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The third devopsdays Minneapolis, held July 20-21 2016 at the Hilton Minneapolis, was a balancing act between explosive growth and continuing what worked from 2014 and 2015. We’re delighted to let you know that the survey results seem to indicate that participants liked it!

We had about 700 people attend the event. (For comparison, 2015 had about 350 and 2014 had about 250.) 133 people filled out the post-event survey. (30.8% were also at devopsdays MSP 2015 and 15.8% at devopsdays MSP 2014.) Every year we have between 8% and 11% of registered attendees not show up. This year the attrition was closer to 8%, probably because we offered full refunds until the final weekend before the event; the official registration total was 763 people. 88.6% of survey respondents said they live and/or work in the greater Twin Cities area.

Attendees listening to talk
Photo by Nell Alt

Diversity and inclusion are important to the organizers, and many attendees said that was their favorite thing about the conference (in person, on Twitter, and in the survey). Of those who replied to the survey, 29% considered themselves to be members of a group under-represented in technology. We estimate that about 18.4% of those attending the conference were women. As for the demographics of our speakers, we featured 58.8% women speakers with 62.5% women presenting the 30-minute sessions; 35.3% of all speakers were people of color with 25% of the 30-minute sessions presented by people of color. We’re thrilled at what great talks everyone gave, and since Joe Laha turned the videos around quickly, you can watch them and see for yourself!

The explosion of devopsdays events in recent years is exciting for everyone in the community. Some of us have been in this space since before the first event in Ghent, while others are joining with the newest events coming online in 2015. In the last year we’ve added new global core organizers, seen the originator of devopsdays (Patrick Debois) move into an advisory role, and been thrilled by rapid expansion in the numbers and locations of events.

The first DevOpsDays Barcelona is scheduled for October 10th and 11th of 2013, registration is currently open, and of course we already made the call for papers available for all of you, who want to participate not only as a atendee on the event.

If you register for the event before September 2nd, using the coupon WELOVEDEVOPS you will get a 15% discount on your tickets, so what are you waiting for?.

The first DevOpsDays Paris is scheduled for 18-19 April 2013, and while this blog post is a little late to the game, it’s not yet too late for you to participate either as an attendee or a speaker.

For those interested in attending, we’re offering a 25% discount on tickets through the end of this week (17 March 2013) - just use the “WELOVEDEVOPS” code and you’re all set.

If you’re more interested in speaking, the Call for Proposals is still open until 20 March 2013, so don’t hesitate - submit your proposal today! Of course, all of the proposals are available for your persual at any time.

In case you hadn’t noticed yet .. Devopsdays Rome is on again ..

And here’s the list of speakers

• You can't change culture, but you can influence behavior and behavior becomes culture. - Damon Edwards
• Failure is the new Success - Peter Halacsy
• The State of Open Source Monitoring: The good, the bad, the fucking terrible, and a glimpse into our future. - Jason Dixon
• Monitoring data.fao.org - Bryan Berry
• Metrics Driven Develpment - Mantas Klasavicius
• DevOps - One small step for business-IT alignment, one giant leap for infrastructure culture - Mark Burgess
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PaaS - Colin Humphreys
• Beyond Continuous Delivery - Chris Hilton

There are still some hours left to get your ticket at the Early Bird rate

For the upcoming DevOpsDays in Mountain View we’re looking to create t-shirts based off of your design. We’re going to run a design submission period, followed by a brief rating period. The design with the most votes will get printed on the back of the Devopsdays 2011 - Mountain View event shirt. How cool is that?

Details

In order to make the voting period safe, we’ll be collecting submissions up to Midnight PDT on May 15th. Once we have all submissions we’ll create the voting apparatus at DevOpsDays.org - where interested people can vote on their favorite design. We will close the design voting period out at Midnight PDT on May 31st - and give the design to our printer.

Announcing the 2011 DevOps Days - Mt. View

What started in Ghent in 2009 and has travelled the world from Sydney to Sao Paulo to Boston is now coming BACK to Mountain View! That’s right, following on the heels of an awesome 2-day event in Boston DevOps Days is rolling into town to cap off the Velocity Conference.

This will be the seventh official DevOps Days event and it’s sure to be a grand one.

Another year, another devopsdays! This time in the marvelous city of Boston.

On 7 and 8 March 2011, we are organizing a new devopsdays. It will be a two event with conference talks in the morning and openspaces in the afternoon.

It is kindly hosted by the Microsoft NERD Center

You can contribute in one of the following ways:

1. Propose a session for the conference talks: it will be a 45 minute session where you can talk about the next big things happening in devops land, you’re reflections on devops (good and bad), the experiences you want to share. For a detailed description see our call for presentations
2. Propose a lightning talk: If you have a strong devops related message that you really want to share with the DevOps world, we encourage you to send us a proposal for an Ignite presentation. These are 5 minute talks with 20 slides which auto-advance. If you aren’t familiar with the format, google is your friend (and I won’t question your geek cred… cough maybe you’ve just been busy… go check some out, we’ll still be here when you get back. ) The only rule is don’t give a straight pitch. That’s not even a rule we’ll enforce, everyone will just think you are lame… that is punishment enough.
3. Register and show up: One of the success factor of previous devopsdays is the openspace-format: it fosters the sharing of ideas and insights in good old fashion, non-technical way by just talking to each other. Last time it even got people who would normally never talk, into the conversation. This doesn’t require any effort besides registering and showing up at the event.
4. Sponsor the event: We really like to keep the devopsdays a low budget maximum pleasure thing. Therefore we actively seek sponsors to make this happen. In return we hope to make it valuable for you to sponsor.

Hope to meet you at the devopsdays in Boston!

Source: The ElectriClerk

Agradecendo a ajuda do Daniel Cukier, temos o prazer de anunciar para vocês que um novo devopsdays está chegando. Dia 4 de dezembro de 2010, todos os devops vão para São Paulo - Brazil - Rua Arabé, 71 - Vila Clementino - perto do metrô Santa Cruz . Será um evento de um dia cheio de discussão, parecido com o programa do devopsays US Se você tem alguma ideia de discussão ou apresentação, sinta-se a vontade para enviar sua proposta para nós. With many thanks to Daniel Cukier we're proud to announce you a new devopsdays coming up ... On 4 december 2010, all you samba rocking devops will have to head over to Brazil - Sao Paulo - Rua Arabé, 71 - Vila Clementino - near metrô Santa Cruz . This will be a one day event full of discussion and will be similar to devopdays US program If you have an idea for discussion or presentation, feel free to propose it by mailing us