Preparing for Velocity and the Puppet MiniConf

I finally got access to my blog again (laziness combined well with the SSH key exploit to lock me out for a bit), and it's long past time I posted an update.

Andrew and I will be at Velocity Monday and Tuesday, and I'll be giving a presentation there on Tuesday afternoon. We then have to hurry downtown to CloudCamp, and then Wednesday will be at Structure. Adam Jacob says we should all be sure to attend the Velocity Ignite! on Monday night, too.

Then, because hey, free time is for losers, Jay Aras is hosting a Puppet MiniConf on Thursday

Andrew has been working steadily on getting new Puppet logos going (you should see a new favicon on the Trac site), and he promises to update our CSS in time for the conference.

And, last but not least, we'll be showing up with fancy new Puppet t-shirts. We'll be trying to figure out over the course of the week how to dole out shirts, so if you've got any good ideas, send me a note.

Anyway, I hope to see many of you over the course of the week, and I also hope to be updating far more often.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 | Tags: conference, travel, sanfrancisco, velocity, velocity08, structure, structure08, cloudcamp

Free Ticket and Discounts for Velocity Conference

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.

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | Tags: conference, velocity08, velocity, operations, oreilly