{"id":881,"date":"2008-07-24T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2008-07-24T13:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T18:19:53","slug":"silona-speaks-about-grids-databases-and-open-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/24\/silona-speaks-about-grids-databases-and-open-government","title":{"rendered":"Silona speaks about grids, databases, and open government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silona Bonewald<\/a>, the lady always in a hat (she says that it’s just become an extension of her). Describe her, by her tags: open government, open data, open standards, and databases.<\/p>\n

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\n(watch the video<\/a> if your feed reader strips it out)<\/p>\n

Silona’s the founder of The League of Technical Voters<\/a>, which allows technical people to be more involved in voting process. As part of this, she created the Transparent Federal Budget<\/a>, with Bill Bradley and Jimmy Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, she’s also the open source evangelist for grid.org<\/a>. The focus there is a social network for grid, cluster, and cloud computing folk – a community of communities. Best of all, this was just launched on Tuesday!<\/p>\n

It’s also the home to UniCluster, and they’ve recently struck a deal which Intel to pop UniCluster in BIOSes. UniCluster works with Sun’s Grid Engine<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n

She’s interested in Drizzle, for the same reason that she likes Drupal. She likes the decorator model, and she thinks its a great way to get the parallel computing solutions fixed.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, all of the stuff she works on currently, is powered by MySQL.<\/p>\n

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