Our awesome clients, www.causecast.org , offered to host the next meetup we’ll be having. Check out the full details here:

http://web.meetup.com/34/calendar/8883832/

We had a great meetup this week on the 5th. There was an attendance of about eighty-five people this time. This meetup also marked the 10th meetup for us. We couldn’t have done it without your eagerness to be part of an evolving tech-community in Los Angeles.

We also have to thank Rubicon for hosting the 10th meetup. They had an amazing looking location, and it even has a bit of Hollywoodesque history associated with it. Apparently, their space was used for the show 24, and we got to see Jack Bauer’s office which is pretty damn cool. We also overheard that Snoop Dogg laid some tracks down in one of the other rooms. Rubicon is definitely one of my favorite web-venues that I’ve seen.

The following was presented at the meetup:

Ari Lerner - Auto-Scaling cloud-computing on amazon EC2 + S3

Nick Merwin - Rolling with Red5 (open source Flash server)

Erik Osterman - Faster Response Times By Using the Starling Queue Server

To get the slides and example code, check out this post in the meetup boards.

Each presentation was equally entertaining and informative. Thanks for providing quality content to the community guys!

Here’s a photo I found off the meetup group for your enjoyment:

Jack Bauer's office is the office on the top right in this image

Looking for some videos? Why of course!

What are people saying?

The meeting was great, all the presentations were very informative and interesting, good choice of topics. The new format definitely work, let’s keep it. The Rubicon office was pretty fancy and served good food ;-) Thanks to Will for arranging this event, it was very well organized, like usual. - Oleg Baranovsky

I enjoyed this event very much! Thanks Will for organizing this event! The presentations were engaging, and it was great meeting all of you web gurus! The food and beer was awesome too! :) - Rob Stathem

Take a look at our meetup page for more details.

Were you able to attend the meetup? What did you think of it?

We will have the next Los Angeles Web Application Developers Meetup at AOL this month. We are only letting in 75 guests this time. RSVP asap to reserve your spot.

AOL is the sponsor of this months meetup on April 22nd at 8pm. We’ll get between 50-75 developers together and go over some quick presentations about new cool stuff , eat some pizza and chat. The presentation format is 5-10 minutes on something that web application developers should know, followed by 5 minutes Q&A. There are four open slots right now, so please send me your proposals for a presentation!

When?: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008, 8:00 PM

Where?: AOL, 331 N Maple Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Join us at Los Angeles’s biggest meetup for web application developers. Find out what’s new in development for the web. Presenters will allow you to pick up a few tips and tricks and find out about new tools. After our presentations enjoy refreshments (and beer) and network with other local developers.

http://web.meetup.com/34/