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.

Are you ready to #learnchef? We’re launching a free weekly webinar series aimed at guiding you down the learning path for Chef. Join us next Thursday for the first webinar in the series. This series aims to prepare key development, engineering, and operations staff to use Chef to write infrastructure.

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Many of you out there in the Chef Community are likely using Prezi’s dynamite zooming presentation software. Prezi, in turn, is using Enterprise Chef to manage a big gang of AWS resources that serve its nearly 20M users. Cool, yes, but nothing we haven’t said before.

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For all you Chefs in the London area, Opscode will be taking part in the AWS Enterprise Summit at the Grange St. Paul’s Hotel tomorrow, Sept. 17, from 8 am – 6 pm. This event is designed for senior technical leaders within enterprise organizations who are looking to learn more about AWS.