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Don Jones

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Book: "Shell of an Idea," the Untold History of PowerShell

I’ve launched a new book project, which I’m hoping you’ll support: Shell of an Idea, the Untold History of PowerShell is now available for pre-purchase at a $10 discount on Leanpub. You’ll get the initial introductory chapters right now, and when I start pumping out the main manuscript in April-May 2020, you’ll get that too. The price will rise to the final $30 after the first 100 preorders, so don’t delay too much if you want in on the deal.

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Books
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“The DSC Book” now Open Source!

“The DSC Book” is now open source! It remains available at Leanpub, but the source is now at https://github.com/dsccommunity/TheDSCBook. Everyone is invited to contribute corrections and expansions, and the results will publish roughly monthly on Leanpub. In addition, the book is now $0 on Leanpub, although you may choose to pay whatever you like, with all proceeds going to The DevOps Collective’s scholarship programs.

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PowerShell for Admins
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A Farewell, and a Bunch of Hellos

As many of you know, The DevOps Collective recently concluded its 7th US event, PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 in Bellevue, WA. Head to the organization’s YouTube page for the breakout session recordings, which are live. I mentioned going into it that this Summit would be bittersweet for me, as it’s the last one I’ll be directly involved with. My career’s simply taking me in a new direction, and it’s much less connected to the day-to-day of technology and more connected with business leadership and strategy.

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PowerShell for Admins
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IRON SCRIPTER 2019 BEGINS!

Go to https://ironscripter.us/iron-scripter-2019-is-coming/ right away! Even if you’re not attending Summit, these challenges are a great thing to jump into. They’re a fun chance to flex your PowerShell sk1llz, and the official Iron Scripter competition permits remote assistance to each of our three factions - so you can get in on the action from afar! We suggest using tags #battlefaction, #daybreakfaction, and #flawlessfaction, and #ironscripter2019 to hook up with fellow coders on social media.

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PowerShell for Admins
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PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Cancellation and Waitlist Procedure

As Summit nears a record sellout (there are 30 tickets remaining as I write this) I want to review our cancellation and waitlist policies and procedures. After we formally sell out, Eventbrite will start accepting waitlist entries. Use a personal email address that you check regularly; corporate email systems tend to eat the waitlist notifications as spam. If we’re able to offer a spot to the waitlist, it’ll happen during the week, usually in the morning (US time), and you’ll have 24 hours to respond by purchasing a ticket.

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PowerShell Summit
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Welcome, New and Returning @PSHSummit Summiteers!

The following was recently posted in the Slack team for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2018. Yesterday, we invited all current registered Summiteers into the Slack team; if you missed your invitation, please email summit@ (this website’s domain name) with your email address (ideally a personal one, not work) and your Eventbrite order number. We’ll be happy to re-send the invite.
Another reminder for all @here - please go to http://leanpub.com/summiteermanual/ and “buy” the book (for $0, of course), and enable the option to have Leanpub notify you via email of updates. That’s The Summiteer Manual, and it’s our best way to provide a consolidated view of everything that happens at Summit. From understanding how we handle special dietary requests, to understanding what “Iron Scripter” is all about, it’s the best way to take advantage of all that goes on. Summit is a **lot** more than just great breakout sessions, but it’s very easy to “miss out” on things if you don’t know they’re available. We update this a lot as we get closer, and will even be including information (and possible discounts) on stuff around the Puget Sound area for early/late arrivals who want to see some sights. A week or two out, it’s not even a bad idea to make sure your phone/tablet/laptop has a copy to refer to (Leanpub offers PDF/MOBI/EPUB formats), and some folks even print a copy to bring along.

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PowerShell Summit
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The New PowerShell.org Logo (and eBooks! and Swag!)

If you check out our free eBook, PowerShell.org: History of a Community, you’ll see both the original PowerShell.org logo and our second, “Metro-fied” take on it. The first one is probably easy to make sense of, with the PowerShell logo superimposed over the Earth, suggesting a global community. The “Metro” version go a bit abstract, since the Earth became just a simple round circle. What both logos lacked was a clear commitment to a diverse community of _people.

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Announcements
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PowerShell.org Site Status Update

This post will be periodically updated as needed, so feel free to check back.
Our site upgrade and re-theme is going well, and I wanted to outline some of the major changes and current issues. If you’re encountering any lingering issues, please drop a comment; rather than replying, I’ll update the main article.

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Announcements
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PowerShell.org Site Maintenance Today

PowerShell.org will be undergoing upgrading and maintenance on Friday and Saturday. We’ll leave the site open, as Articles and Forums should remain accessible, but the site may look a little rough around the edges at times. The site does use some pretty aggressive caching, so if you’re visiting throughout the day, use a force-reload (Shift+Refresh or whatever in your browser) to pull a fresh set of pages as we work.

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