LCA Video is Posted

I'm finally back from LCA (and San Francisco and Seattle, although I haven't posted my LCA pictures yet). It looks like they've already posted the video (search for "luke", then click the ogg link).

As always, there were a lot of great presentations and even more great attendees. I'm not yet recovered enough to give out the link love, and really, I didn't schmooze as much as I should have -- a little too much time in the cocktail bars and trying to find a spicy meal, I think.

Hopefully the video turned out well; I think I kind of stuttered for the first ten minutes or so but then found my groove. I originally intended to spend the talk on directly using Puppet, but after some client work in Seattle I realized it made more sense to really focus on the idea of the Resource Abstraction Layer (RAL), which seemed to go over well. The previous presenter went quite long, despite my best attempts to rudely let him know he should leave, so I had to skip quite a few slides.

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 | Tags: travel, lca, lca08, mel8ourne, puppet, presentation, video, download

In Melbourne for LCA

I'm in Melbourne now for LinuxConf Australia, which last year was my favourite technical conference. Even better is that it's in Melbourne; I quite like Sydney, but I like Melbourne just a bit more, and the location in the city is a bit more central.

And, best of all, I've got a bike this year, which means I'm more mobile and just happier in general.

I think I've got 20 or so posts saved somewhere in my head, but I've been on the road and insanely busy since January 9th, so I haven't had time to get any of them out. Hopefully I'll have a chance to get some of them out this week; conferences are always busy, but there is at least plenty of downtime during them.

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 | Tags: travel, lca, lca2008, mel8ourne, melbourne

Presenting Puppet at LinuxConf.au

My proposal was fortunately accepted at LinuxConf.au, so I will again get the opportunity to visit Melbourne. I was at LCA last year (the video is available) and it was by far the best technical conference I've been to, so I'm thrilled to be able to speak at it again. I'm especially excited because it looks like my wife will be able to attend with me, which will be great.

James Turnbull (for whom I cannot seem to find a good link, but he wrote the Nagios Pro books) has been a big part of getting my talk accepted, at least partially because he's working on a book about Puppet, so he deserves a shout out. And I'm really looking forward to the book; he's been getting active on the mailing list and IRC channel, trying to understand and at the same time fix the documentation, and at the end we'll have a great book to help people learn.

Hopefully the conference will be as great this year as it was last year.

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | Tags: travel, conference, lca, lca08, mel8ourne