Merge pull request devopsdays#381 from steinim/oslo-2016

New proposals for Oslo 2016

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content/events/2016-oslo/proposals/Opening_Open_Source_with_DevOps.md

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+date = "2016-05-17:14:21-07:00"
+type = "talk"
+title = "Opening Open Source with DevOps"
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+**Abstract:**
+DevOps has made great strides across the software world, but not yet in open-source. In this talk we'll look at real-world examples of how DevOps tools have been used to simplify setup, development and deployment in a selection of open-source projects, and learn how you too can use DevOps to make open-source more open, for everybody.
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+**Speaker:**
+Tim Perry is a tech lead and the open-source champion at Softwire, a bespoke software development company in London, Bristol and Bucharest. He's also the creator of Build Focus, a contributor to a huge range of open-source tools across the JS, Java and C# ecosystems, and the maintainer of Loglevel and Server Components.
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content/events/2016-oslo/proposals/Reaping_the_rewards_of_remote-friendly_DevOps.md

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+date = "2016-05-18:14:21-07:00"
+type = "talk"
+title = "Reaping the rewards of remote-friendly DevOps"
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+**Abstract:**
+This talk will discuss some of the difficulties and benefits of being a remote worker on a DevOps team. I will tell the story of my experience of being a DevOps Engineer at Rackspace, fully remote, for the last 3 years. I will also talk about how I have been living the digital nomad lifestyle since January of 2016, as a participant in the Remote Year program, living and working with 75 remote workers across three continents, in a different city each month. With these two narratives, I will present tips & tricks, share failures & successes (especially how contributing to open source has been useful as a remote worker), and give attendees a list of concrete takeaways they can use to work smarter, work remotely, and be successful.
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+**Speaker:**
+Martin B. Smith: It's one thing to say you want to make the world a better place, but as an engineer I feel I have an opportunity to put those words into action. With over 15 years of experience in infrastructure automation, software development, and systems administration for large scale public cloud providers and top public universities, my mission is to solve for real-world business problems with technical solutions that scale.
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+For me, it's important to share the lessons I've learned with local technical communities, particularly by mentoring minority college students in STEM fields. I strongly believe in open source and actively contribute to automation projects like Chef. When I’m not writing a technical talk or reviewing pull requests, I enjoy traveling the world, sharing my skills with other like-minded professionals who want to make the world more awesome. I encourage you to contact me at @martinb3 on Twitter.
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