Updated 16th May - Further Delayed - potentially indefinitely

DIN: Delayed - Derby PowerShell UK & Global Azure Gathering 2025

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The Delay Reasons

This event was initially delayed for the following reasons

Mostly

• Equipment failures just as I was about to kick off yesterday
  • This is due to using ageing and underpowered equipment that just can’t handle these kinds of workloads
  • This I believe then caused a forced shutdown due to overheating.
  • The device I was going to use for this is already on it’s way to retirement
  • The back up devices I have are of lower specs, so not appropriate for use here whilst also showing signs that they need replacing or being used for less intensive tasks.

Partly

• Low Engagement in the Call for Speakers

  • Partially due to trying to get a rush of content for an already content heavy weekend
  • Tried to organise it with very little lead time
  • Tried to be a bit too hopeful that in organising this that content would flood in, instead of trickle in.
  • Perhaps because it’s me organising this & well, I’ve been a bit absent from this sort of thing.
    • That brings people to think He's not gonna commit to this & see it through
    • But as Gandalf would say A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
    • I may have as aspired to have this run as planned, and all if all things had gone smoothly then it would have done.
    • But this time the wizard in me decided for me, without consulting me in the process till last night, that it shall be next weekend we do this.

• Loose Content plan

  • People like highly focused content and not a content sprawl especially for an event like this
  • That’s just not how I do things when possible.

The Revised Plan

Yeah it was gonna be 39 hours solid content no breaks - it still is& is going to be fully scheduled content, much like the pwsh 24 even in 2020 was.

I am doing all the management plan in GitHub so that I can use & share this as a template for the future.

This works for these sort of quick events where you have a small org team, however I am to reach out a number of organisers of events that I know , like the Global Azure team, the Eu Summits (Cloud|Collab) run.events team and have a chat with them about the plans I have for a similar event to this that can run as either a pre-Build or post-Build event, however more on that sometime around November time.

So I’ve had chance to Reflect & Recharge & will Re-Initialise with a revised plan of action.

So, lets try this again shall we & make it a success next week instead of this one.

Call for Content

Updated - the below is now out of date

The Call for content is still open [so send your sessions in](https://sessionize.com/derby-powershell-uk-global-azure-gathering-2025/)</strike>

[Please also book some time with me](https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/[email protected]?anonymous&ismsaljsauthenabled&ep=plink) to chat about PowerShell, Azure, Microsoft 365, which will initially be an informal chats & is not going to be used as part of this event.

Booking time with me is an experiment that I am running into segregation of different roles that we undertake as tech professionals. The outcome of this will be fed back to Microsoft as well as the wider community in the future & forms a part of the evolution of my Mental Health: It's Time to Talk session.~~

Site & Schedule

Updated - the below is now out of date

I'll be updating the [schedule](https://github.com/users/kilasuit/projects/16/views/1) & this very quickly thrown together [website](https://kilasuit.github.io/GlobalAzureDerbyPowerShellUKGathering2025/pages/countdownpage.html) throughout this week/

Will there be more delays?

Updated Friday 16th May 2025

(Updated after Microsoft’s Layoffs this week)

<u><b>**ABSOLUTELY NOT**</b></u> (well that **was the plan** when this was posted on May 10th - However in line with MSFT Layoffs this I've decided this may be delayed indefinitely)

I'm going to be borrowing a device that will be able to handle everything I need for this event. Unless magically my bank balance changes enough for me to go and by a suitable one of my own, but seeing as I can't afford the basics right now, which has been the case this time of month for too long now, so that's kinda wishful thinking. However

Either way I'll see you around & am looking forward to getting the content out that I have planned for this, which I was gonna livestream most of it, but atm my head ain't happy with that idea atm.

However, I am more setup for this with my new desk setup

Whilst this has annoyed me, We find strength from the painful moments