Co-Presenter: Kara Sowles The Puppet Community is one of the things that makes Puppet so special, partly because it is filled with amazing, helpful Puppet users from all over the world. It's a great place to get answers to questions, but the real magic is with the people who are contributing answers, bug reports, help, pull requests, and much more. This session will talk about the many ways that people can contribute to the community. This session will cover: * what the community looks like now with some real data from our metrics. * plans we have for improving the community over the next year (or so). * how you can contribute to Puppet and our community.

1. State of the Puppet
Community
Dawn Foster
Director of Community | Puppet Labs
@geekygirldawn
dawn@puppetlabs.com
Kara Sowles
Community Manager | Puppet Labs
@FeyNudibranch
kara@puppetlabs.com
https://puppetlabs.com/community

2. Agenda
Introduction to the Puppet Community
Contributing Online
Contributing In-Person
Ready to Contribute?

3. Defining Community
Product contributors,
module authors, users,
vendors, more.
Open source, commercial,
free time, employment.
Photo by marya

4. Participate
#puppet IRC

5. Contributing Online
to the Puppet Community

6. New Community Metrics
http://bitergia.dev.puppetlabs.com

7. Discussions about Puppet
Mailing Lists: persistent, threaded, asynchronous discussion
IRC: ephemeral, real-time discussion

8. Mailing List Participants
http://bitergia.dev.puppetlabs.com

9. Questions about Puppet
ask.puppetlabs.com: Ask, answer, comment, vote - like Stack Overflow

10. Ask Participants
http://bitergia.dev.puppetlabs.com

11. Contribute Code and Docs
Modules: use existing, share on the Forge, contribute to other’s
Puppet Core Projects: submit pull requests - Facter, PuppetDB, Puppet, etc.
Docs: fixes accepted via email, JIRA tickets, pull requests & more

12. Code & Docs Participants
http://bitergia.dev.puppetlabs.com

13. Module Participants
http://bitergia.dev.puppetlabs.com

14. Offline Contributions
to the Puppet Community

15. talking
about Puppet

16. PuppetConf
Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Contributor
Summit
#puppethack
Pull Request
Hangouts
Config
Management
Camp
FOSDEM
DevOpsDays
Other
Events!

17. Puppet User
Groups
puppetlabs.com/community/PUG
for a full list of the 50 cities with
Puppet User Groups

18. Puppet User
Groups
Interested in starting a PUG?
Come to my workshop today at 5:10pm!

19. Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Upcoming CFPs:
Atlanta
Attend:
Düsseldorf, Melbourne, Seattle, London

20. PuppetConf
Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
PuppetConf 2014:
Hello PORTLAND!

21. PuppetConf
Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups

22. Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Pull Request
Hangouts
PuppetConf
Join the PR Hangout:
Platform: Wednesdays, 10am-12pm PDT
Modules: Thursdays, 10am-11am PDT
link announced on #puppet-dev

23. Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
#puppethack
Pull Request
Hangouts
PuppetConf
online community hack day:
Join us on #puppethack December 3rd!

24. Contributor Summit
Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Contributor
Summit
#puppethack
Pull Request
Hangouts
PuppetConf
Europe 2015:
Join us in Ghent, Belgium, February 4th!

25. Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Contributor
Summit
#puppethack
Pull Request
Hangouts
PuppetConf

26. PuppetConf
Puppet
Camps
Puppet User
Groups
Contributor
Summit
#puppethack
Pull Request
Hangouts
Config
Management
Camp
FOSDEM
DevOpsDays
Other
Events!

27. Puppet Test Pilots

28. Community Guidelines
Be Nice
Encourage
Diversity and
Participation
Keep it Legal
Stay on Topic
Read more at:
bit.ly/eventconduct

29. Community Recognition
Featured Community
Members: Nominate!
Most Valuable Puppeteer
(MVP) 2014...

30. MVP Finalist
Daniele Sluijters
aka daenney
Helps other users on IRC and
the mailing lists

31. MVP Finalist
Felix Frank
Fixes long-standing bugs

32. MVP Finalist
Tim Sharp
aka rodjek
Shares his awesome testing
tools with the community

33. MVP Winner!
Erik Dalén
Gives great feedback to
make PuppetDB better

34. Ready to Contribute?
Q&A / Discussion
File / Fix Bugs
Contribute Code / Docs
Share Modules
PUGs / Camps / PuppetConf
Contributor Events
Learn More: puppetlabs.com/community/participate

35. Thank You!
So much of what makes Puppet amazing is you - the wonderful community.
Dawn Foster
Director of Community | Puppet Labs
@geekygirldawn
dawn@puppetlabs.com
Kara Sowles
Community Manager | Puppet Labs
@FeyNudibranch
kara@puppetlabs.com
https://puppetlabs.com/community