I forgot to put this in the announcement! If things go according to plan, we’ll have Michelle Kolbe from the Utah Oracle Users Group to talk about their new initiative Women In Tech:
"Utah Oracle Users Group (UTOUG) is kicking off a new initiative in 2014 called UTOUG Women In Tech with the goal of encouraging women to pursue careers in technology and giving them confidence to succeed in these careers and an ultimate goal of increasing the diversity of the tech workforce in Utah. The first phase of this program is a mentoring program for women in undergraduate Computer Science and Information Systems degree programs. We are looking for mentors of any gender to help with this program by mentoring a student. We will provide training on how to mentor successfully. This one year commitment will give you the chance to recruit new talent to your organization and also provide you with the opportunity to make a difference in the IT community in Utah and in a woman’s life. "UTOUG is asking that you consider being a mentor and also share this with your teams and encourage them to participate. For more information and to sign up, go to http://www.utoug.org/WomenInTech. There is a great bunch of students already signed up who we’d like to get paired up to mentors! You do not need to be a UTOUG member to mentor. Please spread the word about this mentoring initiative to your IT coworkers and friends!” Thanks! Justin -- Justin Carmony Sent with Airmail On February 19, 2014 at 10:41:07 AM, Justin Carmony ([email protected]) wrote: The meeting will be this Thursday (Feb. 20th) at Needle at 7:00 PM. It’ll be me (Justin Carmony) from Deseret Digital Media talking about “Mentoring Devs Into DevOps.” Talk Summary “Lets set aside the buzzword for a moment and have an honest discussion about DevOps. There is the idea of putting more Dev into Ops, but just a crucial (if not more crucial) is getting your Devs to think more like Ops. Most developers have little to no experience dealing with production environments, and helping them add value to your DevOps efforts can be difficult. “We’ll discuss practical ways of mentoring Devs into more DevOps skills and responsibilities. We’ll share past experiences & ways to help your Devs gain more insight to the health of production. Ultimately, our goal is to help your Devs gain the skills to help your team achieve better application performance & uptimes. Finally, we’ll talk about how Salt can play a major role in increasing insight in your production environment for your Devs.” About The Speaker: I work for DDM, been involved with the Utah PHP Usergroup for about 5 years now, and I use PHP on a daily basis. Currently at work we operate KSL.com, DeseretNews.com, Ok.com, and many others. The After Party will be at the traditional location of Applebee’s in Draper. We typically head over there at about 8:30-9:00, so watch Twitter and we’ll announce when we’re heading over. Meeting Venue: Needle The Meetings are still at Needle, their address is: Needle Inc. 14864 Pony Express Road Bluffdale, UT 84065 Look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday! Thanks, Justin Carmony _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
