1. State of the Community
James Turnbull, Dawn Foster, Andy Parker | Puppet Labs
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dawn@puppetlabs.com
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2. Me
• Wrote some stuff
• VP Technical Ops at Puppet Labs
• Funny accent
• Film fan
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3. Favorite film?
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4. Awwww!
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5. Agenda
• Introductions
• The state of the community
• Initiatives
• Ask not what your community can do for you
• Questions
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6. Introductions
New faces

7. Introductions
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8. Dawn Foster
• 2 day at Puppet Labs as Community Manager
nd
• Previous Open Source Community Manager:
Tizen, MeeGo, Openfire, others
• Early Career: Sys Admin, Programmer, Market
Researcher, Program Manager
• Education: BS in Computer Science, MBA
• Getting Started (1st month): Lurking, learning and
working on published community metrics
• Info: dawn@puppetlabs.com, @geekygirldawn,
DawnFoster (IRC), fastwonderblog.com
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9. Andy Parker
• Puppet Team Lead
• Software Developer
• One time (long ago) cfengine user
• Cyclist
• New to open source development
• Come talk to me!
• Info: andy@puppetlabs.com, zaphod42 (IRC)
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10. Eric Sorenson
• Puppet Platform Product Owner
• SysAdmin at a large Cupertino fruit company
• Mad keen cyclist
• Go talk to him!
• Info: eric.sorenson@puppetlabs.com, eric0
(IRC)
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11. Show me the metrics!
Lies, damn lies, and statistics

12. The year that was…
• Puppet user mailing list membership was 3000
• With about 600 messages a month
• The #puppet IRC channel averaged 400
people
• Puppet on GitHub had 200 forks and 400
watchers
• We had 50 modules on the Forge
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13. The year that is…
• Puppet users mailing list membership is
almost 5000
• With 1200 messages a month
• The #puppet IRC channel averages 800
people
• Puppet on GitHub has 350 forks and 950
watchers
• We have over 500 modules on the Forge
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14. Inconceivable!
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15. You keep using that word. I do not think it means
what you think it means.
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16. But what about the Rodents of Unu^H^H
Errr….
Development?
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17. How much is going on?
2464 2447
Commits
1265 1254
1205
1123
930
475
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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18. But who is doing all this?
187
99
158
80
Contributors
Commits/Contributor
50
41
63
34
37
19 30
22 25 24
6
3
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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19. What does it all add up to?
141,126
137,743
116
108
108,636
103,118
86
82
89,304 77
76,891 SLOC
# Providers
58
50,497 42
21,635
12
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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20. So what’s next?
For the Puppet community

21. Initiatives
• Questions and Answers
• More responsive
• More metrics
• More awesome
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22. Q&A site
• Not everyone likes mailing lists
• Leverage success of sites like Stackoverflow
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23. More responsive
• We suck sometimes
• We’re getting better
• Really.
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24. More responsive
Call us out if we’re not!
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25. More metrics
• It’s cool to understand how many of you there
are
• It’s even cooler to try to understand who you
are
• We’d like to actually know what you want!
• We want to be transparent and accountable
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26. More awesome
• Talk to us
• Complain to us
• Give us feedback we can action
• Help us out!
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27. Ask not what your community
can do for you but what you can do for your community

28. The Puppet Community
We want you!
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29. We need your help!
• Documentation
• Facter
• Code & Tests (and Testing)
• Modules!
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30. Documentation
• Docs site: http://docs.puppetlabs.com
• GitHub: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-
docs
• Redmine:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet-
docs
• Open a ticket! Or better fix a ticket!
• Send us a pull request
• Profit!
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31. Facter
• Have a platform Facter doesn’t know about?
• Have a resource or infrastructure component
you’d like exposed?
• Test coverage == teh awesome
• GitHub: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
• Redmine:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter
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32. Modules
• Share and publish your modules
• Fork and develop modules
• Module bounties!
• Module A, B, and C
• Forge: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
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33. Code & Testing
• Triage Puppet bugs and features
• Write code
• Write tests
• Test releases!
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34. I can do that?
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35. Yes you bloody well can
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36. Get some tips
• Getting Started with Contributing to Puppet
and Facter
• Hailee, Tesca and Ruth
• Meeting Room 1 at 1.15pm
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37. Questions

38. Oh and BTW….
• PuppetCamp Nuremberg
• October 19th, 2012
• http://www.netways.de/puppetcamp
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39. Thank you!
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