…and he’s quite excited about it. EasyStreet’s Director of Finance, Jack Flug, has been appointed by the Director of the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), Michael Grainey, to the state’s Small Scale Energy Loan Program Advisory Committee (SELPAC). The committee, comprising seven appointed volunteers, recommends to the ODOE Director which energy-related projects should be approved for funding. You can read more about Jack’s new role and some of his comments here.
Thanks to Jim Wasko from IBM, EasyStreet had a successful and well-attended Lunch and Learn about Cloud Computing last week. (See previous post.) For those of you who missed it, you can find a link to Jim’s informative presentation here. If you’re interested in receiving evites to future Lunch and Learns, just send your request to EasyStreet Info and we’ll put you on the list.
Speaking of Cloud Computing, Gartner has named it, along with green IT and social-computing platforms, among the technologies that are poised to reach broad enterprise adoption in the next two to five years. You can read more about Gartner’s report in this InfoWorld article.
EasyStreet will be hosting a Lunch & Learn and you’re invited. Our guest speaker will be Jim Wasko, Program Director for Blue Cloud Development for IBM’s Systems and Technology Group.
Jim’s informative talk will include:
• Turning your business over to the Cloud — is it wise?
• What are the promises and pitfalls of Cloud Computing?
• What’s real and what’s “hype”?
Here are the details:
• Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• 12:00 — 1:30 pm
• EasyStreet: 9705 SW Sunshine Court, Beaverton
• Lunch will be provided
If you’d like to attend, please register by Friday, October 10 at http://easystreet.com/register/LL3. And feel free to invite others who might benefit.
Go to http://easystreet.com/about/contact for directions to EasyStreet.
I hope you’ll join us!
Portland is a bicycle friendly town. In fact, earlier this year Portland was the first major city to win the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) coveted Platinum award – their highest level of distinction. (Portland was at the lower Gold level for several years.) Now the LAB has extended their “bicycle-friendly” classification to businesses. Their Bicycle Friendly Business award honors businesses who pedal the extra mile to make their locations friendly to bikes and have employee and community programs which encourage bicycling. This is the first year of the award. We are pretty bike-oriented around here so we applied.
EasyStreet won a Bronze level of bicycle friendliness!
So, what makes EasyStreet so bike friendly? First, a lot of EasyStreet bikes to work, even out here in the suburban westside. We have participation running from 5% to 25% depending upon the weather and time of year. It helps that we allow bike parking inside (right next to your cubicle) and have showers available. And we donate various Internet services to a host of bicycle-related organizations from around the Portland Metro area and Oregon.
While we are proud of the award, we are not stopping here. We have a Gold level in our sights for next year.
Here is a link to the LAB press release.
Whew! Just a few weeks after OSCON decided to pull out of Portland, LinuxCon announces their inaugural conference will be moving in. The Linux Foundation hasn’t set prices or dates yet for the conference, but it’s nice to know our Silicon Forest still has some draw. You can read the article in the Oregonian here.
