On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Hi all > > I am thrilled to announce our new Community Manager: Dawn Foster. Dawn > joins us from Intel where she managed several open source communities > (I'm going to let her introduce herself in more detail in a later email). > Thanks! I'm really excited to be joining Puppet Labs as the new Community Manager. My first day at Puppet Labs was at PuppetConf, which was both awesome and a bit surreal at the same time. I'm now in day 5, and I think I'm already behind. Here is a little background to help you understand why I'm crazy enough to want to be an open source community manager. I've been working with open source communities mostly full-time for the past 12 years, and I've been using open source software since the early 90's. I've been a UNIX sys admin, a programmer, a program manager, a market researcher and more. I've managed quite a few open source communities over the past few years, including Tizen and MeeGo while working in Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Openfire at Jive Software, etc. I also have a BS in Computer Science and an MBA, which just proves that I'm one of those weird people who likes to take classes and hang out at Universities. On a personal note, I ... * drink too much green tea * am a data / metrics geek * actually enjoy running and lifting weights * wrote 2 books: one on community and a vegan cookbook * read a lot of science fiction / fantasy (see my website for a list) > > Dawn will initially be lurking and getting to know you all. She's going > to have a focus on helping us communicate better, making the > relationship between the community and Puppet Labs work better, > extending our developer community, helping getting traction on tickets > and features the community wants, sharing lots of cool metrics and > generally working to make Puppet and the community more awesome. > To avoid doing anything too stupid in my first month, I will spend most of my time lurking, learning and working on published community metrics. As I mentioned during PuppetConf, feel free to let me me know * what you love about the Puppet Community (I'll try not to screw it up) * what you don't like (I'll try to fix it) * when someone isn't responding (I can glare at the right person until we reply to pull requests, bugs or other neglected bits) You can find me here on the mailing lists or via: * email: d...@puppetlabs.com * Twitter and other sites: @geekygirldawn * IRC: DawnFoster * Website: http://fastwonderblog.com Oh, and I can also be a little long-winded (fair warning). Dawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
