DevOpsDC Monthly Meetup

Join us for our monthly DevOpsDC Meetup

• 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, and eat

• 7:00 - 7:15 - Introductions and Announcements

• 7:15 - 8:45 - Presentations, discussions, etc.

Little Mistakes that Cost Big - Lessons Learned in Providing Open Source Software Julka Grodel (@jgrodel (https://twitter.com/jgrodel)) - Let’s get real and talk about bad code, bad feature decisions, and embarrassing moments — in the hope that you will make smarter decisions. Three million downloads, 90 releases; it’s been a roller coaster and boy have we’ve learned a lot about providing plugins to the WordPress community. We’ll talk about some particularly bad coding mistakes, unreadable coding practices, managing changing feature sets & community expectations, and touch on a couple of strategies that we’ve used to turn things around, increase our footprint and nearly double our main plugin’s rating. Some of this talk will be very technical, some not at all.

Lean Coffee: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting (http://leancoffee.org). Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Bring your pressing question, or brilliant idea, and run it by the rest of us.

• 8:45 - 9:00 - Networking

We are always looking for speakers (https://github.com/devopsdc/devopsdc/blob/master/speakers.md), sponsors (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/pages/DevOps_DC_Meetup_Sponsorship_Opportunities/), and hosts (https://github.com/devopsdc/devopsdc/blob/master/hosts.md). Checkout the links or our GitHub repository (https://github.com/devopsdc/devopsdc) for additional details!

We value the participation of each member of the community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. To make clear what is expected, all delegates/attendees, speakers, exhibitors, organizers, and volunteers at any DevOpsDC event are required to conform to our Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/pages/Code_of_Conduct/).