Hello,

I am glad to announce speakers for our first meet hosted by The Guardian.

We will meet at their shiny new offices in Kings Cross to start at 7pm, those who went to
Scale Camp will know the venue.

We have two talks of roughly 30 minutes each lined up:

• Stephen Nelson-Smith will do a talk about the Git Source Code Management system
• Jon Topper will talk about Zabbix monitoring

We will have some time for a few lightning talks if there’s any interest before retiring to a nearby pub. If anyone has Pub suggestions please send them along.

Map and details can be found as usual at http://londondevops.org/meetings/

Thanks again to The Guardian for the venue, if anyone out there want to sponsor some sodas or something for at the venue please get in contact.

I will try to set up some RSVP system, if you mention the meet on twitter please use the #ldndevops hashtag!

In the mean time The Guardian has offered us a regular venue at their big auditorium where the London Scale Camp was held. This is an excellent venue setup with projectors and everything. We could get it every month but I figured we’ll keep the talks bi-monthly and do drinks night or just something social on the other nights. There are several pubs around the Guardian so we’ll do drinks after the 1 or 2 talks a night.

The upcoming dates – excluding the pure pub nights are then:

02/03/2010 7pm – Agile Systems Administration at London Geek Nights – thanks to Thoughtworks
28/04/2010 7pm – Topic TBA – thanks to The Guardian for the venue
30/06/2010 7pm – Topic TBA – thanks to The Guardian for the venue
27/10/2010 6pm – Topic TBA – thanks to The Guardian for the venue
29/12/2010 6pm – Topic TBA – thanks to The Guardian for the venue

Put them in your calendars and again massive thanks to The Guardian for sponsoring us.

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.