## Community: events and usage of FaaS

### Events 2017

| Event name and description                                          | Speaker      | Location | Date        |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|----------|-------------|
| [Whaleless!](http://gluecon.com/#agenda) | Amir Chaudhry | GlueCon, CO | 26-May-2017 |
| [Dockercon closing keynote](https://blog.docker.com/2017/04/dockercon-2017-mobys-cool-hack-sessions/) | Alex Ellis | Dockercon, Austin | 20-April-2017 |
| [TechLancaster](http://techlancaster.com/meetup)| Austin Frey | Lancaster, PA | 18-April-2017 |
| [ETH Polymese](https://www.polymesse.ch/current-presentations.html)| Brian Christner   | Zürich   | 4-April-2017 |
| [Operationalizing Containers](http://www.rackspace-inform.eu/dispatcher/action?wlmsac=t1ejSDdh1hygBurJJANV)| Brian Christner   | Zürich   | 5-April-2017 |
| [FaaS on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13920588)| Alex Ellis   | Online   | 22-Mar-2017 |

### Blog posts and write-ups

| Blog/repo name and description                                          | Author       | Site     | Date        |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|----------|-------------|
| [O’Reilly Systems Engineering and Operations newsletter](http://post.oreilly.com/form/oreilly/viewhtml/9z1zlu60fomtoiq41cigtigddvnejvh4vjjfm0i1sh8) | O'Reilly | oreilly.com | 11-Apr-2017 |
| [Test Driving Docker Functions as a Service (FaaS)](https://www.brianchristner.io/test-driving-docker-function-as-a-service-faas/) | Brian Christner | brianchristner.io | 10-Apr-2017 |
| [Open source project uses Docker for serverless computing](http://www.infoworld.com/article/3184757/open-source-tools/open-source-project-uses-docker-for-serverless-computing.html#tk.twt_ifw)| Serdar Yegulalp  | InfoWorld.com   | 27-Mar-2017 |
| [Docker-awesome curated projects](https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker#serverless) | Julien Bisconti | Github.com | 23-Mar-2017 |
| [Functions as a Service (FaaS) in French](http://blog.alexellis.io/fonction-service/) | Alex Ellis | alexellis.io | 13-Jan-2017 |
| [Functions as a Service (FaaS)](http://blog.alexellis.io/functions-as-a-service/) | Alex Ellis | alexellis.io | 4-Jan-2017 |


### Projects / Use cases
| Project name and description                                         | Author     | Site      | Date        |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|-----------|-------------|
| [Dockercon FaaS demos including Alexa/Github](https://github.com/alexellis/faas-dockercon) | Alex Ellis | github.com | 14-Apr-2017 |
| [Docker Birthday voting app ported to FaaS](https://github.com/alexellis/faas-example-voting-app) | Alex Ellis | github.com | 14-Apr-2017 |
| [Github-Airtable Bug Tracker integration](https://github.com/aafrey/faas-demo) | Austin Frey | github.com/aafrey/faas-demo | 10-April-2017 |
| [Github - ascii art generator](https://github.com/developius/faas-node-ascii) | Finnian Anderson | [developius/faas-node-ascii](https://github.com/developius/faas-node-ascii) | 17-April-2017 |
| [Github - URL Shortener](https://github.com/developius/faas-node-url-shortener) | Finnian Anderson | [developius/faas-node-url-shortener](https://github.com/developius/faas-node-url-shortener) | 19-April-2017 |
| [Github - fibonacci numbers up to N](https://github.com/developius/faas-python-fib/) | Finnian Anderson | [developius/faas-python-fib/](https://github.com/developius/faas-python-fib/) | 19-April-2017 |

### Use-case template

**Name / company**

* What we're using FaaS for

* Key feature

* We wish FaaS could...