| The Tuesday, September 13th meeting of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users
Group (RMIUG) will discuss "Building a Start-Up in the Internet Age"
In its 10 years of "popular" existence, the Internet has completely
transformed dozens of industries. For example, how many of us would ever
think about calling a travel agent to book an airline ticket? Would we ever
buy a car without checking what the dealer invoice price is first?
But, in addition to transforming Industries, the Internet is also
revolutionizing the actual structures of businesses. The ubiquitous
interconnectivity has made it much easier for new companies to start up, be
more nimble than industry stalwarts, and produce products and solutions
faster than ever before.
During the next meeting we will learn how a unique local start-up, Walking
Orbit, Inc., not only uses the Internet for its core product (it is a
software company that creates Internet based tools that help companies
manage their mobile assets by integrating GPS, GIS, wireless data) but also
how it uses the Internet to enable a nearly 50-person, part-time,
equity-compensated, team to develop its products. We will even explore some
of the Agile development methodologies it uses as they are the key to their
success.
To explore this topic, RMIUG will bring in several
speakers:
Brian Tsuchiya (Brian@WalkingOrbit.net) is the Co-Founder/CEO of Walking
Orbit has built five start-up ventures since 1992 and started Walking Orbit
in the autumn of 2003. Brian will talk about his experiences building
Walking Orbit and about the solutions it produces.
Brendan Lally (brendan@walkingorbit.net) is the Chief Technology Officer and
a full-time Founder of Walking Orbit. Brendan has over 20 years of
experience in sectors ranging from financial services, retail, real estate,
manufacturing, medical, and government to non-profits. He has experience
with large Fortune 100 enterprises through to smaller firms including
building an e-commerce startup from scratch (in the dot-com boom) and it
growing it from 20 to 700 people.
Brendan will go through the details of GIS/GPS technology.
Brandon Stewart (bkstewart@gmail.com) is a Director and part-time Founder of
Walking Orbit. Brandon has more than nine years of professional experience
in the Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing of complex
software systems. He is currently a Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec
Corp. He holds a Masters Degree in Distributed Computing Systems from
DePaul University, obtained in 1999. Mr.
Stewart also has extensive experience leading development teams, as well as
mentoring and instructing both junior-level developers and developers new to
distributed technologies such as Java and Object-Oriented Analysis & Design.
Brandon will go over Walking Orbit's unique infrastructure and use of Agile
methodologies in its development.
The meeting is Tuesday, September 13th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
(with optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments and
informal networking). The meeting will be held at The
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from
the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for
approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills. NCAR is at
the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving
directions, go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/),
click on Driving Directions, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium,
right off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to
the public, but we may pass the hat to help defray
expenses.
Our
meeting location seats about 120 people.
That is usually enough room to accommodate all attendees,
but it's impossible for us to predict how many
people will show up for any given meeting. Seating is
always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the
event of more attendees than seats, we won't be able
to admit additional people into the auditorium after
all seats are filled.
Thanks
to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG
meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com)
which provides Creative and Technical Talent
for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing Communications
and Software
Development projects, is the sponsor of
food and beverages for RMIUG
meetings.
ONEWARE
(http://www.ONEWARE.com)
-- a Colorado-based software company that
provides semi-custom web-based applications,
sponsors the RMIUG meeting
minutes.
Copy
Diva (http://www.copydiva.com)
which provides
marketing project management, marketing
communications
consulting, and web content development
is the AV
sponsor for RMIUG.
Consultants
and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product
information, brochures, and business cards
which will be displayed on an
information table.
There are email mailing lists set up for
this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html
You can also reach the
RMIUG "Executive" Committee at
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org. Our web site is at
http://www.rmiug.org/
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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR
and we are their guests. NCAR has security
regulations in effect
that we must follow in order to use the
facility. If any RMIUG attendee is unwilling
to follow these simple
regulations, I would ask that he or she
not attend and instead read the minutes
after the meeting.
Here
are the NCAR security policies that must
be followed:
1.
No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide
name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including
providing ID if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation
and courtesy are expected when dealing with
NCAR staff.
If
there are any questions or concerns with
this policy, please contact me directly.
Thanks, Josh Zapin
(josh@r...).
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