Free Ticket and Discounts for Velocity Conference
This is a post from Luke's old blog; it is saved here statically for historical purposes, as of October 2008
O'Reilly is putting on their first-ever operations conference this summer, Velocity (it's actually half operations and half performance). I'll definitely be attending the conference, and I'll hopefully be speaking. I know Adam Jacob is giving a talk, and they might yet find a way to fit me in.
O'Reilly has generously offered me a free ticket to give to the Puppet community, so I need to come up with some sort of dasterdly scheme to pick the best person to give it to. For those who don't get the free ticket, you can use the discount code 'vel08red' to get a 25% discount on attendance.
I've been trying to find a way to make it more obvious when I'll be at a given conference, since I'm always interested in meeting other parts of the Puppet community in person, so I'm hoping to put one of their badges up on my blog and maybe the web site soon.
Note that this is a semi-sponsored post: I'm getting a free ticket. However, I'm also helping to organize the conference (I went to the Velocity Summit with the rest of the organizers in January), and I'm more excited about this conference than I have been about any other in a while. I'm for anything we can do as a community to encourage O'Reilly to be more interested in operations. I'd certainly love to see lots of Puppeteers there.
