[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 10:12:05 EST 2011


We are working out details of recording the event.
Aaron has been and will be for the foreseeable future quite busy with a
serious family health issue.
Please, everyone direct all ALE questions to me, Jim Kinney, as I will be
attempting to fill in while Aaron cares for his life partner, Sally.
On Nov 14, 2011 8:59 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this going to be filmed and made available later? I'd like to hear
> it, but making it downtown is tough.
>
> Also, did the SSH presentation ever get posted?
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:51, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
> > 7:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011 will be:
> >
> > A Pioneering Introduction to Puppet
> > with Matt Urbanski
> >
> > Synopsis:
> > -- Puppet is a configuration management tool written in ruby that
> > allows a sysadmin to wield their influence and expertise over far
> > more machines than one could without it.  It uses a simple but
> > powerful DSL which I would like to introduce to everyone who is
> > not familiar with it, and open a dialogue about how our role as
> > admins is changing with the scalability problems we are faced with.
> >
> > Bio:
> > – Matt Urbanski is a functional programmer turned sysadmin. His last
> > awesome job was in high frequency trading, administrating a super
> > low latency MAN and optimizing trading algorithms. He also worked for
> > an advertising firm in Europe administrating hundreds of cloud based
> > apache instances for serving ads where they were needed, when they
> > were paid for, using puppet.
> > - Matt is currently working for a medtech/bioinformatics firm, selling
> > data to oncologists and the pharma industry.  He is also involved in
> > a new professional group focusing on agile system administration
> > tools and techniques: <http ://smartopsatlanta.org>
>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
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>
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