A migraine is taking me down hard this weekend. Here’s hoping it goes away soon. See you all at KubeCon next week. GitOps Con on Monday. [OpenShift Commons Gathering (also live streamed)](https://commons.openshift.org/gatherings/OpenShift_Commons_Gathering_at_Kubecon_EU.html) on Tuesdays. OpenShift.tv KubeCon EU Office Hours on Wednesday through Friday. People How to bust 5 creativity myths with your team “Try these exercises to dispel common misconceptions and infuse more creativity into your day-to-day work– and your team’s.” It helps to span your idea of creativity. There are truly creative works and creative ways to get work done. Are you looking to learn more about observability practices? Join us for o11ycon+hnycon June 9-10! This is the observability event of the year, where people come together to explore cutting-edge observability practices, new tech like OpenTelemetry, and more. Register for this free virtual conference to connect with peers and learn from top Honeycomb customers and observability experts. Guess less and know more with Honeycomb. SPONSORED The Fear Black Employees Carry “The voices of racism and white supremacy are louder than ever, and Black employees — and customers, suppliers, and investors — are living with a primal, existential fear. It’s not hard to understand why: Those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6 included middle-class, middle-aged accountants, doctors, lawyers, shop owners, and even CEOs, from blue states and red states. People have learned that racists are all around them — in their extended families, their neighborhoods, and even among their colleagues. CEOs and other leaders must recognize this problem and address it competently, because ignoring it is not only morally wrong, it’s also bad for business. The author recommends five actions: 1) Commit to listening; 2) Take meaningful action; 3) Reckon with the past, and change the future; 4) Dig deeply to understand your company’s discriminatory practices; and 5) Back up your ideals with real money.” ...

Two weeks before KubeCon EU and the work is ramping up quickly. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, grab yours today. As always, if you are underrepresented in tech and still need a ticket, let me know. I will be busy next week prepping for a flip to Central European Summer Time with a lot going on. On May 3rd, I will be mc’ing GitOps Con. It’s going to be awesome. On May 4th, the first anniversary of OpenShift.tv (yeah, it’s been a year, y’all), I’ll be live streaming OpenShift Commons Gathering hosted by Red Hat (Complimentary Registration Required). I’ll be in the Red Hat booth for a little bit on May 5th. We’ll also be streaming open source project Office Hours throughout KubeCon EU. Finally, on Friday, I’ll be doing my first ever, actual KubeCon talk (I know, weird, right?), How You Can Tell Your Kubernetes Contributor Story with These Tips - Matt Broberg & Chris Short, Red Hat; Kaslin Fields, Google; Peeyush Gupta, DigitalOcean. To say the prep for all this is coming to a head this week is an understatement. The pressure is on. Let’s get it! ...

We’ve had another rough week in the Short household. The adults, at least, are exhausted. Max is fully energized. Sunny is getting nursed back to health. I always try to provide some value in the intro but, I have to say, I almost skipped this week due to everything. Some valuable nuggets live on a few other sites I run. New and old subscribers alike can get some benefit from these: DevOps README.md: What books 📚 to read to learn more about DevOps. DevOps Newsletters intends to be a one stop shop for the best DevOps content from around the world. Kubernetes README: What books 📚 to read to learn more about Kubernetes. Kubernetes News intends to be a resource to help keep up with the wide ranging and rapidly evolving world of Kubernetes. I’m speaking as part of a group talk about non-code contributions, specifically the work we’ve been doing on the Kubernetes Upstream Marketing Team. Please add it to your KubeConEU schedule. ...

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An old headline rears its ugly head again this week. The company that now owns the remnants of The SCO Group (whose claim to fame was going bankrupt in suing Linux distro makers until their dying breath), Xinuos, has decided to try this strategy out for itself in hopes of a different outcome. Xinuos is suing IBM and Red Hat for using Linux. Talk about bringing back ancient memories of trying to keep up with a new and essential thing to me back in the early 2000s: Linux. Back then, getting your hands on Linux was a challenge, and Linux users were easy marks, according to SCO. Back in those days, SCO even said it would go after individual end-users. While it made Linux seem a little untrustworthy at the time to the outsider, insiders knew this was all bullshit. IBM was doubling and tripling down on Linux, and Red Hat was a public company. Yes, there felt like a potential disaster could happen with one lousy court ruling. But that day never came. It was a wilder world back then. ...