The DevOps Collective (the nonprofit that owns PowerShell.org) is organized into two main governing bodies. Our Directors - myself, Christopher Gannon, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Richard Siddaway, and Will Anderson - run the organization on a day-to-day. On Board, which we’re now forming, consists of stakeholders who help advise us on directions, priorities, and so on. We want our Board to be diverse, and include representation from industry as well as community. This is a fairly convention nonprofit governance setup; you’ll find, for example, many Chambers of Commerce organized this way. “Community” has been the bit we’ve struggled with, and so we’ve decided to simply put it to the community to help come up with an answer. We’d like two “at-large” seats, filled by community members on a rotating (annual) basis. The responsibilities are not huge: mainly, we’ll have a virtual meeting once or twice a year to cover our current activities and discuss priorities. On an ongoing basis, the Board is also a way for outside concerns to have a voice within the organization. For our community seats, we want people who are actively engaged with the community on a daily basis. We want to know what’s happening out there with the people who actually use PowerShell, and who are participating in DevOps. We want to be aware of what’s going on in the OSS world, and where we, as an organization, might be able to assist. So if that’s you, reach out to me. Drop an email to DonJ (and the domain is listed right in the address bar of your browser right now). If you know of someone, please reach out to them and have them send me an email. I’d like to know a bit about you, how you’re present in the community on an ongoing basis, and some ideas you have for what The DevOps Collective should be focusing its time and funding on (especially educationally, as that’s our main mission). I look forward to hearing from you!
As announced at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017, we’re preparing a “PowerShell Saturday Booster Program” to help launch and support local one-day events. Please visit https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/powershell-saturday/wiki to take a look at our draft materials, and use GitHub’s “Issues” feature to submit questions, suggestions for additional content, requests for clarification, and so on. We’ll continue to build this out, but want to make sure we’re doing so in a way that makes sense to the community. Thanks for your input! Our goal is to have this up and running by the end of June, 2017.
We’ve had to move a few sessions around for various reasons. The online agenda at https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 shows the current final agenda. Please check the agenda carefully to ensure you don’t miss any sessions
There are currently three (3) seats left for the 2017 PowerShell and DevOps Summit. First come first served - when they gone that’s definitely it as we’re at capacity. Registration at - https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017
We sold the last seat for the 2017 Summit - https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 yesterday. If, and its a very big if, more seats become available we’ll notify you though the event web site and here on powershell.org
Seats a the PowerShell Summit - https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 – are going fast. We’ve sold over 70% of the seats – they’re current 55 seats left split between 4-day and 3-day passes. The 3-day passes don’t go on sale until 12 February and we’ll be moving 3-day to 4-day as sales happen between now and then. We have a number of sales in the pipeline that will reduce the number of available seats as well. We are at maximum capacity for the venue – and probably for the event in its present format. We are expecting a rapid sell off of the remaining seats when open registration of 3-day passes. We don’t maintain any sort of waiting list and when the seats are gone – they’re gone. If you are thinking of attending the 2017 Summit I’d advise you to get your seat booked quickly – I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we’d sold out by the end of February.
We are continually evolving the content we present at the PowerShell Summit. This year we’re bringing back something that was a feature of the early PowerShell Deep Dives and Summits - the Community Lightning Demos. We have a session set aside on Wednesday afternoon for this. Timescales will depend on the number of people wanting to show something. In the words of PowerShell MVP Warren Frame who’s organising this for us:
The agenda for next year’s Summit is almost complete - we’ve notified all speakers as to whether their sessions have been accepted or not. If you haven’t received your notification please check your spam/junk mail. We have a small number of sessions yet to publish - mainly around possible focus groups on the Wednesday afternoon. To view the agenda go to the Summit event site - from https://powershell.org/summit/ click on the Brochure and registration link. Registration opens 1 November 2016.
Hello, PowerShellers! During our migration and some of the inevitable database resets involved, many of you who were receiving notifications for new forums topics no longer are. You’ll need to re-subscribe. To do so, simply visit the Forums page, click through to the forum(s) of your choice, and poke the “Subscribe” link that’s towards the upper-left-ish of the page. If all you see is an “Unsubscribe” link, then you’re already good to go. Thanks again for everyone who routinely jumps in to offer friendly, helpful advice in the forums!!!
