On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:58:02 PM UTC-5, Dawn Foster wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, James Turnbull > <ja...@puppetlabs.com<javascript:> > > 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. >
Welcome! What a day to make your debut on the group, just as the biggest controversy in months seems to be breaking! > > 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) > > It sounds like you'll fit in just fine with the rest of us geeks. Don't worry, we're mostly harmless. > >> 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: da...@puppetlabs.com <javascript:> > * Twitter and other sites: @geekygirldawn > * IRC: DawnFoster > * Website: http://fastwonderblog.com > > Oh, and I can also be a little long-winded (fair warning). > Duly noted, and that's more warning than I ever gave.... Cheers, John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/YZYFFA0ZEvgJ. 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.
