Creating the Next Generation of Techies

Hey, DC, we have a problem! There are simply too many excellent meetup groups to attend each month. Let's get together and have a joint meetup that brings together the best groups focused on sysadmins, operations, and developers. All are welcome!

Ops School (http://www.opsschool.org) is an open-source, community-driven project that was recently launched. Ops School aims to create a complete syllabus for training smart persons with high potential who already have a basic understanding of Linux or other UNIX variant, to become strong junior systems administrators. Avleen Vig (https://twitter.com/avleen) and Patrick McDonnell (https://twitter.com/mcdonnps), engineers at Etsy and leaders in the Ops School project, will be in town to share their thoughts and experience on how we create the next generation of system administrators.

Theo Schlossnagle (http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle) is a serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of OmniTI (http://omniti.com/), Circonus (http://circonus.com/), and more. Theo has written (http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/1449377440) and given presentations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mHo7SMCQk) on career development in the operations world and will join us to share some thoughts on how you can level-up your career.

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet & eat 7:00 - 7:15 - Welcome and Announcements 7:20 - 8:00 - Ops School & Training Sysadmins - Avleen (https://twitter.com/avleen) & Patrick (https://twitter.com/mcdonnps) 8:10 - 8:50 - Career Development - Theo Schlossnagle (https://twitter.com/postwait) 9:00 - 9:30 - Additional networking, socializing, etc.

Want to learn more about Ops School before the meeting?

Ops School Website (http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/) Ops School on Github (https://github.com/opsschool/curriculum) Food Fight Show Hangout - Ops School and Training System Administrators (http://foodfightshow.org/2012/12/ops-school-and-training-sysadmins.html) This is a joint meetup including members from:

Big Data DC (https://www.meetup.com/bigdatadc/) Crabby Admins - LOPSA, Baltimore Chapter (http://crabbyadmins.org/) DC Agile Software Testing Group (DCAST) (https://www.meetup.com/D-CAST/) DC Continuous Integration, Delivery, & Deployment Group (https://www.meetup.com/DC-continuous-integration/) DevOpsDC (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC) LOPSA DC - The League of Professional System Administrators (https://www.meetup.com/lopsadc/) NOVA MySQL (https://www.meetup.com/NOVA-MySQL/) Arlington Ruby (https://www.meetup.com/Arlington-Ruby/) DC Ruby User Group (http://www.dcrug.org/) Would you like your meetup group listed? Contact Nathen (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/members/9746108/), he'll be happy to help.