Puppet users - Mar 2008 - Discounts to O'Reilly's Velocity conference in June

Hi all,

O''Reilly is having their first-ever operations (and performance)  
conference this summer, June 23 and 24, and they''ve provided me a  
discount code that will get you 25% off of the registration to the  
conference.  Just use ''vel08red'' when registering.

I''ll certainly be at the conference, hopefully speaking, and Adam  
Jacob already has a speaking slot.

I''ve also got a ticket to give out to the community, and I''m
trying to
come up with the best contest for giving out the ticket.  I''m thinking
it should be an award for community participation -- bug-fixing, wiki  
farming, etc. -- but it can''t take 2 months to figure out.  The ticket
should be given out soon, to give people time to arrange travel, if  
necessary.

So, how about this:  If you''re interested in a free ticket, send me a  
note, and I''ll choose the most deserving party based on the number of  
wiki edits + commits you''ve made, with a preference toward commits.

(Note that O''Reilly is giving me a free ticket to the conference, and  
I''m helping to organize it.  That could be considered sponsorship of  
this email, but I''m pretty excited about the conference.)

Cheers,
Luke

-- 
I don''t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the
truth even if it costs them their jobs. -- Samuel Goldwyn
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Hi Luke,

I''m definitely interested. I don''t know that I''m the
most deserving
here, but I''d like to be considered.

Thanks for sharing the savings :-D

--Paul

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  O''Reilly is having their first-ever operations (and performance)
>  conference this summer, June 23 and 24, and they''ve provided me a
>  discount code that will get you 25% off of the registration to the
>  conference.  Just use ''vel08red'' when registering.
>
>  I''ll certainly be at the conference, hopefully speaking, and Adam
>  Jacob already has a speaking slot.
>
>  I''ve also got a ticket to give out to the community, and
I''m trying to
>  come up with the best contest for giving out the ticket.  I''m
thinking
>  it should be an award for community participation -- bug-fixing, wiki
>  farming, etc. -- but it can''t take 2 months to figure out.  The
ticket
>  should be given out soon, to give people time to arrange travel, if
>  necessary.
>
>  So, how about this:  If you''re interested in a free ticket, send
me a
>  note, and I''ll choose the most deserving party based on the
number of
>  wiki edits + commits you''ve made, with a preference toward
commits.
>
>  (Note that O''Reilly is giving me a free ticket to the conference,
and
>  I''m helping to organize it.  That could be considered sponsorship
of
>  this email, but I''m pretty excited about the conference.)
>
>  Cheers,
>  Luke
>
>  --
>  I don''t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me
the
>  truth even if it costs them their jobs. -- Samuel Goldwyn
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>
>
>  >
>
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On Mar 31, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> O''Reilly is having their first-ever operations (and performance)  
> conference this summer, June 23 and 24, and they''ve provided me a
> discount code that will get you 25% off of the registration to the  
> conference.  Just use ''vel08red'' when registering.
>
> I''ll certainly be at the conference, hopefully speaking, and Adam
> Jacob already has a speaking slot.
>
> I''ve also got a ticket to give out to the community, and
I''m trying
> to come up with the best contest for giving out the ticket.  I''m  
> thinking it should be an award for community participation -- bug- 
> fixing, wiki farming, etc. -- but it can''t take 2 months to figure
> out.  The ticket should be given out soon, to give people time to  
> arrange travel, if necessary.
I only got three requests for the free ticket, and based on his varied  
work in the Puppet ecosystem, I''ve decided to give it to Paul  
Lathrop.  He''s been active on the mailing lists and IRC, and according
to Ohloh he''s got six commits.

Cheers to Paul.

-- 
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
wrote:
>  I''ll certainly be at the conference, hopefully speaking, and Adam
>  Jacob already has a speaking slot.
The talk I''m giving is about how (and why) we build automated
infrastructure, and will include some examples of how we use Puppet.
I''m giving a less technical version of the talk at the Web 2.0 Expo,
and I''ll post the slide deck to the list once it''s ready.

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Jacob, Senior Partner
T: (206) 508-4759 E: adam@hjksolutions.com

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