Puppet users - Jun 2008 - Puppet meetup/miniconf in SF Next Thursday

Hi all,

Andrew and I will be in SF all next week for Velocity, Cloudcamp, and  
Structure, so we decided to have a quick miniconf on Thursday night.

Jay Aras has set up a conference room for us from 7pm until 8 (he''ll  
be following up with a location), and I figure after that we''ll head  
to a bar and you can all buy me all those drinks you keep saying you  
owe me. :)

We figure the miniconf will be a series of very short talks -- 5-8  
minutes each.  Any Puppet-related content would be great -- what  
you''re doing with it, what your bosses say about it, what you wish it  
did, etc.

If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on  
having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb drive or  
emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around  
takes too much time.

I hope to see many of you then.

-- 
Dawkins''s Law of Adversarial Debate:
     When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity,
     the truth does not lie half way between them.
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Hey Gang,

The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite 300.
The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going to take the muni
get off at the ballpark.

If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more than the
hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is having a meeting
anytime after 6/6:30.

-j

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Andrew and I will be in SF all next week for Velocity, Cloudcamp, and
> Structure, so we decided to have a quick miniconf on Thursday night.
>
> Jay Aras has set up a conference room for us from 7pm until 8
(he''ll
> be following up with a location), and I figure after that we''ll
head
> to a bar and you can all buy me all those drinks you keep saying you
> owe me. :)
>
> We figure the miniconf will be a series of very short talks -- 5-8
> minutes each.  Any Puppet-related content would be great -- what
> you''re doing with it, what your bosses say about it, what you wish
it
> did, etc.
>
> If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on
> having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb drive
or
> emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around
> takes too much time.
>
> I hope to see many of you then.
>
> --
> Dawkins''s Law of Adversarial Debate:
>     When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity,
>     the truth does not lie half way between them.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>
>
> >
>
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I''ll be there.

-Blake

On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Jason Aras wrote:
> Hey Gang,
>
> The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite  
> 300.  The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going to  
> take the muni get off at the ballpark.
>
> If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more  
> than the hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is  
> having a meeting anytime after 6/6:30.
>
> -j
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>  
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Andrew and I will be in SF all next week for Velocity, Cloudcamp, and
> Structure, so we decided to have a quick miniconf on Thursday night.
>
> Jay Aras has set up a conference room for us from 7pm until 8
(he''ll
> be following up with a location), and I figure after that we''ll
head
> to a bar and you can all buy me all those drinks you keep saying you
> owe me. :)
>
> We figure the miniconf will be a series of very short talks -- 5-8
> minutes each.  Any Puppet-related content would be great -- what
> you''re doing with it, what your bosses say about it, what you wish
it
> did, etc.
>
> If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on
> having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb drive
or
> emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around
> takes too much time.
>
> I hope to see many of you then.
>
> --
> Dawkins''s Law of Adversarial Debate:
>     When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity,
>     the truth does not lie half way between them.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>
>
>
>
>
> >

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Another good place to gather would be the Ignite! Velocity:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/738487/

It''s free, and you''ll probably find lots of like-minded folk
to mingle with.

Adam

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Blake Barnett <shadoi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''ll be there.
> -Blake
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Jason Aras wrote:
>
> Hey Gang,
>
> The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite 300.
> The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going to take the
muni
> get off at the ballpark.
>
> If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more than the
> hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is having a meeting
> anytime after 6/6:30.
>
> -j
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Andrew and I will be in SF all next week for Velocity, Cloudcamp, and
>> Structure, so we decided to have a quick miniconf on Thursday night.
>>
>> Jay Aras has set up a conference room for us from 7pm until 8
(he''ll
>> be following up with a location), and I figure after that
we''ll head
>> to a bar and you can all buy me all those drinks you keep saying you
>> owe me. :)
>>
>> We figure the miniconf will be a series of very short talks -- 5-8
>> minutes each.  Any Puppet-related content would be great -- what
>> you''re doing with it, what your bosses say about it, what you
wish it
>> did, etc.
>>
>> If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on
>> having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb
drive or
>> emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around
>> takes too much time.
>>
>> I hope to see many of you then.
>>
>> --
>> Dawkins''s Law of Adversarial Debate:
>>     When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity,
>>     the truth does not lie half way between them.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
>


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T: (206) 508-4759 E: adam@hjksolutions.com

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I''m flying out on Tuesday night, so Thursday is a no-go for me :(

Is anyone interested in meeting up on Sunday night for dinner?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Andrew and I will be in SF all next week for Velocity, Cloudcamp, and
> Structure, so we decided to have a quick miniconf on Thursday night.
>
> Jay Aras has set up a conference room for us from 7pm until 8
(he''ll
> be following up with a location), and I figure after that we''ll
head
> to a bar and you can all buy me all those drinks you keep saying you
> owe me. :)
>
> We figure the miniconf will be a series of very short talks -- 5-8
> minutes each.  Any Puppet-related content would be great -- what
> you''re doing with it, what your bosses say about it, what you wish
it
> did, etc.
>
> If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on
> having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb drive
or
> emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around
> takes too much time.
>
> I hope to see many of you then.
>
> --
> Dawkins''s Law of Adversarial Debate:
>     When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity,
>     the truth does not lie half way between them.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
>
>
> >
>
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On Jun 19, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Gary Richardson wrote:
> I''m flying out on Tuesday night, so Thursday is a no-go for me :(
>
> Is anyone interested in meeting up on Sunday night for dinner?

I''d like to do so, but I think that''s going to be the only
night off I
have that week, and my wife is going to be in town with me for the  
weekend, so I unfortunately need to beg off.

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Any interest in seeing CloudScale demo''ed?



--Randy



Randy Bias, chief tactician, neoTactics, Inc.
(877) NEO-TKTX, randyb@neotactics.com


On Jun 19, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Luke Kanies wrote:
> If you are interested in giving one, please email Jay.  If you plan on
> having slides, it''d be easiest if you brought them on a usb drive
or
> emailed them to Jay beforehand, since swapping the projector around
> takes too much time.

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In the interests of re-invigorating interest in this in case it''s of  
interest.  The CloudScale system is basically a cloud management  
system that allows creating groups (''application
architectures'') of
servers, each with a role (''purpose''), which can then be
sequenced up
(multiple VM dependency ordering: ''db'' before
''app'' before ''web'') on
the cloud of your choice (EC2 only now, GoGrid next month).

The system has been in production for 3 months with our first  
customer.  It can be thought of as RightScale meets Vertebra.  It does  
not use XMPP, but another async messaging bus, which supports multiple  
protocols, including XMPP.  It predates Vertebra by about 9 months and  
was in prototype stage about the same time RightScale went BETA.

Unlike all of our competitors, Puppet is a core component and you can  
upload Puppet configurations into the system.  Our reference customer  
uses it do dynamically deploy and scale a multi-tier web application  
on EC2 for QA & testing.  The web app has 5 separate server roles,  
each of which have as many as 1-5 nodes each.

I can''t say too much more about it in this forum except that
we''ll be
surfacing it more publicly soon and I thought some of the local  
Puppeteers in the SF Bay Area might like to see a fairly sophisticated  
management system that rides on top of Puppet.  It''s the only one I  
know of.


Best,



--Randy


Randy Bias, chief tactician, neoTactics, Inc.
(877) NEO-TKTX, randyb@neotactics.com


On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Randy Bias wrote:
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> Any interest in seeing CloudScale demo''ed?
>
>
>
> --Randy

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On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:27 -0700, Jason Aras wrote:
> The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite
> 300.  The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going to
> take the muni get off at the ballpark.
> 
> If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more
> than the hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is
> having a meeting anytime after 6/6:30.
Excellent ... I''ll be there and bring some Augeas slides in case we run
out of other things to talk about ;)

David



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On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:08 PM, David Lutterkort <dlutter@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:27 -0700, Jason Aras wrote:
>> The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite
>> 300.  The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going to
>> take the muni get off at the ballpark.
>>
>> If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more
>> than the hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is
>> having a meeting anytime after 6/6:30.
I will be there.  I can bring some details about how we use puppet and
some of the growing pains we''re experiencing.

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On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Joel Krauska wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:08 PM, David Lutterkort  
> <dlutter@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:27 -0700, Jason Aras wrote:
>>> The address is 139 Townsend St. and the conference room is in suite
>>> 300.  The Caltrain stop is a few blocks away and if you are going
to
>>> take the muni get off at the ballpark.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions let me know.  We can probably spend more
>>> than the hour in the conference room as well.  I doubt anyone is
>>> having a meeting anytime after 6/6:30.
>
> I will be there.  I can bring some details about how we use puppet and
> some of the growing pains we''re experiencing.
Great.

Andrew and I will be giving shirts out to the first 15 or so people  
who show up, and we''ll also give a shirt to everyone who presents.

You should see pics of the shirts show up on my flickr feed[1] just as  
soon as I can get this hotel wireless to let me upload them.

1 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkanies/

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