I haven't heard much about velocity before and figured others might be in the same boat. Here's a link if anyone is interested in seeing the schedule from the last one: http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/public/schedule/grid/public-grid
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone? I'll leave this until tomorrow, but if there are no responses > we'll just have to settle on sprints for 2014. > > On 17 December 2013 17:54, Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So I never got replies to the conference attendance email I sent out a >> while back. Alex raised finalising our event attendance for 2014 in a >> recent thread and it got me thinking that we missed an opportunity >> here. >> >> I went off and tried to find a conference that would be a good fit for >> where we're going in the coming year and, after chatting with people >> who have attended it in the past, I arrived at Velocity. >> >> From High Scalability: >> >> "Focused on web performance and operations, learn how to make sites >> scalable, reliable, and fast, which covers a lot of ground. Practical. >> Attendees indicate they find it useful. 2-3 days." >> >> I think this would give us more strength in building for >> fault-tolerance and scale, while also getting the latest advances in >> webops (which we kind of are, when you think about our role in >> managing these services just as much as we write the code for them). >> >> I'd like to send two people. One of Larry or Rick (if either of you >> guys are willing to attend) to get the ops perspective, and a coder to >> get the architecture perspective. >> >> I think any of you would make good candidates, provided you are >> supremely confident that you can take very good notes to bring back >> and disseminate to the team. I would also expect you to have lots of >> hallway conversations with the other attendees on how we can improve >> our services. >> >> I haven't decided which of the locations to send these two people to >> yet. Santa Clara is June 24–26, 2014 and NYC is September 15–17, 2014. >> I'm happy to hear arguments for either, but first, who is interested >> in going? >> >> Thanks! > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
