BadCamp

• What is badcamp?
  • 4 days of training, summits, sprints, sessions, BoFs, Jobs, Networking and more!
• When is it?
  • October 24 - 27 / Berkeley, California
• What makes Badcamp special?
  • The peeps (community is awesome)
  • Trainings (are free)
  • Summits (make a large event feel cozy)
  • Networking
  • Free!
• What to expect
  • Fun!
• Locations this year
  • What’s new
    • New Party locations (The Marsh / International House)
    • new Summit Locations (City Club / Anna Head Alumnae hall)
  • What’s old
    • Registration in the same place
    • Sessions in the same place
    • Sponsor Fair in the same place
    • Free cappuccino, vegan doughnuts, etc, in the same place
• Summits
  • What is a summit?
  • What are this year’s summits?
    • Non Profit
    • Higher Education
    • Mobile
    • Commerce
    • Product
    • DevOps
    • UI / UX
    • Core Developer
• Trainings
  • What’s the deal with trainings?
    • beg -> advanced
    • free!
    • All-day Thurs and Friday
• Sprints
  • Extended Sprints (if you want them?)
  • Core developer sprint (Sunday, Sunday SUNDAY)
• Parties
  • Trivia Night / Game night
  • Rooftop Bubble Bar!
• How to get involved:
  • Register
  • Submit a session (Until sept 1)
  • Speak at a summit
  • Sponsor
  • Volunteer

Greg Dunlap talks about the Configuration Management Initiative (CMI) and how it will improve the dev/staging/production process by moving configuration out of the database, and into files that can be easily moved across sites.

Things he talks about

• What is CMI and what will it do?
• What has it been like being an initiative lead?

Questions from Twitter

• (@DamienMcKenna) Damien McKenna
  Why does he feel the current configuration structure is the best option?
• (@Crell) Larry Garfield
  Are UUIDs and deployment still part of your initiative, or have those fallen by the wayside? Who's picking those up?