If you’re planning to attend PowerShell Summit North America 2015, to be held at the end of April 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina, you should read the following important information:
The registration site will be open from 30 October 2014 to 30 March 2015. There is about a 30-day window from the end of registration to the event itself. There are no exceptions to this cutoff.
You should read the extremely important information about registering. It also contains links to the agenda and to the registration site.
The agenda will be available in mid-October 2014.
We will only have about 90 seats available due to the size of the venue. You will probably need to plan to register early, because we don’t have a magical way of making the building bigger to accommodate “just one more person.”
We will not be holding seats for later registrations. Everything becomes available on 30 October 2014. We’ve done the “phased release” before and it was a major PITA.
Yes, we will be recording all sessions and posting them on the PowerShell.org YouTube channel. We will not be live-streaming because the facilities don’t exist to do so. Recordings will include slides/demos and a room microphone; this will not be Channel 9-quality, but it should get the job done. Or you could, you know, show up at the live event.
If you are planning to have someone in your organization register and pay on your behalf, it is crucial that they do so
using your e-mail address
, not theirs. Otherwise, we may not be able to admit you to the event. **
This is a big deal.
**Please don’t mess it up. **
Please help us get the word out.
** This is entirely a community event, run entirely by volunteers who are paying their own way to the event also. We have zero marketing and advertising budget, because we try to keep the overall costs as low as humanly possible. Set reminders to tweet, Facebook, etc. once a month and help us let the world know about the event.
This is the last call for attendee registration for the European PowerShell Summit 2014. The Summit is in Amsterdam - 29 September to 1 October 2014. Details from the events page https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/. Due to a change in circumstances beyond our control we have to close public registration on 10 September 2014. If you contact us by 10 September and ask to be able to perform a funds transfer rather than paying on line you have until 15 September 2014 to complete that transaction. No monies or registrations will be accepted after 15 September. We will not accept any new request for paying by money transfer after 10 September. Apologies for the change in dates (the web site states registration is open until 15 September) but our hands have been forced on this. There are still a number of places available so please register quickly if you want to attend. The more attendees we have the better chance we have of staging a European PowerShell Summit in 2015.
We’re hoping that everyone attending the PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 will join our Monday evening **DSC Hackathon, **where we’ll become “product team members for a night” and try to code up some DSC Resources from the team’s own internal wish list! We’ll provide a cash bar as well as finger food for our on-site attendees… but you’re welcome to participate remotely, too! Sometime on September 29th, watch PowerShell.org for a posting that includes the challenges. Choose your challenge, and follow the blog post instructions to submit them. We’ll also include details for participating live via IRC and other chat mechanisms, and we may be able to do a live room-cast via Lync or something. There are no winners and no losers - only the _entire community _wins, because completed entries will be added to the PowerShell.org GitHub repo and made available to the world, for free. But, coders who complete a resource will receive public recognition, both here on PowerShell.org and in some other very visible venues! Here’s what you’ll need to participate:
There are just over two weeks left for you to register for the European PowerShell Summit. At the moment we are still short of the number that would enable us to repeat a European Summit in 2015. We had a lot of comments from people stating they wanted a Summit in Europe. Now is the time to step up and support that idea. Hope to see you there
There seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the European PowerShell Summit as the site will tell you that registration is currently unavailable. There isn’t a problem and the Summit HAS NOT sold out at this time. WE just haven’t opened registration yet. Registration will open on 15 July 2014 .
Aaron Hoover was kind enough to webcam the Summit sessions he attended, and he’s posted the videos on YouTube. URLs, from Aaron’s channel, are below. Just Enough Admin - Security in a Post-Snowden World - Jeffrey Snover - PowerShell Summit 2014
Windows System Internals with PowerShell - Adam Driscoll - PowerShell Summit 2014
PowerCLI: How to Automate Your VMWare Environment Reports - Matt Griffin - PowerShell Summit 2014
Parallel Execution with PowerShell - Tome Tanasovski - PowerShell Summit 2014
The PowerShell Summit is the number one place where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. Experts from all over the world including MVP’s, Guru’s, and PowerShell team members, join together for a few days to discuss and learn how to maximize using PowerShell in the workplace. And now the PowerShell Summit is coming to Europe. PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 will be held September 29, 30, and October 1 at the Hotel Park in Amsterdam, Holland. https://powershell.org/community-events/summit/powershell-summit-europe/ If you want to share your PowerShell expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection! **Topic Areas – What we are looking for ** We are looking for 45-minute presentations covering a wide aspect of PowerShell expertise. We have three main topic areas that may assist you in building an abstract. • PowerShell Internals – A deep look into the inside workings of PowerShell and practical solutions that are built from them. These presentations are more focused on the PowerShell development community that is building extensions and solutions relating to PowerShell. • PowerShell in Production – These presentations are focused on domain specific PowerShell solutions for IT Pro’s such as managing Exchange, System Center, IIS, SharePoint, VMware and more. • PowerShell Features Deep Dive – These presentations are a deep look into configuring and working with PowerShell features and capabilities such as PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell Web Access, Reporting and more. We are open to presentations across the entire ecosystem that has been built around PowerShell; so don’t hesitate to send an abstract for your particular area of expertise. And don’t think, “oh, I can’t do a presentation!” We aren’t looking for Toastmasters winners – we’re looking for folks to be a part of the community! Take the leap and present! Each session is only 35 minutes, with 10 minutes for Q&A! Presentation submissions – What you should send to us Presentations will be 45-minutes in length (planning for 30-40 minutes of material and 5-15 minutes of Q&A) and the submission should include the following: • Presentation Title • Presentation abstract – a description of the presentation and the topics covered. 100 words or less and suitable for marketing. • 50 word biography You can submit multiple presentations in the same topic area or for different ones. What you get if you present The European Summit is working to a very tight budget as this is the first time we are running it. Compensation for speakers will be free admission (not free Association for Windows PowerShell Professionals membership, https://powershell.org/association-for-windows-powershell-professionals, just free admission, which includes food). We will not reimburse hotel, expenses, or travel. It’s important that speakers not register for the conference, because we will not be refunding you if you do that. The financial situation may change to a certain degree if the event sells out but we can’t cover all of your expenses as a speaker and we can’t make any guarantees at this stage. We also ask that you help publicize the event. Presentation submission deadline – When you should send it by Start sending your presentation submissions immediately! The selection committee will start selecting presentations as soon as they arrive so you don’t want to miss out. The last day we will accept presentation submissions will be May 23, 2014. Send your proposals to cft2014eu@powershell.org. Please either put multiple proposals in a Word doc, or send just one proposal in the body of an email, so that we can track these more easily. When you will know you’ve been selected The selection committee will start reviewing submissions immediately and begin the selection process. You will be informed if one or more of your presentations have been selected and sent a contract on or before June 14, 2014. You will need to return the signed contract by June 21, 2014. The final agenda will be announced early July and posted on PowerShell.Org. We look forward to your submissions and your help in making PowerShell Summit Europe 2014 your most valuable IT/Dev conference of the year!
Our IndieGoGo Campaign is off to an amazing start, raising over $6,300 (including some offline donations) toward our ultimate $9,000 goal. So far, we’ve raised enough to ensure we can record two tracks of Summit content - enabling us to record speakers’ laptops and voice, and to post the videos on YouTube, for free. Meeting our full $9,000 goal will enable three tracks of recordings, which is what the North American show currently produces. The equipment we’re investing in will also support, should we choose to add it, an analog camera input and automatic picture-in-picture, meaning we can later add-on to include video of the speaker(s) as well as what’s on their laptop. This equipment also meets an important set of goals for us: It requires no software on speaker laptops (often problematic), and it’s operated - literally - by a single big, red, lighted button. Meaning, it’s easy to use and shouldn’t interfere with the live audience’s experience. I’m personally humbled by the generosity of our community. While larger donations are being considered “share purchases” in PowerShell.org, Inc., these contributors are essentially getting nothing in return for their money - but they’re making something possible that will benefit _everyone. _Making this content permanently available, for free, will become a treasure trove of valuable information _forever. _I can’t express my gratitude enough. Tell a colleague, tell a friend: Every donation helps, no matter how small. And thank you, thank you, thank you.
We’re often asked if the PowerShell Summit sessions will be recorded or live-streamed. The answer, so far, has been “no,” because the equipment needed to do so gets expensive. But we’re willing to give it a go - with crowd funding. Check out our IndieGoGo campaign, where you can contribute to making session recordings a reality - forever. We’ve got about 30 days to reach our goal. So if recorded sessions are important to you - now’s the time to put your money where you mouth is!! Fingers crossed!
