Title ===== The Inaugural #openinfra Shorties Audience - advanced, beginner, developer, everyone, intermediate ======== everyone Topic ===== Mentoring Tags: #openinfra, #shorties, #contributor, # All ages Speakers: me Primary contact: me Brief description (255 char) ============================ These shorties run open infra projects, and bring short tales of why & how to play in their projects. Short, 5-minute lighting talks range from ethos of open infra to how to start contributing, today, right now, FROM THE AUDIENCE. Short abstract (600 char) ========================= Someone you know, maybe sitting next to you, is addicted to operating open source infra. They believe, "When you run your infrastructure the way you run your open source project, you are practicing #openinfra." On this panel are experts who run infra for well-known projects. In short talks, experienced sysadmins address their choice of topics. They may entice you to join their project. They make you fall in love with software or a practice or a way of mind. They may immerse you in the ethos of #openinfra. They may sing karaoke. The only way to find out what happens is to attend. Long abstract (10000 char) ========================== Someone you know, maybe sitting next to you, is addicted to operating open source infra. They believe, "When you run your infrastructure the way you run your open source project, you are practicing #openinfra." This panel are experts who run infra for well-known projects. In short lightning talks, experienced sysadmins address their choice of topics. They may entice you to join their project. They make you fall in love with software or a practice or a way of mind. They may immerse you in the ethos of #openinfra. They may sing karaoke. The only way to find out what happens is to attend. The panel will keep to a tight cadence in order to allow enough time for questions and discussions following the presentations. You can read more about the community many of these panelists are involved in, https://opensourceinfra.org/ . This group knows from experience that you can have a more robust, useful, and sustainable infrastructure for an open source project by treating all of it the way you do source code, documentation, and so on. For example, modern practices such as configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc.) that make sysadmin lives easier also make it easier for non-admins, developers, interested participants, and aspiring operators to help you with your infra. Throw the config mgmt rules/guides and scripts into a git repository, with secrets/private keys held aside, and you invite more direct participation by anyone from dedicated technologists to drive-by contributors. Message to the reviewers ======================== The idea is to make this a regular SCALE feature -- the format will evolve, but it's a potential tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony and bully pulpit for #openinfra. If you aren't sure we want to make it annual or sound officially sanctioned that way, we can adjust the title or make it more tongue-in-cheek. "Positively the last first annual open infra shorties!" This is designed to be a panel ... and I don't have the panel together yet. I just came up with this idea tonight at the last minute and haven't had time to ask for participation and get commitments. I will start with opensourceinfra.org folks (Elizabeth K Joseph, E Dunham (Rust), Pono (ASF), etc.), then Fedora, Gluster, etc. ... So if you'd consider a panel without named panelists yet, I'll start work right away to get commitments so they can be added in ASAP. This is an extension of my interest and participation in the recent focus on #openinfra amongst a growing community that also are regular SCALE attendees. I suspect there may be other similar discussions proposed by other members of the opensourceinfra.org / #openinfra community. I haven't had the time to ask around. :) If there seem to be anywhere that it would make sense to merge this topic, let's talk about it. I could shorten my approach to share the presentation with some other voices who have walked similar pathways.