Introducing DevConf at Rootconf, open house on the future of droidconIN, Kilter price cut and more!

The HasGeek Newsletter ✉️ — Mar 22nd

Hello!

Here is a quick update on what’s going on at HasGeek this week.

TL;DR

• Kilter tickets have been slashed by 50%. Get your tickets now.
• Kilter Open House today is on cheese! RSVP here.
• A meetup on Saturday for startup founders on dealing with stress and unhealthy lifestyles. RSVP here.
• Introducing DevConf at Rootconf. Submit your talk here.
• Rootconf schedule is out, and ticket prices go up every Friday.
• Introducing the DevOps for Payments conference. Submit your talk.
• FinTech Friday next week on government-backed payment methods. Follow @50pConf for updates.
• HasGeek Open House today on the future of droidconIN. RSVP here.

Kilter tickets are 50% off

We managed to cut our costs on the venue and are passing those savings to you. All the details here: https://blog.kilter.in/kilter-2017-ticket-prices-slashed-50-610dae5c267c

The final schedule for Kilter will be announced this weekend.
https://kilter.in/2017/#schedule

Get your tickets here: https://kilter.in/2017/#tickets

Kilter Open House on Cheese!

Today’s open house is all about cheese! The very enthusiastic Kristen McQuillin (Tink) and our own Shreyas Satish are going to bring samplers of different kinds of cheese and have cheesy talks. Drop by and feel free to bring your own wine and nuts to go with all the deliciousness.

Event starts at 7pm at HasGeek house in Indira Nagar, Bangalore.

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/190551738111272/

Kilter Talk at Axilor Transit

Founders lead highly stressful and unhealthy lifestyles. Will exercise fix our flab? Why do diets matter for stamina, fitness and enhanced self-esteem?

Diet coach Aniruddha Shankar once was an IT entrepreneur who launched his first startup back in 1999. Speaking from his experience — both as someone who became unhealthy working startup hours, and as someone who coaches IT startup founders on nutrition and diet — Aniruddha will share insights on what startup founders can do to improve their health. All this, in an interactive chat with entrepreneurs and startups at the Axilor Ventures office on March 25. The event starts at 5.30pm.

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/267085533735230/.

DevConf at Rootconf

The technology space in India has been working for the past couple of years around workload deployment in containers, elastic infrastructure fabric, scaled storage and software defined networking. There are sizeable communities which span from developers to DevOps roles as consumers of the feature improvements.

Rootconf, Red Hat and the Linux Foundation have partnered to co-host DevConf at Rootconf 2017. This track is an invitation for developers working with platform technologies to share case studies from the trenches, explaining:

• What problems did you solve with one platform which you couldn’t solve with any other technology? Why was it the case?
• What features have worked for your use-case? Why?
• Which features did you build on top of available platforms? How can they work for others?

Submit proposals here: https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/devconf-2017/

Updates on Rootconf

Rootconf is a two-track event this year — Rootconf talks in the auditorium, DevConf in the banquet, and BOF sessions in the lawns. This year’s edition will feature:

• Talks on capacity planning, monitoring, root-cause-analysis, deploying microservices and deployment and orchestration of container based infrastructures.
• 101 sessions on platform technologies at DevConf on 11 May.
• Case studies and demos at DevConf on 12 May.
• Space for open source contributors to submit contributions and patches to projects, and identify + squash bugs.

In case you missed updates, here’s what’s happened with Rootconf between last week and this week:

1. We announced the the first set of confirmed talks and draft schedule: https://rootconf.in/2017/#schedule
2. We have re-opened the call for proposals until 10th April. If you missed submitting your proposal, do it now! https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/2017/
3. Four workshops — on 13 and 14 May — are confirmed. The workshop schedule will be live by this weekend. Workshops are limited to 15–20 participants. Buy your tickets now.
4. If you are interested in discussing a topic of interest at Rootconf, submit a proposal for a Birds of a Feather session. https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/2017/

Lastly, our green community sponsor — FreeBSD Foundation — has sponsored water bottles for Rootconf participants. A big thank you to the FreeBSD Foundation for this convenience at Rootconf — you can attach the water bottle to your trousers, refill and reuse, and carry it around and after the conference.

More DevOps training!

Rootconf editor and known figure in India’s DevOps community — Aditya Patawari — is doing a two-day container workshop on Docker platform. The dates — 1 and 2 April — coincide with Kilter conference. Whoever said life’s choices are easy to make! You will either learn how to build, run and manage Docker containers on these two days. Or you will know more about the internals of your body if you decide to show up at Kilter.

Aditya has offered 25% discount to the HasGeek community.

Use the code “HASGEEK” when you book tickets here: http://imojo.in/cpdmvv/?discount=hasgeek

Conference on DevOps for Payments in Mumbai

Are you someone who is building systems and services for digital payments? Do you have a unique story while monitoring and deploying payment systems in your app or website?
Submit a proposal to speak at our conference on DevOps and payments.
The first edition is set to happen in the BSE Auditorium, Mumbai on the 8th of July.

Submit your talk here: https://rootconf.talkfunnel.com/devops-for-payments-2017/

Follow @rootconf for updates on when tickets go on sale.

#FinTechFriday at Zone Startups — Govt backed payment methods

In the payment industry, to address the elephant right now would be to look high up at the government. The attempt to move to digital payments has prompted the government to lead by example and launch payment methods and schemes to increase the adoption of digital payments. While this all sounds good on paper, did you know it can tilt the scales in favour of the government in a highly competitive market? An oligopoly with the government involved, will never allow healthy competition.

Come learn from Anupam Manur, Fellow, The Takshashila Institution at Zone Startups on 31 March on government-backed payment schemes.

Follow @50pConf for details and timings.

HasGeek Open House today on the future of droidconIN

We are having an open discussion today on what we should be doing at droidconIN this year. If you are an Android, iOS or mobile web developer (or know someone who is), please do drop by!
We’d like to hear about the kind of issues you are facing in mobile dev, and what you’d like to see at a mobile developer conference.

We’ve detailed out some of the talking points for this open house on our blog: https://medium.com/hasgeek/open-house-on-whats-next-for-droidconin-18173776ec6c

Please do take a read and attend. We are hoping to shape this year’s conference based on today’s discussion. It’s from 7pm onwards at our office in Indiranagar.

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1838665389727721/

That’s it from us, have a great week!

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