[Flounder] AWS

[DL Neil]

On 04/04/2022 20.27, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote:
> # I’m **** ****, Developer Marketing Manager at Amazon Web Services.
> # I’m reaching out to you as the owner of a tech related meetup group, to
> # offer AWS speakers, SWAGs, and credits for upcoming events. If this is
> # something you’d be interested in, you can reach out to me here or via
> # ****@amazon.com to discuss topics and find a relevant speaker.
> 
> I just got the above message via linkedin.  We don't physically meet so SWAG 
> probably isn't much use unless they offer something particularly good that's 
> worth the effort of remailing.  Speakers might not help as we aren't about 
> learning how to do proprietary things, although of course if they have 
> something about AWS services that are managed FOSS services then it might be 
> useful from a FOSS perspective (maybe they have a PostgreSQL lecture that can 
> be suitably informative for non-AWS PostgreSQL).
> 
> AWS credits could be useful, instead of messing around with port forwarding 
> etc we could just run on EC2.  Also given the number of people here I'm surely 
> not the only one with AWS experience so if I'm not well enough to set things 
> up properly (as was the case last Saturday) then someone else could take over.
> 
> What do you think?


I'm wary of AWS. Aren't they keen to 'take' benefit from F/LOSS projects
but slower to make any (useful) return?

We're a F/LOSS group, so if the subject (even, if the speaker/sponsor)
is not aligned, we shouldn't...

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Regards =dn