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You’ve survived the first challenge. A new challenge in the shape of Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 2 is now available.
Take note of the faction based instructions.
Please remember that we’re not grading submissions for these puzzles.
You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum
Stay true to your faction and victory will be yours.
Greetings Iron Scripters
The first puzzle in the Iron Scripter 2018 Prequel series is available:
Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 1
Take note of the faction based instructions.
Please remember that we’re not grading submissions for these puzzles.
You can comment, and discuss the puzzle on the Iron Scripter Prequel forum
Stay true to your faction and victory will be yours.
Registrations are going very quickly. We’ve sold nearly half the available places. Historically, registrations accelerate in the first half of January so don’t wait too long before booking or you may be disappointed.
Another tranche of alumni discount places were made available at the beginning of January but there are only 25 of them so if you want one book your place very soon.
One new feature of Summit for 2018 is Iron Scripter - http://ironscripter.us/. Three factions will battle it out on Thursday 12 April 2018 for the title of Iron Scripter. If you haven’t chosen your faction it’s time to start thinking about it:
Daybreak Faction - beautiful code
Flawless Faction - flawless code
Battle Faction - good enough to get the job done
Choose your faction based on your approach to coding.
The run up to Iron Scripter starts soon.
We’ll be running a series of prequel events - think of them as the successor to the “Scripting Games” of the past. We’ll publish a puzzle on powershell.org every week on this schedule:
January 14 puzzle 1
January 21 puzzle 2
January 28 puzzle 3
February 4 puzzle 4
February 11 puzzle 5
February 18 puzzle 6
February 25 puzzle 7
March 4 puzzle 8
March 11 puzzle 9
March 18 puzzle 10
March 25 puzzle 11
A solution will be published the following week. The puzzle for March 25 will have a solution posted on 1 April.
Notice we say “a solution”. Depending on your faction you may have a different view of how the puzzle should be solved. A forum will be available on PowerShell.org - https://powershell.org/forums/forum/iron-scripter/iron-scripter-prequel/ - for you to present and discuss possible solutions. Give your faction’s view of how to solve the puzzle. Use the forums and the answers posted there to identify potential members of your faction. You can use non-attendees during the main Iron Scripter event so this is your chance to identify potential remote collaborators.
We MUST stress a couple of things:
Registration for the 2018 PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit is open.
These are the important links you’ll need:
Summit information
Registration
Agenda
The schedule for the 2018 Summit still needs a little bit of polishing to finish it but it’s taking shape. I’ve started releasing information on sched.com that we’re using for all our scheduling needs for the Summit. The one and only truth regarding the sessions and their times can be found at https://powershelldevopsglobalsummit2018.sched.com/
I’ll be adding sessions over the next few days so keep checking.
I’m really excited about the schedule for the 2018 Summit. We’ll have 4 rooms for sessions with many of your favourite speakers returning and many new speakers which is really good to see. The Community Lightning Demos return by popular acclaim and we’ll be running an Iron Scripter competition as well. The PowerShell Team will be presenting all day Monday and at other sessions through out the Summit.
Registration opens 1 November and once you’re registered through eventbrite your information will be sync’d to sched.com so that you can access the schedule and use the scheduling app.
The call for topics is closing 1 October at 23:59 GMT. We’ve had a fantastic set of submissions. Creating an agenda for the 2018 Summit is going to be very difficult because we’ve had so many fantastic sessions submitted and I don’t have enough slots to take them all.
The call for topics is hosted by papercall.io – highly recommended – and the cut off is automatic.
I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY SESSIONS SUBMITTED AFTER THE CUT OFF DATE.
We have started the acceptance process for the sessions to be presented at the 2018 Summit. Those currently accepted sessions are listed in the brochure
The deadline for submissions still remains as 2 October 2017
We’ll probably be formally accepting a number of other sessions during September BUT the bulk of the agenda won’t be finalised until after the deadline closes.
You still have plenty of time to get your submissions into the system. The earlier you do so the more time we have to help you refine the submission.
PowerShell 2.0 is being deprecated - see the PowerShell Team blog for full details
There’s been a lot of discussion on the Summit Slack channel around people proposing sessions for the 2018 Summit. I thought an explanation of how we put the agenda together would be useful for anyone thinking about submitting sessions.
First off though – if you’re thinking about submitting a session for the 2018 Summit then JUST DO IT! We are reserving a number of sessions for new speakers, as we always do. One of our goals for the Summit is to nurture the next generation of speakers. What better way to learn to speak about PowerShell than in front of the world’s greatest PowerShell audience. There is a balancing act between nurturing new speakers and having “big name” established speakers that we know will help draw an audience to the Summit.
The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit 2018 will be returning to the Meydenbauer center, Bellevue WA on 9-12 April 2018. PowerShell, and DevOps, experts from all over the world, including PowerShell team members, will once again join together to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. The Summit’s also the place to explore and further your knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment, make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues. If you want to share your PowerShell or DevOps expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!
