The April General meeting will be held in our usual location at Yahoo, Sunnyvale. In Bldg E. classroom 9

Maps and directions to Yahoo are available at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm

BayLISA April General Meeting

Date: Thursday, April 17 2008, Doors open at 7pm, 7:30pm start

CTL: A new open source software project providing a cross-platform command dispatching framework for distributed application and system management.

Alex Honor is a developer and open-source project-leader for ControlTier Software. Alex has been designing and implementing automation and administration solutions for over 15 years. He was head of architecture and system engineering at E*TRADE, where he led the scaling of infrastructure from one app on 3 nodes to dozens of apps across thousands of nodes in multiple datacenters. Alex has held engineering and operations management positions in government and startups always focussing on distributed systems. His current focus is on CTL, a next-generation automation framework, for system and application administration. Alex also provides design consulting to ControlTier's SaaS and ecommerce customers to automate their online operations.

Please email rsvp@baylisa.org to help us plan attendance.