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+date = "2016-04-14T11:24:58-05:00"
+title = "About devopsdays"
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+DevopsDays is a technical conference, aimed at developers, sysadmins and anyone else involved in technology, wether expert or beginner.
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+Truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organizes its work. Similar, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API.
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+> Some call this phenomenon **devops**, others **agile system administration**.
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+## Format
+Due to each event being organised by a local team, the format between events may differ, though after so many DevopsDays, it's structure has stabilised and is fairly consistent.
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+Over the span of two days you can expect 3 presentations each morning, ignite talks just before lunch and openspace in the afternoon, as well as a social event on the first evening.
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+The content covers a broad range of topics like methodologies, tools and services, common practices for development and operations, as well as success stories.
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+### Presentations
+Anyone can submit a presentation during the call for papers (which usually lasts until a month before the event), with the submissions being made public on the DevopsDays website. The DevopsDays team chooses 6 presentations from these submissions, based on a number of criteria but also with feedback received via the website.
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+### Ignites
+The ignite talks are a burst of knowledge, lasting for 15 minutes, with slides automatically changing every 15 seconds, and focusing on a specific topic, giving you a quick overview and letting you dig deeper by yourself if interested.
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+Again, ignite talks are submitted in the same manner as the presentations.
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+### Openspace
+The openspace format is a very successful and simple one. An hour before the openspace starts, topics are suggested by all attendees, and also each member votes on what topic they'd like to chat about from the ones suggested.
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+There are 3 open space slots each day, running for 30 minutes, and for each slot, four topics are picked from the ones most voted, and a room (or a circle of chairs) is assigned to each topic. Everyone is welcome to go to whichever they are interested in.