[Devops] Next meetup 19.04, Metalab anniversary 28.04

[Anton Bangratz]

On 04/02/2011 06:09 PM, Michael Renner wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 18:56 , Maciej Pasternacki wrote:
> 
> 
>> 2. Right after that, on April 25-30, is Metalab's fifth birthday: 
>> http://metalab.at/wiki/5_Jahre_Metalab .  On Thursday the 28th all 
>> different user groups will be present; yesterday I did a quick 
>> brainstorm with Tony about whether we want to be there (we do), and
>> what do we want to show.
>> 
>> Initial results are: first, we want to be able to quickly explain
>> what devops is about and what do we do in our group. For this we
>> can quickly adapt my lightning talk on "what is devops" from
>> Metaday #36 
>> (http://www.slideshare.net/mpasternacki/devops-lightning-talk) -
>> any other ideas?
> 
> +1
> 
>> Any other ideas for demos? Anything else? Somebody willing to
>> cooperate?
> 
> I wouldn't go too much into details of specific tools/solutions but
> what we can do and how this might look like in the real world. Better
> show how agile infrastructure benefits the enduser/developer/business
> than going to explain the different shades of configuration
> management.

That's a very interesting point of view.

Let me get a bit into details about what is planned for Meta5j:

There will be four days of answering "What?" for all shades of people -
mostly interested 'tech-freaks', but also not-so-much-technological savy
and press people.

The plan (at the moment) is to have small booths and workshops from
1600-1900, lightning talks et al from 1900-later (depending on volume,
interest and day) and other things.

According to the feedback there will be enough time and space for two
things: Wednesday should be showing off tools and stuff (in the
workspace time), then there should be a time for presenting the
social/people aspect of agility in our area of concern, and Thursday
will be dedicated to speed geeking and groups representation.

There was a suggestion to have something ready to repeatedly show tools
as well as having an elevator pitch prepared for speed geeking et al.

The tools part can be covered with little effort, so this would be the
easy part in preparation. The question is - will we have people
interested in tools, or rather in the 'humane' aspect? What can be
presented and shown in those crucial 5-10 minutes, over and over as needed?

Cheers,

t.
-- 
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