The first DevOpsDays Paris is scheduled for 18-19 April 2013, and while this blog post is a little late to the game, it's not yet too late for you to participate either as an attendee or a speaker.

For those interested in attending, we're offering a 25% discount on tickets through the end of this week (17 March 2013) - just use the "WELOVEDEVOPS" code and you're all set.

If you're more interested in speaking, the Call for Proposals is still open until 20 March 2013, so don't hesitate - submit your proposal today! Of course, all of the proposals are available for your persual at any time.

In case you hadn't noticed yet .. Devopsdays Rome is on again ..

And here's the list of speakers

• You can't change culture, but you can influence behavior and behavior becomes culture. - Damon Edwards
• Failure is the new Success - Peter Halacsy
• The State of Open Source Monitoring: The good, the bad, the fucking terrible, and a glimpse into our future. - Jason Dixon
• Monitoring data.fao.org - Bryan Berry
• Metrics Driven Develpment - Mantas Klasavicius
• DevOps - One small step for business-IT alignment, one giant leap for infrastructure culture - Mark Burgess

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PaaS - Colin Humphreys
• Beyond Continuous Delivery - Chris Hilton

There are still some hours left to get your ticket at the Early Bird rate

http://devopsdays.org/events/2012-italy/registration/

so don't wait too long !

For the upcoming DevOpsDays in Mountain View we're looking to create t-shirts based off of your design. We're going to run a design submission period, followed by a brief rating period. The design with the most votes will get printed on the back of the Devopsdays 2011 - Mountain View event shirt. How cool is that?

Details

In order to make the voting period safe, we'll be collecting submissions up to Midnight PDT on May 15th. Once we have all submissions we'll create the voting apparatus at DevOpsDays.org - where interested people can vote on their favorite design. We will close the design voting period out at Midnight PDT on May 31st - and give the design to our printer.

Note, based on feedback from previous events we're going to go with black/dark-colored t-shirts. Please ensure your designs accommodate.

Submit an Idea

Even if you're not a great artist, you can still think of a great tagline !

Submit your idea here

Submitting A design

Please use this template when you submit your design to us - along with full-scale artwork.

Questions/Comments

If you have any questions please email us at proposals-mountainview-2011@devopsdays.org with any concerns/comments.

Examples of T-shirts

Announcing the 2011 DevOps Days - Mt. View

What started in Ghent in 2009 and has travelled the world from Sydney to Sao Paulo to Boston is now coming BACK to Mountain View! That's right, following on the heels of an awesome 2-day event in Boston DevOps Days is rolling into town to cap off the Velocity Conference.

This will be the seventh official DevOps Days event and it's sure to be a grand one.

Save the date

The event will take place June 17th and 18th. That's a Friday and Saturday. If you're going to be in town for Velocity (or you want to come out specifically for DevOps Days) you don't want to miss this.

Especially if you're going to Velocity, the DevOps Days format is a great way to interact with people that you might not have had otherwise. If you've never been, think of it as the Hallway track on steroids. There's no reason NOT to stay the extra two days and come experience something that could literally change your professional life.

The format

No two DevOps Days are alike. They're like Pokemonm, 'gotta attend em all!'.

Special care is taken to tailor the event format as a whole to fit the particulars of, not only the location and the audience, but also to the state of DevOps at the time.

The 2011 Mountain View event is no exception. Where as last year was a 1 day event, we're going for two days this year. Because of the days of the week involved, we're mixing things up a bit (subject to a bit of change):

• Friday June 17

  This will be similar to the event last year in that we plan on having panel discussions. We're also adding a few tricks we picked up from past events, including Boston this year:

  • Ignite talks
  • Openspace (proposal period)

  Ignite talks are a rockin' good time. You get 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about a topic. Oh, did we mention your slides auto-advance?

  Open spaces are a great way to tailor the conference to what you want to hear about. Because of the sheer number of people that we expect, we're going to change things up a bit from previous open spaces. Friday will be proposal day while Saturday....

• Saturday June 18

  This will be the day that for the actual open spaces. As with Friday, we're also bringing something along from Boston - Demo Rounds!

  Demo rounds were something that happened quite by accident and organically in Boston. Think of it as an Ignite presentation merged with openspace and a side of The Gong Show/Survivor. Got a cool project, you're working on? Give a demo. If the group likes it and wants you to keep going, you can. The group gets tired? Yield the floor to the next person.

Lessons Learned

There are two reasons for doing two days in Mountain View this year. The first is that two days is becoming the official DevOps Days format. There's simply too much wonderful information to cover that can fit in one day.

The second reason, and one that we think is important enough that we are carrying over into Saturday, is based on experiences last year in Mountain View. Because we're coming off of Velocity, the crowd is simply much larger. We want to fit in as much as possible and keep with some of the basic formats that we've used elsewhere - for instance the open spaces (which are worth the price of admission alone). We simply cannot fit that into one day.

Additionally, again because of the expected crowd size, we're taking special pains to deal with some of the problems from last year. With such a large crowd, it was difficult for everyone to get a chance to interact with the speakers. We're working hard to factor in interaction into all the discussions.

Be there or be square

You don't want to miss this. You'll meet some amazing people, learn lots of cool new stuff but also help shape the future of devops. One theme we're really focusing on hard this year is "Moving the conversation forward". That doesn't mean we won't have discussions around "the basics" but we're ready to take it to the next level.

You have a chance to be a part of that discussion and help shape the face of something that is taking the information technology and business world by storm.

Please join us.

Another year, another devopsdays! This time in the marvelous city of Boston.

On 7 and 8 March 2011, we are organizing a new devopsdays. It will be a two event with conference talks in the morning and openspaces in the afternoon.

It is kindly hosted by the Microsoft NERD Center

You can contribute in one of the following ways:

1. Propose a session for the conference talks: it will be a 45 minute session where you can talk about the next big things happening in devops land, you're reflections on devops (good and bad), the experiences you want to share. For a detailed description see our call for presentations
2. Propose a lightning talk: If you have a strong devops related message that you really want to share with the DevOps world, we encourage you to send us a proposal for an Ignite presentation. These are 5 minute talks with 20 slides which auto-advance. If you aren't familiar with the format, google is your friend (and I won't question your geek cred... cough maybe you've just been busy... go check some out, we'll still be here when you get back. ) The only rule is don't give a straight pitch. That's not even a rule we'll enforce, everyone will just think you are lame... that is punishment enough.
3. Register and show up: One of the success factor of previous devopsdays is the openspace-format: it fosters the sharing of ideas and insights in good old fashion, non-technical way by just talking to each other. Last time it even got people who would normally never talk, into the conversation. This doesn't require any effort besides registering and showing up at the event.
4. Sponsor the event: We really like to keep the devopsdays a low budget maximum pleasure thing. Therefore we actively seek sponsors to make this happen. In return we hope to make it valuable for you to sponsor.

Hope to meet you at the devopsdays in Boston!

The organizers: Vladimir Vuksan, Adam Fletcher , John Vincent , Patrick Debois

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Agradecendo a ajuda do Daniel Cukier, temos o prazer de anunciar para vocês que um novo devopsdays está chegando. Dia 4 de dezembro de 2010, todos os devops vão para São Paulo - Brazil - Rua Arabé, 71 - Vila Clementino - perto do metrô Santa Cruz . Será um evento de um dia cheio de discussão, parecido com o programa do devopsays US Se você tem alguma ideia de discussão ou apresentação, sinta-se a vontade para enviar sua proposta para nós. With many thanks to Daniel Cukier we're proud to announce you a new devopsdays coming up ... On 4 december 2010, all you samba rocking devops will have to head over to Brazil - Sao Paulo - Rua Arabé, 71 - Vila Clementino - near metrô Santa Cruz . This will be a one day event full of discussion and will be similar to devopdays US program If you have an idea for discussion or presentation, feel free to propose it by mailing us

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We are proud to announce you the final program for devopsdays Hamburg. This will be a great lineup of international speakers. We hope you like the mix and come join the discussion live! Hamburg on 15 and 16 October 2010

It's about one year since the first devopsdays 2009 took place in Belgium. Since then we have had successful conference in both Australia and the United States. Now we are back home in Europe. The details for the next devopsdays are: Location: East Hotel in Hamburg/Germany Date: Friday, 15th - Saturday 16th October 2010 (image Source)

We currently have a call for speakers open and hope to finalize the program around 15 of September.
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ve·loc·i·ty rapidity of motion or operation; swiftness; speed.

If you've heard me talk about Agile Infrastucture, or read my personal blog, you might have noticed that I frequently make references to Velocity. When we started planning DevOpsDays US, there was consensus from the beginning to backdraft Velocity.

I have a hard time saying 'DevOps' was born at any one time or any one place, as doing so ignores a large body of individual and organizational work, knowledge and experience, but Velocity has to be considered seminal in the course of the formation and articulation of DevOps ideas and ideals.

Last year, John Allspaw and Paul Hammond gave this unforgettable talk on Dev and Ops cooperation, but that theme was apparent, if not explicit, at the first Velocity conf in '08. I did my best to contribute.

Velocity is all about web application performance and operations. My personal opinion is that much of the innovation and forward pressure we are witnessing in the DevOps ecosystem has come from the crucible of building and managing highly scaled web applications. I also feel like Velocity Conf is an epicenter for the DevOps community of practice.

All of the people organizing DevOpsDays will be at Velocity. Damon and I both have presentations this year and Patrick will be there as an author of a chapter in the new 'Web Operations' book from O'Reilly.

Our panels are sprinkled with Velocity speakers as well:

• Theo Schlossnagle - Scalable Internet Architectures
• Adam Jacob, John Willis - Infrastructure Automation With Chef
• Lee Thompson, Alex Honor - Getting Fast: Moving Towards a Toolchain for Automated Infrastructure
• John Willis, Damon Edwards - The Infrastructure Philharmonic: How Out of Tune are Your Operations?
• Andrew Clay Shafer - Change Management: A Scientific Classification
• John Allspaw - Ops Meta-Metrics: The Currency You Use to Pay For Change

Velocity is a DevOps conference. Register now with a 20% discount: vel10ddd

If you are at Velocity, definitely make a point to say hello. We'll be around. (If you know the DevOps secret handshake, we might have a T-shirt for you.)

Andrew Clay Shafer DevOps Agent Provocateur

P.S. Have something you want to say?

When we first started organizing DevOpsDays for the US, we all had slightly different visions about what we wanted to see and what we wanted to participate in.

On one hand, some of us really wanted to use Open Space Technology as the basis for some if not all of the program, while some of us really wanted to have presentations.
We all wanted to have a 'community' event, but we also wanted to leverage the expertise in that community. We came to realize that on almost any topic, no matter who was presenting, there would often be as much or more expertise in the audience as there could be on the stage. Those experts might have different opinions. We also planned from the beginning to do DevOpsDays right after the Velocity Conference and thought some people might be 'presentationed' out. The best idea we came up with is an experiment.
We're going to have a conference that is all panels and ignite talks. We posted the themes for the panels and we'll soon have the participants and short bios up as well. Audience participation will definitely be encouraged and facilitated as much as possible, but if you believe you or someone you know is 'just perfect' for one of those panels drops us a line and make a case.
If you have a strong devops related message that you really want to share with the DevOps world, we encourage you to send us a proposal for an Ignite presentation. These are 5 minute talks with 20 slides which auto-advance. If you aren't familiar with the format, google is your friend (and I won't question your geek cred... *cough* maybe you've just been busy... go check some out, we'll still be here when you get back. ) Ignite is a fun way to introduce people to ideas and leave them wanting more.
We have 10 slots scheduled right now and half of those are filled, so you still have a good chance to share your ideas. Tell us about tools, processes, tips, tricks, war stories, whatever... make us laugh, make us cry, show us how to be more awesome...
The only rule is don't give a straight pitch. That's not even a rule we'll enforce, everyone will just think you are lame... that is punishment enough.
Send an email to proposals-us-2010@devopsdays.org with the following information

• Title
• Description
• Short Bio
• Why you giving this talk will change the course of history...

Enlighten us, but make it quick!
Registration for DevOpsDays is open, we hope to see you June 25...