Meeting Place and Time We usually meet on the second Tuesdays of the month: Check this space or the mailing list for details. Location and Directions Next Meeting Tuesday, July 13th, 2010, 7:00 p.m. AOL 770 Broadway, 6th Floor Chef Overview by John Willis VP of Services IRC Find us on FreeNode in #nyc.

Please join us for a brief introduction to Chef, focusing on concepts and major components. The presentation is a free Web based session that will include a fifteen minute Q&A.

Chef 0.9.6 Released Hot on the heels of 0.9.4, I’m happy to announce the release of Chef 0.9.6. Chef 0.9.6 fixes some bugs we introduced when we cleaned up our file loading code in 0.9.2, which caused `shef` to crash on start.

We are pleased to announce that the updated Debian/Ubuntu packages of Chef 0.9 have been posted to the new apt.opscode.com repository! Please be aware of the following changes in the packaging if you’re using the older 0.7 packages from Ubuntu 9.10/10.04 or the old apt.opscode.com. chef-server-slices is deprecated, and split into chef-server-api and chef-server-webui.

This is one of the clips from Adam’s now famous "Choose Your Own Adventure" Velocity 2010 talk.

Chef 0.9.4 Released I’m happy to announce another release of Chef. This time around, we found a backwards compatibility issue right after publishing 0.9.2, so we’re moving on up to 0.9.4. These are bugfix releases that address the issues we’ve found since releasing 0.9.0 last week. Fixed in 0.9.

Michael Cote and I run an IT Management podcast series. I like to say we are the "Click and Clack" of IT management. On this latest podcast we were able to track down Adam Jacob and Chris Brown and ask them some great questions about Velocity 2010 and the new Opscode announcements.

Opscode Unveils Commercial Platform Opscode Platform Puts Advanced Infrastructure Automation Within Reach for Organizations of all Sizes. SEATTLE, Wash – June 21, 2010 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the limited beta release of the Opscode Platform, the world’s first hosted configuration management service.

OPSCODE CLOSES $11 MILLION SERIES B ROUND Battery Ventures Leads New Round in Infrastructure Automation Start-up; Sunil Dhaliwal to Join the Opscode Board of Directors SEATTLE, Wash – June 21, 2010 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, announced today that it has closed an $11 million Series B round of funding.