Bringing together developers and operations people united in a common goal: destroy silos and remove obstacle to deploy and maintain awesome software and reliable infrastructures. Monitoring, continuous integration, packaging and automated deployment will all be covered. It's going to be fun too!

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

Smart Systems may well change the way that local governments, in particular, are organised. Instead of being a collection of departmental silos, they could come to resemble computing platforms. Most services, from payment systems to traffic information, would be provided in only one version and used by all departments – or by private firms that want to offer their own urban applications. There is strong demand for making cities smarter. Without an infrastructure enhanced by digital technology it …