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From YouTube: DevOpsDay-LA SCaLE18x prep call

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Recording of the prep meeting for GitLab's activities at DevOpsDay-LA and SCaLE18x

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Okay and let me share the Google Doc that you should all have access to. Yes,.

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Second, to buy my.

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All right, you guys, should be able to see this cool all right yeah. So this is uh I. Don't think we'll need the full 30 minutes, but just wanted to get everybody together.

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That's going to be there for get like community day and about say la sort of together and I think hopefully we'll have a chance to meet each other for dinner on Thursday, but just wanted to quickly go through I, don't think everybody knows what's going on on for both tracks, for them, I'll, say de la and Gila Community Day, so just wanted to quickly talk about goals and activities that we're going to have for those events and then make sure there aren't any questions and definitely want to have all the gate.

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Lamp kill, lab team members sort of help each other out during the event, but that's sort of it sort of the goal for this call and David did you have anything else that you wanted to add here or other things you want to talk about.

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Cool so the event starts on March 5th and then I don't know. If you saw the email from the organizers, the event is still on so I, don't think, there's a huge risk of being cancelled or or these the conference being moved. So the event starts on Thursday at the Pasadena Convention Center and Rachel I'll turn things over to you. There's a in the document. There should be a link to the issue, but if you want to quickly talk to us about DevOps the LA and how we can help you out, that would be great.

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Great, oh I just wondered what was going on since we're working together in this, so for everyone who isn't familiar with tough upstate I like what we're gonna we're gonna, be an exhibitor for them. So it's an all-day event only on Friday, so that runs from 9:00 to 5:45 p.m. they're, expecting they said a little over three hundred, possibly four hundred attendees. So our goals for my particular team, we're gonna, be focusing on trying to gather 150 scans and then mq.

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All the marketing qualified need goal is 30, so I can write that in there, if you'd like, but just wanted to communicate that to you on the front end of what we're looking for, with all of the conversations around coronavirus and just being as healthy as possible. We have wood. There will not be a lead scanner, but we will have a QR code listed on a raffle signage at the booths that we have for do DLA, so people can hover over it with their phones if they don't feel comfortable typing in their information.

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We want to make sure we give them that option as well, but we will be participating in a raffle, so we're gonna be hosting it in your in the community days Ballroom. So the two ballrooms that we're gonna be having this event are informe de and it's right next door to the Community Day Ballroom in ballroom F. So during the break for a community Day, we will come in and we'll do the raffle and not together room Francis.

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Pottery was also gonna, be having a presentation for instances on here he's waving, so his information I will make sure highly I didn't mist off, but it's also it can be found within the DoD la issue. Does anyone have any additional questions for DoD LA.

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Do oh I wanted to know if we were going to be classifying the context that we get as partly the open source, because I know that corporate marketing and like the community team, have been talking about house and starts getting more contact specifically kind of labeled as open source? So we can start to then do specific marketing to reach that audience.

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So the question is like it will these people be classified as we.

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Call effective, originally eyes reduce cycle time for the nurture that was gonna be followed up on, but we can definitely look into that if you want to put your name in the docs and I can follow up with you and see what we can do. Okay. Thank you.

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These are mostly sales leads that you're thinking of Rachel right, but alright.

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The adres, if you can explain to the team, a laminated handout that you were gonna, have right.

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Yeah so yeah, obviously you're gonna have the boot for pretty much the whole day, so I mean if it works out, we'll see how the large the table is. We have a two pager flier that we developed for the community relations team for four Fossum about a month ago. We can lead couple of those there in case people have any questions about the community and then use that, to you know, sort of send people over to the community day room, that's appropriate.

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That would be great and happy to also leave like I mean number of us will be happy to leave our business cards on on on the on the table.

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If there's room, if people want to get a hold of us and they're not able to attend a community day and I, think John I think you're gonna have some postcards for gitlab heroes as well, but um you can kind of figure out either on Friday morning or even during the set up on Thursday I, think you're going to set up Thursday afternoon and see what can what kind of space we're dealing with if it's appropriate to leave those community related collateral, Sarah.

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Thanks yeah and then I think you go. Do the set up starting around four o'clock on Thursdays, all right, Rachel or yeah I. Think I should be like popping in at different sessions but happy to help out with any of the setup related stuff. If you need a need, a hand, and if you also want like community related folks into booth in the morning, I think you're pretty fully staff in terms of both duties, but we'll be happy to help that as well.

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Alright, so community they I mean David. Did you want to be the discussion or I.

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The position of the events yeah.

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So I mean quick overview on the gate lock community a this is basically a sponsored track. If you will so we paid for the room for usage of the room for half a day, so we got it for four hours in the afternoon and then, if you look at the issue, you'll see the agenda for, for the gate, like you need a we're using about half the track on Community Relations, related topics, I mean overview of our various programs and also we're going to do a hands-on workshop.

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I, don't know if Scott is on I, don't see them, but Scott David and I are going to do some quick, hands-on workshop and here so the workflows that you you follow to contribute to get lab, not just in terms of code but also like documentation and translations.

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And after that, as Rachel mentioned earlier, there'll be a 15-minute break and I mean thank you Rachel for rescheduling your raffle announcement, so you'll come to the room and we'll announce the winners for for Nintendo switch. A quick question for you, Rachel is: are you going to have the merchandise on hand, or is this gonna be like shipped to the winners? Well,.

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Awesome, so that makes it even more appealing so cool, so we'll do the raffle during the 15 minutes, and then hopefully, I mean the one of the fear was that people I was just gonna leave the room for the raffle and I'll come back, but I think this will sort of entice people to stay in the room and Francis is doing a double duty in terms of speaking on on Friday, so he's going to lead another, you know almost a two-hour session on I could get lap DevOps tutorial.

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So if you're in the booth during the DevOps de la, if people want to hear more about, you know how to use gitlab from a user or potential customer perspective. I think this would be a great for people to kind of sit through in Francis I think you mentioned that you're going to also have some potentially like your hands on components to this. So if people have their laptops, it can sort of try things out. Hands on is that is that correct, Francis, yeah.

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I'll be demoing I'm, not sure how much hands-on the audience is doing, but but yeah I'll be doing a demo. Okay,.

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Great so yeah I mean for people that want to really dig it lab in action. I think this would be a good session for people to participate in and going back to, the Google Doc. The other thing I'm trying to do is we're working on our presentations for the get like community today, either today or tomorrow, I'm gonna ping, the organizers and see if they can paste the links to our presentations on the on the schedule. So people have it before him and people can access it easily afterwards and I mean Francis.

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If there's a Google Doc or something that you want me to include, there I mean feel free to send the link to me. It doesn't have to be complete, like I'm sure all of ours, like we'll, be working till Friday to tweak their content. But, okay, just but let me know, I mean if you, if you feel comfortable doing that it would be happy to include it and be in this schedule or the event description.

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Any questions I mean that's about it for get like community today, I mean David, I, don't know if I miss anything.

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Do you want to add anything there.

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This is a quick question for you. This is something I missed. It's I, don't know. If, like do you know, is, is it possible to get a pop-up get lab sign somewhere to get it shipped to like my hotel, like I, was thinking? Maybe I'll have one like outside of the room, but I mean, if not I, don't think that's a big deal, but it's something I just did completely forgot about until yesterday. So.

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I will work on my end. I think I have an extra one in my marketing closet here. So I do know.

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Awesome. Thank you. Yeah.

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I'll, keep you updated in a day, okay,.

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Cool I mean, if not I, don't think it's the end of the world. I can't remember from all the other, like communities had them, but they'll be kind of a nice thing to do. Thank you for that and the other thing on the on on the event I mean Rachel already covered it. Francis has a top a talk in the DevOps track and I have a talk on late Sunday and we do have social activities that already started. You see a link to the social issue.

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There I have a blog post that went out last week or a couple of weeks ago and that it's already been tweeted by the event organizers, which is great over the weekend, in addition to the gitlab social team and then in that blog post, there's a discount link for the registration code, that's specific to get labs, so this would be another way to get more people to come to the event and come to our activities.

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Anything else we want to add here in terms of get that community or them up say la or any other questions. Oh and most importantly, I mean I load it to the dinner like a Thursday evening. If people have any recommendations or preference like let me now, it looks like we will have about dozen people. I can go ahead and make a reservation, but just wait to make see if people are more familiar with Pasadena than I am.

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Yeah great, actually one other thing that I wanted to add to the agenda, and I can do this afterwards, but our participation in did anniversary I, know that we're participating in that so I wanted to give everybody a heads up. So after this music yeah.

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Yeah yeah, we can yeah, we can add it to the document or we can have a conversation up the recordings over cool. If there's anything else, I'll stop the recording I look forward to seeing everyone in person in a couple of days have safe travels and let me just stop the recording.