So, after our nearly-2-day outage, which was due to a still-not-fully-explained Apache fail, we’re looking to make some changes. We need to migrate PowerShell.org to a different Azure subscription anyway, so this is a good time to change the kind of service we’re using.
First, using Azure is non-negotiable. If your expert opinion is to use something else, please just don’t ;). **Update: **This might be changing. AWS could be an option.
Due to unforeseen circumstances we’re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit.
Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions.
We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days
The deadline for the submission of proposals for the 2017 has passed. We are NOT taking any new submissions. if you’ve been in communication regarding a submission thats fine its still under consideration and I’ll be in touch.
On the positive side the call for speakers for the European PowerShell conference has opened - http://www.powertheshell.com/psconfeu/
With Ignite fast-approaching, here’s what’s up - and this is intended to be a “community post,” meaning I’d love it if you could add your own PowerShell At Ignite notes in the comments, including sessions you’re looking forward to!
On **Sunday evening, **while not officially a PowerShell event, a lot of PowerShell glitterati will be at The Krewe’s annual gathering from 8pm.
On **Monday evening, **the Atlanta PowerShell User Group is kindly hosting a meet-and-greet with myself, Jeff Hicks, and Jason Helmick.
It’s a bit of a sad day at The DevOps Collective, which is the nonprofit that runs PowerShell.org. One of our Board of Directors members, Dave Wyatt, will be stepping down from his Director position this week. He wants to focus on his personal life a bit more, although he’s still going to be responsible for our public Build Service, and he’s going to continue contributing to the Pester project, so the community isn’t losing him entirely.
For those of you that have been at PowerShell Summits over the last few years you’ll have heard Jeffrey Snover state that he wanted to take PowerShell to other platforms.
Now its happened
Jeffrey has announced that an ALPHA release of PowerShell is now available for Linux and Mac. Currently available for Ubuntu, Centos, Red Hat and Mac OS X with more to come
The announcement is at
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux/
Also see PowerShell blog
The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is the number one conference where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. PowerShell, and DevOps, experts from all over the world including MVP’s, community leaders and PowerShell team members, will once again join together for a few days in Bellevue, WA. to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace.
It’s also the place to explore and further your knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment.
We’ve been making a ton of improvements at PowerShell.org… if you haven’t visited in a while, it might be worth a stop by.
**First, **if you’re hitting any of the links below and getting a 404, the most common culprit seems to be an over-zealous corporate proxy cache. Try clearing it, or doing a Shift+Reload in your browser. Confirm by visiting from a non-proxied network, like at home.
Our eBooks page has a bunch of new content, and our books are now available in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB from two providers (LeanPub and GitBook).
I’d appreciate your help in testing HTTPS/SSL here on PowerShell.org. Right now, it’s “voluntary,” meaning you have to explicitly ask for https://powershell.org. If you have any problems, please note them in a comment on this article.
Some notes and known problems:
Most pages will not show the “lock” address bar icon in your browser, because we’re delivering mixed content. For example, the site logo is being hardcoded as http:// by some Javascript in our theme, which I need to sort out.
Putting on an event like the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit involves a lot of planning. We started the planning process for the 2017 Summit BEFORE the 2016 Summit started!
We have to work so far in advance that we’re taking guesses at the topics that will be of high interest next April – remember that we fix the agenda 6 months before the actual Summit.
Part of the process of creating the agenda is that we publish a ‘Call for Proposals’ where we ask potential speakers to submit session proposals.