November 4, 2019

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The Project Sputnik story: Crowdsourcing a developer laptop

The Project Sputnik story: Crowdsourcing a developer laptop

Barton George tells the story of the developer edition of the Dell XPS 13 laptop, which began life as Project Sputnik, a scrappy skunkworks project to pilot an Ubuntu-based cloud developer platform.
Talk Title The Project Sputnik story: Crowdsourcing a developer laptop
Speakers Barton George (Dell)
Conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention
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Location Austin, Texas
Date May 16-19, 2016
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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Barton George tells the story of the developer edition of the Dell XPS 13 laptop, which began life as Project Sputnik, a scrappy skunkworks project to pilot an Ubuntu-based cloud developer platform. Thanks to the power of the community, this concept went from project to product in a little over six months. Barton explores the lumps the team took along the way and the five key lessons they learned. This session is sponsored by Dell.

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