--- title: 'Juju Charmer Summit: A Kickoff' description: The first ever Juju Charmer Summit was held this September in the Washington DC area. This event gathered the Juju community into one physical space to share our knowledge, to share success stories and best practices, and to grow our skills together. It also provided everyone the chance to meet Charmers and Juju contributors in […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/juju-charmer-summit-a-kickoff?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [James Donner](https://canonical.com/blog/author/jamesadonner "More about James Donner") 13 November 2015 # Juju Charmer Summit: A Kickoff [Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/juju) --- Share the article The first ever Juju Charmer Summit was held this September in the Washington DC area. This event gathered the Juju community into one physical space to share our knowledge, to share success stories and best practices, and to grow our skills together. It also provided everyone the chance to meet Charmers and Juju contributors in person, which was a welcomed change from mailing lists, IRC and online hangouts. To kick-off the event, the Founder of Ubuntu and Juju, Mark Shuttleworth, joined us via videoconference to share his enthusiasm and vision for Juju, Charms, DevOps and service modeling for the modern computing era. Watch the full presentation to discover; * How charming is fun and easy and becoming even more so, * How charming helps independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers, * How charming helps DevOps practitioners * How to take advantage of best practices for Charm design * How to effectively navigate the Charm roadmap and ecosystem As we count down to the next [Juju Charmer Summit in 2016](http://ubunt.eu/7YEDHK), we’ll be publishing follow-up videos of the conference so that everyone who missed out this time can see what happened. Exciting and “Charming” times are ahead! [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Deploy your Spring Boot application to production](https://canonical.com/blog/deploy-spring-application-to-production) In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the... [Javier de la Puente](https://canonical.com/blog/author/javierdelapuente) 13 January 2026 [### Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation](https://canonical.com/blog/cut-data-center-energy-costs-with-bare-metal-automation) Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your... [David Beamonte](https://canonical.com/blog/author/dbeamonte) 26 June 2025 [### The hitchhiker’s guide to infrastructure modernization](https://canonical.com/blog/hitchhikers-guide-to-infrastructure-modernization) One of my favourite authors, Douglas Adams, once said that “we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” Whilst Adams is right about a lot... [Isobel Kate Maxwell](https://canonical.com/blog/author/iso-maxwell) 24 April 2025 [### Effortless observability for Django applications](https://canonical.com/blog/effortless-observability-for-django-applications) Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has... [jdkandersson](https://canonical.com/blog/author/jdkandersson) 13 March 2025