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The Butler Serves at DevOps World
Oct. 19th, 2023 10:04 pmToday was the main day of DevOps World Silicon Valley. As I explained last night, I dressed today as Jenkins the Butler— the logo/mascot/logo/spirit of the open-source project Jenkins CI. And unlike past shows when I've portrayed Jenkins, I stayed in costume the whole day today.
Yes, I dressed like the guy in the logo. Yes, I did it convincingly. I posed with a lot of people who wanted selfies and group pictures with Jenkins the Butler. When one of my company execs saw me in character this morning he asked me to present one of his slides on stage during his keynote. We agreed before the keynote and spent two minutes discussing the slide together... and that was all the prep I had. I killed it. Our company founder transcribed my presentation and shared it with the company on Slack. Later in the day I did a 15-minute streaming TV interview with an industry journalist in character.
I'll post pics and links for these Jenkins hijinks tomorrow or this weekend, when I have time and energy. Right now it's late in the evening and I am tired from wearing a tuxedo all day and being in character.
Yes, I dressed like the guy in the logo. Yes, I did it convincingly. I posed with a lot of people who wanted selfies and group pictures with Jenkins the Butler. When one of my company execs saw me in character this morning he asked me to present one of his slides on stage during his keynote. We agreed before the keynote and spent two minutes discussing the slide together... and that was all the prep I had. I killed it. Our company founder transcribed my presentation and shared it with the company on Slack. Later in the day I did a 15-minute streaming TV interview with an industry journalist in character.
I'll post pics and links for these Jenkins hijinks tomorrow or this weekend, when I have time and energy. Right now it's late in the evening and I am tired from wearing a tuxedo all day and being in character.
