Creating DevOps Communities and Events With Andy Burgin, Dustin Collins, and Nathen Harvey
Posted on Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015
Show Notes
Matt spends the entire episode claiming that Nathen was famous for being on ADO11, when in fact it was ADO14.
Check Outs
Nathen
- If you’re at a big conf, find the locals and do a mini meetup onsite
- DevOpsDays Podcast
- Public post mortems
Andy
- charlesproxy.com
- John Leech - Nagios Song
- TechnologyUG Leeds Event
Dustin
- ContainerDays NYC - Oct 29-30 - Docker Docker Docker
- Downtown NYC Tech is meeting Oct 28 - Boyd Hemphill/Docker in production
- CMXHub - Good articles/videos on community building
- Jenkins Job DSL - Conjur repo w/ jobs for example
Trevor
- Agents of Shield Season 3
- Surface Book, Nexus 6P <3 gadgets
Matt
- Classy Little Podcast
- Doctor Who LEGO set (Bridget told us about it, how did she know about it and we didn’t?)
- CHICAGO CUBS CHECK THEM OUT YO!!! BUZZ SAW!!!
Guests
Andy Burgin
Andy has worked in the “digital” industry in Leeds since 1994, he has a range of skills from development, infrastructure, operations and project management. Andy is the founder of the LeedsDevops group which been running for 2 years and is attracting large crowds and speakers from a range of local and national devops players. He’s recently presented an ignite at DevopsDays Paris on running a Devops meetup group.
Dustin Collins
Dustin is a developer that saw the light. As organizer for the Boston DevOps meetup, he is most interested in helping technical people level up and have a bigger voice in their organizations. By day, Dustin is the developer advocate for Conjur, a security startup.
Nathen Harvey
VP of Community Development at Chef, helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef platform. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, continuous delivery, and high velocity organizations. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps. He is also an occasional farmer who loves eggs and actively supports #hugops.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
Trevor Hess
Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.
Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.
Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.
