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:
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.
I’ve decided to bring #PSBlogWeek back! Brush off those PowerShell blogs and grease up those typing fingers….wait..don’t do that but at least stretch a little bit. If you’d like to write a great article on PowerShell on your blog to help contribute great content and get yourself some notoriety, #PSBlogWeek is how it’s done. For full details, head over to my blog where I’ve outlined everything or head directly over to psblogweek.com for full details!
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!
Automation and scripting has become a major part of IT in recent years. And PowerShell has played a giant role in the progression of that. Every year, the wonderful people at PowerShell.org put on the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, that always produces outstanding results from amazing speakers and attendees.
As many of you in IT know, convincing your manager to attend conferences usually depends on a few key factors: Cost and budget, content, and sometimes, experience or seniority in the company. And unfortunately, that last one may be a deciding factor far too often. This year, PowerShell.org is making it a priority to help extend, not only the content and knowledge that comes with attending the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit, but also the experience that comes along with it.
The planning for Summit 2018 has started – to be honest it started before Summit 2017 opened. We’ve reached the stage where we need to start thinking about the broad topics for PowerShell Summit 2018. What do you want to hear about? Not the session titles, content and speakers but the broad areas of content you want us to include. We can’t actually promise to cover everything requested because we’re dependent on whats submitted when we open our call for topics towards the end of the month. Looking at the agenda for Summit 2017 we had these very broad groups PowerShell tool making DSC and DSC resources PowerShell Github repository PowerShell v6 Remoting Testing - Pester Azure PowerShell Functions JEA PowerShell v6 PowerShell on Linux PowerShell modules Regular Expessions MSDeploy PKI Powershell Jobs, Workflows and runspaces Nano server PowerShell cmdlets - compiled and script Are there any we should drop? Is there a topic we should include – this far out we can commission a specific expert speaker to cover a topic if required. This is your opportunity to help shape Summit 2018. Let us know what you think
