<p>We are working out details of recording the event.<br>
Aaron has been and will be for the foreseeable future quite busy with a serious family health issue. <br>
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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2011 8:59 AM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Is this going to be filmed and made available later? I'd like to hear<br>
it, but making it downtown is tough.<br>
<br>
Also, did the SSH presentation ever get posted?<br>
<br>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:51, Aaron Ruscetta <<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at<br>
> 7:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011 will be:<br>
><br>
> A Pioneering Introduction to Puppet<br>
> with Matt Urbanski<br>
><br>
> Synopsis:<br>
> -- Puppet is a configuration management tool written in ruby that<br>
> allows a sysadmin to wield their influence and expertise over far<br>
> more machines than one could without it. It uses a simple but<br>
> powerful DSL which I would like to introduce to everyone who is<br>
> not familiar with it, and open a dialogue about how our role as<br>
> admins is changing with the scalability problems we are faced with.<br>
><br>
> Bio:<br>
> – Matt Urbanski is a functional programmer turned sysadmin. His last<br>
> awesome job was in high frequency trading, administrating a super<br>
> low latency MAN and optimizing trading algorithms. He also worked for<br>
> an advertising firm in Europe administrating hundreds of cloud based<br>
> apache instances for serving ads where they were needed, when they<br>
> were paid for, using puppet.<br>
> - Matt is currently working for a medtech/bioinformatics firm, selling<br>
> data to oncologists and the pharma industry. He is also involved in<br>
> a new professional group focusing on agile system administration<br>
> tools and techniques: <http ://<a href="http://smartopsatlanta.org" target="_blank">smartopsatlanta.org</a>><br>
<br>
--<br>
James Sumners<br>
<a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
<br>
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts<br>
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it<br>
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
<br>
Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
CH:D 59<br>
<br>
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