From being a local community to bringing entrepreneurs from around the world to interact, the prime moto of this group is to nourish an ecosystem where "Entrepreneurs Help Entrepreneurs". The new addition is in the form of the Mission: "Creating Responsible Relationships among business owners and professionals across the globe to help cultivate value as a result of collaboration". And as the name suggests, the goal is to make The World a better place as we make our place a better world. Ecologi …

Derived from the anthropological study of gift exchange, a gift economy (or gift culture) is a mode of exchange that contrasts to market or commodity exchange. In principle, voluntary and recurring gift exchange both creates and circulates wealth and consumption goods and builds a community. In contrast to a market economy, informal custom governs gift exchange, rather than negotiated pricing. Societies dominated by gift exchange were small in scale and geographically remote from each other. As …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …