It's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of CloudAustin and the larger Austin technical community!

This will be our first meeting back in person, and MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED.

***VENUE CHANGE***
We had a problem with the AWS space and will instead be meeting at dadalab in East Austin, note changed location information!

Speakers:
Want to speak? Email ([masked]) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list. Talks are OK, demos are better, and there is a strict 5-minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on! Anyone can speak, but no sales pitches please.

1. Ian Littman - "ECS + Fargate, In Production"
2. Evan Niedojadlo - "Building an SRE process for small organizations"
3. Perry Statham - "A Scenario Meta-Model"
4. Jeremy Meiss - "DevOps before there was DevOps, 20 yr old style"
5. Boyd Hemphill - "Vacay is part of your comp. You should be as good at it as you are at spending your salary."
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7. Eric Long - "A Career in Presales"
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9. Robert Reeves - "Liquibase Data, version the ENTIRE database using git-like workflows."
10. Laura Santamaria - "Doing It Live, the Replay"
11. Shaun Mouton - "Process Inspection"
12. Karlos Knox - "Open Policy Agent"
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Sponsors:
Want to sponsor? Super! For 12 Clouds we usually have lots, multiple food/treats, drinks, door prizes... Contact us, you bring it to the meeting, and we'll list you here and you get a 2 minute pitch. (We don't handle money).

- Microsoft Developer Division, courtesy Mandy Whaley, food
- Coltech.io, courtesy Evan Niedojadlo, festive holiday drinks (eggnog, etc.) , non-alcoholic drinks, sodas, and sparkling water
- Harness.io, courtesy Dave Nielsen, door prize ($100 gift card and $500 Harness CI/CD credit)
- CircleCI, courtesy Jeremy Meiss, door prize (Sony noise cancelling headphones, WH-1000XM4), venue
- Pulumi, courtesy Laura Santamaria, venue
- Advantage Tech, Courtessy Gina Lichtmann, door prizes (2 $150 Amazon gift cards)

Other groups joining us:
Various other user groups will be joining us for this festive holiday celebration - if your local tech user group wants to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, sure! Comment to the effect of "add in XX" below and then point your members to this invite! You can also post it on your own Meetup but please ask members to also RSVP here because this will have the correct meeting link when the time comes.

- Austin DevOps - https://www.meetup.com/austin-devops
- The Austin Automation Professionals - https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Automation-Professionals/
- Austin Computer Book Club - https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Computer-Book-Club/
- Austin C++ Mentoring and Study Group - meetup.com/cppmsg

What's 12 Clouds?
You can see previous years' 12 Clouds lineups for
2020 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfrybcqbtb/)
2019 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfryzqbwb/),
2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/gxwbkpyxqbxb/),
2017 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnywqbzb/),
2016 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/qlldhhyvqbbc/),
2015 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/226373629/),
2014 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/212248062/),
2013 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/140828762/),
2012 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-cloud-user-group-meeting-december-18-2012-tickets-4922596619),
and 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1BT9T2tcw).