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DevOps Sydney is a community meetup intended for networking and collaboration in the developer + operations community.
We value the participation of each member of the DevOps community and want all community members to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout the meetups.
To make clear what is expected, all attendees, speakers, organisers and volunteers at any Sydney DevOps event are required to conform to the following Code of Conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout events.
The Short Version
DevOps Sydney is dedicated to providing a harassment-free meetup experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of meetup participants in any form.
All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at meetups.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate at DevOps Sydney.
Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the meetups at the sole discretion of the meetup organisers.
Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly event for all.
The Longer Version
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behaviour are expected to comply immediately.
Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate for DevOps Sydney.
If a participant engages in behaviour that violates this code of conduct, the meetup organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender, or expulsion from the meetup.
Contact Information
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a meetup organiser. You may also contact hotel staff and ask to be put in touch with the meetup organisers.
If the matter is especially urgent, please contact any of these individuals:
Lindsay Holmwood at +61 432 768 089
Mick Pollard at +61 488 490 240
The meetup organisers will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe during the meetups. We value your attendance.
DevOps Sydney meetup is about learning and sharing about DevOps movement - culture, practices and tools.
This is a group for professionals, hackers, managers, and engineers - from development and operations backgrounds.
This is a group for professionals, hackers, managers, and engineers — from software engineering, site reliability engineering, and devops backgrounds.
Get involved
Give a talk! Are you passionate about DevOps? We've got a list of ideas if you're looking for inspiration.
Sponsor us! Does your company want to give back to the community? We have flexible sponsorship options that give you quality exposure.
Recruiter? Follow our guidelines. We have a clear set of guidelines to help you involve yourself in the community as a good devops citizen.
Read the code of conduct. We want everyone in the community to have a good time, and these are some simple guidelines to make this happen.
What is DevOps?
DevOps is a movement of passionate software developers and operations engineers who want to break down the walls and improve the relationship between between development, operations, and the rest of the business.
DevOps can be summarised into 4 key points, known as CAMS:
Culture: People over technology. If you don’t have culture, all automation attempts will be fruitless.
Automation: This is one of the places you start once you understand your culture, by stitching together an automation fabric that reflects your shared culture and understanding.
Measurement: If you can’t measure, you can’t improve. Teams doing devops successfully will measure everything as often as they can… performance metrics, process metrics, and even people metrics.
Sharing: sharing is the feedback loop in the CAMS cycle. Creating a culture where people share ideas and problems is critical. The other people in your team aren't the enemy - the problem you're trying to solve is.
Network face to face. Please come to a meetup and introduce yourself - we want to put a face to your name! We are centrally located and meet regularly.
Spruik your positions in the job session at the beginning of the meetup.
Stay during the break. It's a great time to network with potential candidates.
Come to more than one meetup and be part of our community! DevOps is about building strong communication ties with non-technical folk as much as it is about improving the relationship between dev + ops.
We love it when recruiters feel as though they are part of the community, and we'll work hard to make you feel this way!
Don't:
Recruiters are not permitted to contact members through the meetup group, or post job advertisements to this group.
Recruiters are not permitted to use details of members of this meetup group to solicit jobs. This includes name, email, or cross-referenced phone numbers.
Disappear after spruiking your positions in the opening jobs session. Stay and meet your candidates!
If you don't follow the above rules, we won't hesitate blocking and reporting you on Meetup.
Otherwise, we look forward to making your acquaintance in person!
Attendee + meetup member privacy
It should go without saying, but we will say it anyway: we will never give out your details without your consent.
We strive to make the DevOps Sydney group a safe, fun, and engaging environment for everyone.
We intentionally keep meetup sponsorship very simple.
Sponsorship is done on a per-meetup basis. This gives you flexibility to sponsor individual meetups or continuously - the choice is yours.
What you get
A highly visible thank you mention in the event emails for that meetup.
Your logo on the meetup's event page.
Your logo on the meetup website for 3 months.
Display of your company's logo on the screen before the meetup.
Shout out the sponsor in the opening introduction.
If you are hiring, an introduction in the job section.
What you can sponsor
Your sponsorship can cover:
A bar tab, with an amount and limits to be agreed upon with organisers (we recommend $250-500 for an evening meetup)
Venue sponsorship for breakfast meetups.
Recording and publishing videos of talks from the events.
Venue sponsorship
DevOps Sydney has made a conscious decision to hold our evening meetups outside of corporate spaces. Our reasoning is:
Holding meetups in a corporate space sets an implicit tone to conversations at the meetups. The physical event environment affects peoples inhibitions - people can feel uncomfortable talking about particular topics and problems openly. We want DevOps Sydney events to facilitate frank and open conversations about social and technical problems.
Some organisations have reservations about their employees attending events at their competitor's offices (fear of accidentally divulging sensitive information, poaching, etc). These fears aren't always justified, but they exist nonetheless.
Getting attendee access into the venue on the night often ends up being a logistical challenge, with someone from the sponsor required to chaperone people in and out of the venue.
This is why we have chosen a neutral ground for the evening meetups, that's more associated with social functions.
That said, there are some undeniable problems with having meetups in pubs:
Not everybody drinks alcohol. Pubs primarily exist to serve alcohol. There are well documented problems with alcohol consumption in the tech industry. While attendees at our meetups drink responsibly and we have had no incidents of harassment in the 5 years we have run the meetup, past success doesn't guarantee future success (especially as meetup attendance is open to anyone who walks off the street). Attending events where alcohol is being served has risks that minorities in the tech industry (women in particular) have to weigh up when deciding to attend. This sucks.
Pubs often don't have wheelchair access. This is a form of ableism that our current meetup venue unfortunately is guilty of. This sucks.
Pubs can be noisy, and space can be non-exclusive. There is a fair amount of pedestrian traffic to the side of our venue space that occasionally interferes with our talks. This sucks.
The current situation isn't optimal. To increase the accessibility of our events, we are looking at holding a breakfast meetup every second month. If you're interested in sponsoring this, please contact us.
