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We’re looking for someone who can publish a regular “What You Missed This Week” blog post on PowerShell.org each Friday (excepting the odd week off for vacations, of course). This is meant just as a roundup of interesting posts from around the web; we know tons of people are blogging in their own spaces, and we’d like to call attention to some of the more noteworthy ones. This isn’t any more complex than a brief blurb for each:
Back in… gosh, 2009, 2010 or so, an Arizona company named NetPro hosted PowerShell Deep Dive, part of their The Experts Conference event (the first was held in Las Vegas for just 50 people). After hosting two years (I think) though, NetPro was purchased by Quest Software, which moved to close down TEC. I may have those years slightly off, but that’s the general sequence. In 2012, myself, Jeff Hicks, Richard Siddaway, Jason Helmick, and Kirk Munro had formed PowerShell.
We need your help.
As you may have heard, we’re launching a new “OnRamp” track at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019. Limited to 40 students, this will be a hands-on class designed to bootstrap someone into the technology and our community. There’s a whole brochure about it!
We’re also offering a number of free-ride scholarships designed to cover admission, air, and hotel, to help increase the diversity of our field and community right at the top of the funnel. Half of our scholarships will be awarded to individuals from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in IT, and that’s where we need your help.
We need to get the word out to potential applicants so that they know to apply!
We’ve been conducting a survey of Summit 2018, now that it’s in the past, and wanted to share some of our immediate take-aways. The survey is still open for Summiteers until end of April 2018; you should have the URL in a follow-up email and can inquire in the Slack team if you need it.
This week at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018, we announced a change in leadership for The DevOps Collective, the nonprofit organization that runs Summit, PowerShell.org, and other programs. Stepping in as CEO will be former Director of Online Services Will Anderson (@gamerlivingwill on Twitter). As CEO, Will takes on day to day responsibility for running Summit, managing the website, and keeping our other programs on track. He will be assembling a team, including our new CFO James Petty, to help him with those tasks.
Information is now available at IronScripter.us for the at-Summit events, and participants are advised to refresh themselves on the Rules. Participants attending Summit should begin choosing their faction and getting to know their teammates in the faction-specific channels of the DevOps-Summit Slack team (open only to attendees and alumni). Participants hoping to participate remotely may wish to start choosing a faction and finding a way to get in touch with them.
We sent out a big email blast to everyone this morning (noon Eastern time), and if you didn’t get it it’s because (probably) your corporate email is block-block-blocking us. You’re welcome to sign up a personal email address at http://eepurl.com/cEcNlT, if you’d like. We’ll also continue to post communications in the #summit-events channel in the Slack team. A PDF of this morning’s email is here, although this’ll be the last one we post publicly.
As I write this, we’ve sold out. Here’s what happens next: We need to finish reconciling our speaker slots and PowerShell team seats, which will take about a week. That may result in a free seat or two, which we will place on sale. Watch @PSHSummit on Twitter for that announcement. A WAITLIST IS AVAILABLE ON THE REGISTRATION PAGE. Sign up if you’d like first notice of released inventory and a 24h window to claim a seat
This is a bit of a long post, but we promise - it’s important, and it’s worth it. Refunds & Transfers Because this is the time of year when it starts to come up, remember that we don’t offer registration refunds. You’re welcome to transfer your membership, however, at no fee. Just log into EventBrite (if someone else registered you, they’ll need to do this) and change the attendee information. Voila!
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We’re working with the PowerShell team at Microsoft to identify individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the PowerShell community. Perhaps they’ve written blog posts that really helped you conquer a PowerShell challenge, or maybe they’ve contributed code (on GitHub or elsewhere) that you rely on. Maybe they’re an amazing teacher, or perhaps they’re an awesome coder. Whatever their contribution, if it’s been notable and helpful to you, we’d like to hear from you.