August's Chicago ALT.NET Meeting on the 13th

As you may have heard, ThoughtWorks, home of CruiseControl.net, has just released Cruise, their commercial product for CI and beyond.

As soon as we heard that news we immediately thought: It would be great if we had someone from TW give us the scoop on that product — especially considering that they already host our meetings. ThoughtWorks was completely on board with that idea and immediately offered to have someone fromt he Cruise team talk to us.

I think we will have a very good presentation and debate. If you are in the area, come join us.

Continuous Integration with Cruise

6:00 pm
Pizza and networking time

6:30 pm
Come see Robert Norton, tech lead of ThoughtWorks Cruise CI/Release Management product, talk about Cruise and how it helps managing software builds and deployments. ThoughtWorks is the force behind the Open Source CruiseControl.net and this new product is their commercial offering in this segment.

7:45 pm
After the Cruise presentation, let’s delve into more discussions about CI and configuration management. Bring your questions and experiences.

• How complete should CI be?
• How frequent?
• How fast?
• What tools are we using for CI?