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Our site upgrade and re-theme is going well, and I wanted to outline some of the major changes and current issues. If you’re encountering any lingering issues, please drop a comment; rather than replying, I’ll update the main article.
PowerShell.org will be undergoing upgrading and maintenance on Friday and Saturday. We’ll leave the site open, as Articles and Forums should remain accessible, but the site may look a little rough around the edges at times. The site does use some pretty aggressive caching, so if you’re visiting throughout the day, use a force-reload (Shift+Refresh or whatever in your browser) to pull a fresh set of pages as we work.
We’re looking for a few good PowerShellers to help us keep the community on track!
Richard Siddaway has decided to step away from PowerShell.org and The DevOps Collective. Most recently, Richard has been known for his management of content at PowerShell Summit North America, PowerShell Summit Europe, and later, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. Before that, however, Richard was one of the founders of PowerShell.org way back in 2011-2012, along with myself, Jason Helmick, Kirk Munro, and Jeffrey Hicks. It’s quite fair to say that we all needed one another’s support and expertise very much in those early days, and Richard was particularly key in helping us put together the two European Summit events. Richard’s very much entitled to one of our Community Hero Challenge Coins, which have been awarded to only a small handful of people who have made sustained, long-term community contributions: Jeffrey Snover, Jason Helmick, Angel Calvo, and Kenneth Hansen. Richard’s definitely in rarified company, and it’s well-earned.
I want to introduce you to the new PowerShell.org! While we’re still doing a little test-and-adjust work, I’m pretty confident that everything in the new theme is working. I’d also like to point out some hopefully useful new things we’ve done with the site. First, we’ve still got pretty much everything you’ve been used to - our friendly and helpful Q&A forums, our community-authored articles, and more. Incidentally, if you’d like to be a writer here at PowerShell.
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:
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.
This is the commentary on the last Iron Scripter prequel puzzle: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10 - A commentary Next weekend will mark the start of summit and you can work on the Iron Scripter preludes - 4 daily puzzles as a lead in to the main event on Thursday 12 April 2018. If you haven’t chosen your faction yet you need to hurry
Here’s my commentary for puzzle 9: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 9 - A commentary In this puzzle you were cleaning up the TEMP folder and the recycle bin plus working with scheduled tasks and/or scheduled jobs. One more commentary to come - probably early next week rather than Sunday and then we’re into the Summit and the main event.
Activity on the Iron Scripter forum and Slack channels has reduced for the last few puzzles leading me to believe that I’ve been giving out too many challenges. I’ve decided that this will be the last prequel puzzle: Iron Scripter Prequel Puzzle 10 There won’t be a puzzle 11. Next week I’ll publish the commentary for puzzle 9 and the week after that for puzzle 10 meaning you get 2 weeks for these last 2 puzzles.
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