Since DevOps Days last year a number of us have been meeting monthly, it was all a bit under the radar and not announced to the wider public.
The thinking was that we wanted to be sure we will do the meetings roughly monthly rather than start something with a lot of noise and then fizzle out.
We’ve met 4 months in a row and we figured it’s about time to throw open the doors. We are therefore meeting on the 24th of February 2010 at The Priory Bar, we’ll aim to be there from 6 or 7pm on wards.
We’re trying to create a community of like minded people in London – Sysadmins, Ops People, Developers, Puppet Users, Chef Users we do not discriminate. As long as your interested in Agile Infrastructures or in bridging the gap between the Dev and Ops Silos or just want to hang out with a bunch of Systems guys who aren’t stuck in the 1980s you’re welcome to join us. The basic format we’re aiming for is to meet in a pub/restaurant for Lunch or Dinner one month and every second month to try and arrange some meeting with talks.
Our first actual meeting with talks will be in March at a venue provided by Thought Works so the meeting on the 24th is to discuss what we’ll be up to there. We’ll also be very glad to hear from any companies who would like to offer us some space on a bi-monthly basis for our talks.
While on the subject I should mention an event that is coming up. In March London hosts Q-Con with a track specifically for DevOps and I will be there doing a talk as well as some of our other regular members.
Please help spread the word by tweeting with the #ldndevops hashtag. We’ve created a site at http://londondevops.org/ that aggregates some of the blogs of people who we already know about in London who are operating in this space. Please contact me here in comments or on Twitter @ripienaar to get yourself added.
