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[Paul Larson <paul.larson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't heard much about velocity before and figured others might be
in the same boat. Here's a link if anyone is interested in seeing the
schedule from the last one:
http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013/public/schedule/grid/public-grid


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Evan Dandrea
<evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone? I'll leave this until tomorrow, but if there are no responses
> we'll just have to settle on sprints for 2014.
>
> On 17 December 2013 17:54, Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So I never got replies to the conference attendance email I sent out a
>> while back. Alex raised finalising our event attendance for 2014 in a
>> recent thread and it got me thinking that we missed an opportunity
>> here.
>>
>> I went off and tried to find a conference that would be a good fit for
>> where we're going in the coming year and, after chatting with people
>> who have attended it in the past, I arrived at Velocity.
>>
>> From High Scalability:
>>
>> "Focused on web performance and operations, learn how to make sites
>> scalable, reliable, and fast, which covers a lot of ground. Practical.
>> Attendees indicate they find it useful. 2-3 days."
>>
>> I think this would give us more strength in building for
>> fault-tolerance and scale, while also getting the latest advances in
>> webops (which we kind of are, when you think about our role in
>> managing these services just as much as we write the code for them).
>>
>> I'd like to send two people. One of Larry or Rick (if either of you
>> guys are willing to attend) to get the ops perspective, and a coder to
>> get the architecture perspective.
>>
>> I think any of you would make good candidates, provided you are
>> supremely confident that you can take very good notes to bring back
>> and disseminate to the team. I would also expect you to have lots of
>> hallway conversations with the other attendees on how we can improve
>> our services.
>>
>> I haven't decided which of the locations to send these two people to
>> yet. Santa Clara is June 24–26, 2014 and NYC is September 15–17, 2014.
>> I'm happy to hear arguments for either, but first, who is interested
>> in going?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
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