[mhvlug] [ANNOUNCE] MHVLUG Meeting - Wednesday, October 2nd at 6 pm

[sean]

Mid Hudson Valley Linux and Open Source Users Group Follow Us MHVLUG is proud to announce our October meeting: Software Engineering 2.0 In the last 5 months the OpenStack project has landed 7000 patches from nearly 700 different contributors. Over 550 developers have contributed to the tens of thousands of code reviews needed to land these patches. All in a source base that's 1M lines of python code. After 3 years as a project, OpenStack is approaching the level of activity of the Linux Kernel. How can a project grow that fast, onboard that many developers, and yet still have coherent releases that ship on time? By a fusion of the best lessons learned from Open Source development, from Agile Software development, and a few new tricks of our own. All rolled together I call this Software Engineering 2.0. This talk is going to give some background on OpenStack, the challenges of a rapidly growing project, and how we've addressed those in both tooling and process. You'll learn about code review; preemptive continuous integration; and how testing clouds, on clouds, with clouds, is fun, and not nearly as confusing as you'd imagine. Everything we've created for OpenStack is open source in it's own right, so you can directly apply some of these techniques to your own projects. This also gives a more modern view of where Software Engineering is headed. Sean Dague is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Linux Technology Center, and the Founder and President until deposed of MHVLUG. Lightning Talks Sign up for some! Before the main talk we will do a series of lightning talks (up to 3), each 10 minutes or less, on something Open Source related. It could be a fun new program, a book, a blog post, or really anything you think the wider MHVLUG community would find some interest in. People that have posted their talk subject to the website in advance have priority. Time permitting, we'll also take impromptu lightning talks from the floor. The meeting space opens up at 5pm for pre meeting general discussion, question asking, show and tell, and setup. All are welcome to join. If you are planning on using the projector for your lightning talk, please arrive at 5:30 to ensure we can work out any kinks with the projector prior to the meeting. The meeting will take place at Rockefeller Hall 300, Vassar College on Wednesday, October 2nd at 6 pm. All meetings are free and open to the public, and everyone from all levels of expertise and interest in Linux and Open Source Software are encouraged to attend (and bring a friend or two)! After each meeting ends everyone is welcome to join in on an informal dinner gathering at the Palace Diner on Washington St. This is a great opportunity to interact with members of the local Linux community, and a forum where questions and comments are strongly welcomed. For more details, including maps and directions, please see the meeting page. Show your support for MHVLUG by RSVPing at our Meetup Page.

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