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

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We currently have a call for speakers open and hope to finalize the program around 15 of September.

Are you passionate about devops subjects? Or know someone who is *awesome* in the devops secret sauce?

Share your love with us and with the world!

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?

DevOps: The Elephant In The Room

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…

As we put together an agenda, we are looking to *YOU* to help shape the event.

The best way to ensure that you get the most out of this event is to make a proposal or suggestion about a topic in which you are interested!

For more details check our proposal page.

Check out the presentation and video page.

Enjoy!

Thanks for everyone to participate! It was great, thanks to all the people!

Check out our ‘buzz page‘ to see what people are saying.