Would Tracking PowerShell Sessions be Helpful?

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Hi all!

TLDR: Would it be helpful to track PowerShell-related sessions at non-PowerShell events, rather than just tracking PowerShell-related events?

Longer story:

So! Personally, I've found that sessions covering $OtherTechnology through PowerShell fairly helpful.

Folks presenting on how to automate and configure SQL Server, VMware, Azure, Active Directory, and the many other technologies PowerShell can interface with tend to be good folks to learn from.

That being said, as is, it's difficult to track these. PowerShell.org events currently orient around entire events that solely focus on PowerShell - PowerShell User Groups, Summits, and so forth. At the moment, it seems hard to find events that happen to have a PowerShell track, or a few solid PowerShell sessions, unless you're already looking at those events.

Why would this be helpful?

• It would give you an idea of which local (or other) events have solid PowerShell content
• It would give user group leaders a pointer to folks who are temporarily in town that they might be able to recruit

For example, we were lucky enough to catch that @harmj0y and @enigma0x3 were in town for BSides Boston, and were able to recruit them for an awesome security-oriented PowerShell user group when they were in town.

Another example that didn't work out so well: The other day, there was a VMUG in Boston, with at least one PowerShell oriented session lead by @kmruddy. Who knows if he would have been up for it, but it would have been fun to have the option to see if he would be interested in presenting, or joining the user group for a night.

What might we track?

To follow along with the PowerShell.org guidance, we would stick to events that are nonprofit, not-for-profit, or otherwise noncommercial. Thankfully, most conferences and tech events fit the bill, meaning we could track...

• PowerShell-related sessions at user groups and mini-conferences. SQL Saturdays. VMUGs. Azure user groups. DevOpsDays. You name it.
• PowerShell-related sessions at conferences. LISA, BSides, DerbyCon, MMS, etc.

What say you? Would it be worth tracking this? Would it dilute the PowerShell.org events too much? Would you find this information helpful? Do you already know about these sessions? Feel free to comment below or reply to the tweet!

Cheers!

I think this would be pretty useful for a couple of reasons:

1. It'd help people find more events/presentations/etc to attend in general.
2. It's a good way to start bridging the gaps between communities - I think there's an argument to be made that this will benefit everyone.
3. It's good for historical purposes - eg "Last year there were X events featuring PowerShell, but since the release of WS2016 we've seen that number go up by Y; adoption is steadily increasing at what seems to be measurable rate Z."

I think this would be a brilliant idea. (Disclaimer - I speak at SQL Saturdays and usually speak about PowerShell)

Also SQL Saturday Manchester July 23rd has a Powershell track organised by @kilasuit would be worth adding