Summer Operations Conferences

I’ll be at three conferences in quick succession in June, speaking at two of them.

First I’m on a configuration management panel run by James Turnbull at the Open Source Bridge in Portland, OR.  I haven’t been on a multiple-tool panel in a while, so this should be interesting.  I’m also excited to be back in Portland – I absolutely love the town, so much that I’m moving back there this summer.  And for those non-Americans who think we don’t make great beer:  Get thyself to Portland, and see how wrong you are.  I should also be running a Puppet BoF there.

From there I fly down to San Jose to give a workshop on Puppet at the O’Reilly Velocity conference.  This is its second year, and while it claims to have a web operations/performance focus, I think it stands to quickly become the best general operations conference around.  LISA is too academic and just moves too slowly, and there isn’t a whole lot of other competition.

Last year’s was great, and this year’s is a day longer and looks to be even better.

Finally, the day after Velocity, I attend Om Malik’s Structure.  This conference is more focused on operations executives, which is a very different focus for me, but I met a lot of interesting and knowledgeable people there last year, including some from completely outside the technology space.  I normally diss executive events, but this one seems to stand out.

Hopefully you’ll have a chance to track me down at one of these events.