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Following the success of our recent Chef Hack Day in Austin, Texas, on Saturday April 30 we will have the first Denver/Boulder area hack day! Opscode will be in attendance with members of the developer and services teams. What: Spend a Saturday hacking on Chef itself, or on your cookbooks.

Joshua Timberman
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We will be at the Orange County PHP and Los Angeles PHP Meetups on April 27th and 28th. See below for more info. Aaron Peterson is a long-time Systems Engineer and Administrator who has worked at scale for companies like Amazon.com and BofA.

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The Texas Linux Fest is in Austin this Saturday April 2! This is the second year for this Linux and Open Source conference and it looks like it’s going to be a great show.

Matt Ray
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The US-based Erlang Community Conference, Erlang Factory, took place last week in San Francisco.  I attended this conference and wrote up conference notes on my blog.  I also wanted to share them with all of you who follow Opscode. Link.

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Opscode’s Services team will be in Seattle again next week, and we’ll be having an informal meeting for Chef users at the Owl & Thistle pub. Opscode is buying the first round and will have appetizers available. If you’d like to talk shop about Chef, Ruby or anything else about operations, please join us!

Joshua Timberman
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From our friends at Cloudspace, a great blog post on using the Opscode Platform and Vagrant to efficiently set up development environments.

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Looking for a chance to jump-start your Chef knowledge and get guided, hands-on training by Opscode Technical Evangelists? If you’re in Austin, this is your chance! Following on the success of the New York and Chicago Hack Days, Friday April 1st will be the first Austin Chef Training & Hack Day.

Matt Ray
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The Mountain West RubyConf is in Salt Lake City is this Thursday and Friday, March 17-18! This is a regional Ruby conference held in Salt Lake City.

Joshua Timberman
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Debian and Ubuntu packages are now available on apt.opscode.com for the Chef 0.9.14 release. Those users preferring to install Chef and its dependencies from system packages should head on over to the wiki page for installation from Debian and Ubuntu packages.