseog developed web analytic software at Omniture.

Kyungseog holds a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from University of Utah.

BASIC CONCEPTS ABSTRACT
Software Patents

Software patents have been an important issue in the open source community for decades. While surveys indicate that over 80% of software developers believe patents hurt innovation more than they help, patents continue to grow stronger, and patent portfolios larger. This presentation will explain the problems with software patents, look at the ways they are affecting todays technology industry and open source software in particular, and end with concrete steps that can be taken to address this problem.

BASIC CONCEPTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Chris Smith

Chris Smith is co-owner and lead software developer with Brindle Waye, Ltd., an eLearning and technical training provider based in Colorado Springs. He is also a core developer for the Snap web framework, and maintains multiple other open source software projects.

OUR SPONSORS
Website Sponsor: Homeland Security Careers (https://www.meetup.com/csopensource/)
Food Sponsor: TEKSystems (http://www.teksystems.com)
Door Prize Sponsors: Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) - Software license (Several products to choose from)
Book Sponsor: OReilly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com) - Technical books