Question: What are Gene Kim (author of “The Phoenix Project”), Jez Humble (DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pioneer), Catherine Courage (VP of Customer Experience at Citrix), John Esser (Director Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com), and Adrian Cockcroft (Director of Architecture for Cloud Systems @ Netflix) all doing next Friday, 11/1?

Next Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am Pacific Time, we’ve joined with our friends at PaddyPower, Cloudify, and CloudStack to host a sweet podcast addressing common obstacles in the journey to DevOps.

Thanks to everyone who turned out for our first installment of the Chef Fundamentals Webinar Series yesterday. We had a fantastic session with Nathen Harvey and look forward to continuing the series next week.

In part II of our “Velocity Greatest Hits” blog series leading up to next week’s Velocity NYC, we dive into the mind of Adam Jacob and his famed “Choose Your Own Adventure” talk. Driven by audience interaction and questions, Adam’s “Choose Your Won Adventure” can obviously take a number of different directions.

Opscode and our partners have a bunch of opportunities coming up to help you #learnchef. We’ve recently announced a weekly webinar series that kicks off next Thursday. It’s free to attend so sign-up and put it on your calendar today. We also have a number of instructor-led classes coming up in the next few months.

As many of you know, next week is Velocity NYC, where you can find a bunch of the Opscode gang at booth #24 talking about how “code can,” and other cool musings. Leading up to next week’s conference, we thought it’d be cool to revisit some of our greatest hits from Velocity’s years past.

Hello Chefs. Today we are announcing two releases for Chef Client: Chef Client 11.6.2 Chef Client 10.28.2 The highlight of the release is the fix for CHEF-4489 reported by Jeff Blaine which prevented the creation of necessary symlinks in Solaris packages.  MVP With his awesome help finding and testing the Solaris packaging issues Jeff Blaine is this release’s MVP.

Our friends at the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began their mission with this idea – humans’ knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth (of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria) is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere.

We’re only about a month away from this year’s Opscode Community Summit. The Opscode Community Summit is a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Opscode engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. The Opscode Community Summit is a facilitated Open Space event.