Name: Intro to GitHub Actions – How to easily automate and integrate with GitHub
Start: 2022-09-14T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-14T20:30:00-04:00
Location: SOCO 80808

Our September meetup will focus on an incredibly hot and important topic for developers and technologists of all types - **Introduction to GitHub Actions – How to easily automate and integrate with GitHub**.

Our speaker is Brent Laster, DevOps Director and Trainer at SAS and tech Skills Transformations LLC. Brent will be visiting us from the Research Triangle Park (RTP).

We'll also feature a second shorter "burst" / lightning talk from Charles Daniels of Styra. He'll deliver "rq: Datalog for your shell pipelines".

**Doors open at 6:00 pm, live programing begins at 6:30 pm ET sharp**. We'll begin the evening with a few community announcements, then we'll quickly move to our speaker.

**Location:**
The meetup will take place at the SOCO co-work space. The address is: 808 Lady Street, suite D, Columbia, SC 29201. Here is the website for SOCO - [https://soco-work.com/](https://soco-work.com/). Note, there are two locations for SOCO in Columbia – we are at the Lady Street/Vista location.

\*Lots of swag will be available at this meetup, to include t-shirts, hats, stickers, and some really cool technology. All will be free of charge, as always.

Please note, there will not be a mask mandate in effect, but masks are encouraged for anyone feeling uncomfortable. We'll have masks available free of charge as well - don't hesitate to ask us onsite.

**Speaker #1:**
Brent Laster, DevOps Director and Trainer at SAS and tech Skills Transformations LLC.

**Bio:**
Brent Laster is a global trainer, author, and speaker on open-source technologies, as well as an R&D DevOps director at SAS. He is also the founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations, LLC – a company dedicated to making technology understandable and usable. Throughout his career in software development and management, Brent has always made time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others. He believes that regardless of the topic or technology, there’s no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to accomplish their goals.

**Talk Title:**
Introduction to GitHub Actions – How to easily automate and integrate with GitHub

**Abstract:**
In this talk, open-source author, trainer and DevOps director Brent Laster will provide a solid introduction to GitHub Actions. You’ll learn about the core parts and pieces that make up an action, as well as the types of functionality and features they provide. You’ll also see how to combine them in simple workflows to accomplish basic tasks as well as how they can fit into a CI/CD environment.

**Speaker #2:**
Charles Daniels, Backend Software Engineer, Styra Inc.

**Bio:**
Recent Master's graduate from University of South Carolina, Charles has a research background in high performance and embedded computing. As a new professional, he is focusing on backend software development with Go. Charles has built and participated in multiple open-source software projects.

**Talk Title:**
rq: Datalog for your shell pipelines

**Talk Abstract:**
rq brings the full power of Rego, a Datalog dialect created for Open Policy Agent (OPA) to your shell pipelines. It allows you to easily transform and query data in a variety of commonly used formats using Rego expressions, which allows for concise, general-purpose, performant transformations. This talk discusses the background of OPA and Rego, explains some simple Rego expressions, and demonstrates a few of the capabilities of rq.

**SPONSORS:**
We thank the world-class sponsors making this event possible..
AlmaLinux - [https://almalinux.org/](https://almalinux.org/)
Camunda - [https://camunda.com/](https://camunda.com/)
Fidelity Investments - [https://www.fidelity.com/](https://www.fidelity.com/)

Contact us with questions at **info@allthingsopen.org**
Beverages will be served as will snacks. We will not be serving food (pizza, etc.) until a later date as most are still a little uneasy with food being served in an open environment.

Todd Lewis

Open Source South Carolina

All Things Open RTP and Open Source South Carolina

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