All:

We have space for in-person activities around the Operate First project at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) the weekend of 28 - 31 July.

The original ideas from last December didn't become plans, so the space is still available without a plan for use.

Do you have any ideas and interest in helping plan and run something on that day? Or should we let this one go by?

The day would be Friday 29 July, which is typically used for day-long workshops, meetups, and so forth. This is a good event for people who are US or Americas-based. It has been moved for this year to an older location, the Hilton at LAX, which is an okay venue and convenient for travel.

If possible, I'd like us to know by the end of this week  if there is any interest in doing something, otherwise I want to return the offer of space to SCaLE.

Some ideas:

- Have people take some SRE training and perform some hands-on labs; make the appeal especially to students and people with non-specific backgrounds.
- Onboard Open Source projects -- would mean recruiting some in advance to come to the workshop for this, and putting out a general call, "When you are ready to test your cloud service beyond CI/CD ..."

- Do some work in support of OS-Climate and ODH on the Operate First community cloud.

- Have an introduction workshop for Data Science or AI Ops

  I'm not sure if this is a tried idea, it could be very popular, and we could be showing people how to use ODH tools on their own laptops, show some GitOps, etc. Might be a nice one to share a workshop teaching stage with a mix of people from the DS Team and SIG-Ops

- SRE community of practice birds of a feather-type day

Kind regards,

- Karsten