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Don Jones
Announcements

PowerShell.org Free eBook Transition

Over the past few weeks, Matt Penny has been busy moving our free eBooks into their new home on Penflip. Code, when available, is located in our GitHub repo, and modules will soon be available in the PowerShell Gallery for downloading via Install-Module. Penflip is a Markdown-based editing system backed by GitHub. This means anyone can contribute corrections, additional material, and so on - which will make it easier to maintain these great books over time.

Richard Siddaway
Announcements

PowerShell Summit NA 2015 Agenda changes

We’ve had to make some minor changes to the Summit agenda – the revised schedule is shown on the event web site - http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSNA15

Don Jones
Announcements

Our eBook Transition – and Your Chance to Contribute!

We’re in the process of migrating our free ebook collection over to Penflip, an online, Git-based collaborative authoring and publishing tool. Matt Penny has taken the lead in converting our Word documents to the Markdown syntax used by Penflip, and as you can see on our ebooks page, most of the titles now have an initial version in Penflip. One neat thing about Penflip is that anyone can register for a free account, fork one of our projects, and make their own modifications.

Don Jones
Announcements

Let's Make a PowerShell Job Interview Quiz. C'mon and Help.

The folks at Smarterer have agreed to let us - that’s all of us, as in “The PowerShell Community” - build a sort of “exam” for people to prove their PowerShell Proficiency. And I need your help to do it! Step 1, you need to be pretty decent with PowerShell yourself. Not Level 12 Guru Level, mind you, but you should be working with it daily. Most of this book should make sense to you.

Don Jones
Books

eBook Cover Contest

Fancy yourself a graphics person? Just like to doodle? We’re holding a contest to create new covers for our various ebooks. Winners will receive absolutely nothing, other than a cover credit within the text (hey, we’ll also give you a full set of the ebooks for free, what the heck). Covers must include the book title, and should include the PowerShell.org logo. The logo is below. Don’t include author names in the artwork.

Richard Siddaway
Announcements

PowerShell Summit Europe 2015–topic submissions

Topic submissions for the PowerShell Summit Europe are still open. If you want to be considered as a speaker please submit your topic very soon. At the moment there aren’t enough submissions to enable us to put on a quality event. The 2014 European Summit was an excellent event with many good sessions – now is the time to submit your sessions. We need your sessions. We have a policy of accepting sessions from new speakers as well as established experts.

NJPowerShell
PowerShell for Admins

NJ PowerShell Users Group Meeting: Presenter Doug Finke – Microsoft MVP

The NJ PowerShell User Group is having a meetup on Thursday, January 8th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. If interested, please register through the Eventbrite website to track attendance for ordering pizza. For those attending online (Webex) we will send a follow-up email with the meeting link based on Eventbrite online registrants. Agenda: 6:00 – 6:30: Pizza and socializing 6:30 – 7:30: Presentation 7:30 - 8:00: Q & A Please note that the Webex meeting will start at 6:00 PM, but the actual presentation won't start until 6:30 In-Person attendees must register, print out their EventBrite ticket, and present it at the door.

Don Jones
Announcements

PowerShell Summit N.A. 2015 Status Update & Info

As of this post, PowerShell Summit North America 2015 is full, and registration has been cut off. We’re taking some time to confirm our numbers and venue capacity; if we’re able to open additional seats, that will happen in January 2015. We will allow any additional capacity to be registered until one month prior to the Summit, or until it sells out, whichever comes first. We do not maintain a waiting list; please check here and on the @PSHSummit Twitter feed for any announcements.

Don Jones
Announcements

JOB POSTING: Help us Run PowerShell.org

[UPDATE: We’ve gotten an outpouring of responses - I’m literally a bit teary-eyed right now - so I’ll work with the existing set of volunteers and post again should everyone realize what we’re asking and go running for the hills!] We’re looking for a volunteer to take over regular maintenance of the PowerShell.org website. We may even have a small budget to make this a paid-contractor gig. Trick being, it’s gotta be done _regularly.