The Annual General Meeting of the BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group will be held at the London Office of the BCS, Southampton Street, London at 1800 on Tuesday 1 November 2011.  Light refreshments will be available from 1730 and a presentation on Continuous Integration (DevOps) will follow the AGM at 1830.  The speakers Julian Simpson and Chris Read have aptly entitled their presentation, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery - what’s the difference?  And what the hell is DevOps, anyhow? Julian’s and Chris’ bios can be found here and here.

Abstract: What does it mean to ‘do’ Continuous Integration?  It used to be enough to execute your unit tests in CI.  But the bar is steadily rising for engineering practices and in the last decade we’ve seen tremendous improvements in acceptance testing.  JavaScript is now a platform in its own right and cloud computing is vital.  As interest in deployment to production grows, continuous Integration comes under more pressure than ever.  As the bar rises, we’ll present 2011’s minimum viable feature set for Continuous Integration.

Following this presentation you will understand:

• the purpose and history of continuous integration
• the difference between unit, integration and acceptance testing
• continuous integration scaling via public cloud and performance optimisation
• the pros and cons of different notification strategies
• the purpose of Configuration Management tools like Chef and Puppet
• the difference between Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery

We have linked up with the London Continuous Integration Group for this presentation and we hope to continue to deliver more on this topic as DevOps becomes a mainstream activity.

We really hope you can make it along both to the AGM and this exciting presentation.  If you do intend coming along, please register via the BCS at https://events.bcs.org/book/116/.

AGM Agenda

1. Apologies

2. Minutes of the 2010 AGM

3. Matters arising

4. Officers’ Reports

• Chairman’s Report
• Treasurer’s Report

5. Election of Officers and Committee Members for 2011-12

6. Programme for 2011-12

7. Chairman’s Business

Copies of Officers’ reports will be available at the AGM. For members unable to attend, the Secretary will be pleased to forward electronic copies of these documents on request.

Please notify the undersigned of any matters you wish to raise at the AGM by 25 October 2011 so that they can be added to the agenda – see nomination form for contact details.

Your specialist group committee does need your continued support to carry out its work for the benefit of all members.  New committee members in particular are most welcome.  Please could you make any nominations to join the committee on the attached form?

Yours sincerely

Alan Morbey

Secretary

BCS CMSG

Election of Committee

The CMSG Committee for 2011-12 will be elected at the AGM of the BCS CMSG to be held at 1800 on Tuesday 1 November 2011 in the BCS London Office, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. WC2E 7HA.  Directions can be found here.

The current committee have all indicated their willingness to offer themselves for re-election in 2011-12 although David Cuthbertson whilst remaining a committee member will be stepping down from his role as Events Co-ordinator.  We welcome nominations from members to stand for any of the committee roles:

• Chairman
• Vice-Chairman
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Events Co-ordinator
• General Committee Member(s)

Please see nomination form below.

Current committee members are as follows:

Current Committee

Robert Cowham                               Chairman

Shirley Lacy                                       Vice-Chairman

Alan Morbey                                       Secretary

John Metcalfe                                    Treasurer

David Cuthbertson                           Events Co-ordinator

Brian Scott                                         Committee Member

Patricia McCombes                         Committee Member

Tom Brett                                           Committee Member

Ian Preskett                                       Committee Member

David Norfolk                                    Committee Member

Neil White                                          Committee Member

 

Please note that nominations for the election of CMSG Officers and Committee members must be signed by two CMSG members and lodged with the Secretary 7 days before the date of the Annual General Meeting. ie., by Tuesday 25 October 2011.  The consent of the nominee must accompany any nomination.

Please contact Robert Cowham ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Alan Morbey ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) should you require further details.

Nominations for the Committee 2011-12

Please use BLOCK CAPS for this column:

Nomination for the position of:
Nominee	Signature	BCS Membership Number
Proposer	Signature	BCS Membership Number
Seconder	Signature	BCS Membership Number
Date

 

 

THIS FORM SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE CMSG SECRETARY AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO  THE DATE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, IE., BY Tuesday 25 October 2011, EITHER BY MAIL TO THE SECRETARY AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:

 

Alan Morbey

BCS CMSG Secretary

Met Office

FitzRoy Road

Exeter

EX1 3PB

 

Or electronically to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it