BayLISA special meeting - August 30, 7pm

Mon Aug 21 11:27:21 PDT 2006

More details to follow, but I wanted to get the word out that there will 
be a special BayLISA meeting next week.  Luke Kanies who created puppet 
will be in town, and he has agreed to present on Wednesday, August 30.

Luke gave the impromptu talk last December that won the "Best talk of the 
night".

If you don't know what puppet is, please check out the website at 
http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/

Snagged from the faq:
What is Puppet?

Puppet is an open-source next-generation server automation tool. It is 
composed of a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a 
client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the 
configuration.

The primary design goal of Puppet is that it have an expressive enough 
language backed by a powerful enough library that you can write your own 
server automation applications in just a few lines of code. With Puppet, 
you can express the configuration of your entire network in one program 
capable of realizing the configuration. The fact that Puppet has open 
source combined with how easily it can be extended means that you can add 
whatever functionality you think is missing and then contribute it back to 
the main project if you desire.