Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture

When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture
Moderator: Tom Limoncelli

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o

Summary:

"Low-Context DevOps Culture": a framework for improving team culture to
optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability

Abstract:

"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which Tom
leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.

A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken,
which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a
"remote only"/COVID-19 team.

A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your
job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context
culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project
hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am.
Techniques include: smart defaults, "make the right way, the lazy way",
and documentation at the right time and place.

Bio:

Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an
internatio nally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and
DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement
Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.

Attachments

https://everythingsysadmin.com/

https://www.whatexit.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture

When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture
Moderator: Tom Limoncelli

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o

Summary:

"Low-Context DevOps Culture": a framework for improving team culture to
optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability

Abstract:

"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which Tom
leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.

A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken,
which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a
"remote only"/COVID-19 team.

A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your
job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context
culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project
hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am.
Techniques include: smart defaults, "make the right way, the lazy way",
and documentation at the right time and place.

Bio:

Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an
internatio nally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and
DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement
Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.

Attachments

https://everythingsysadmin.com/

https://www.whatexit.org/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

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Tonight's BLU meeting is being live-streamed now

Doc Searls is giving a talk at toniught's BLU meeting on Self-Sovereignty
and Independence Online.

The meeting is being livestreamed to youtube, at
https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - Doc Searls: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online

When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online
Moderator: Doc Searls

Online Location: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

Summary:

A user-centric model for owning and controlling your identity online

Abstract:

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is new category with dozens of developers,
open source code bases (e.g. Hyperledger Indy), libraries, tools, and at
least one core architecture and data model. But what matters most about
it is that it serves purposes that have motivated free and open source
software developers for decades now: self-sovereignty and personal
independence from surveillance and control by others online.

Doc has been on this case since he became an editor at Linux Journal in
the mid-'90s, and as director of ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Klein
Center since 2006. He also considers the challenge of maintaining
self-sovereignty and personal independence more important than ever, in
our time of normalized—and increasing—corporate and government
surveillance of people's lives, both online and off.

Bio:

Doc Searls is a lifelong journalist who has covered Linux since Linux
Journal began in 1994 (and Linux itself was at v 1.0), and served as an
editor there for 24 years, most recently as editor-in-chief. He is
co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The Intention Economy, a
fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, an alumni fellow of the Berkman
Klein Center at Harvard University (where he continues to direct
ProjectVRM), as well as a visiting scholar at NYU and Indiana
University. He also won the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best
Communicator in 2005.
Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/

About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/

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http://www.blu.org

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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - Doc Searls

When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Doc Searls
Moderator: Doc Searls

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

Summary:

Doc Searls gives a talk on digital privacy

Abstract:

Details to be announced

Bio:

David "Doc" Searls is a journalist, columnist, and a widely read
blogger. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The
Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, Editor-in-Chief of Linux
Journal, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society
(CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus
fellow (2006-2010) of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University.

Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/

About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/

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Livestreaming of tonight's BLU meeting

Live streaming of tonight's BLU meeting has just started. The URL is

https://youtu.be/0SRfxmUxt4A


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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - Short Takes: Birdbox (Raspberry Pi Smart Bird Feeder); Overview of New 900Mhz Networks

When: October 21, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Short Takes: Birdbox (Raspberry Pi Smart Bird Feeder); Overview
of New 900Mhz Networks
Moderators: Seth Elkin-Frankston, Kurt Keville, Bob Frankston and others

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/0SRfxmUxt4A

Summary:

Seth Elkin-Frankston, Bob Frankston, and Kurt Keville discuss some
topics of interest

Abstract:

Seth will look into several scientific linux related topics
Kurt will present an overview of new 900Mhz networks
Bob plans to talk on the CULT of 5G

Steve Herrick has made an interesting video tutorial of Nvidia Digits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaeR17MSLk

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

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