Hey there.
I just moved to Portland this week to take a job with Puppet Labs.
I've been a Debian user for longer than I care to calculate right now,
but my involvement for the last few years has been as a DM with the
puppet/facter packages. I'm aiming to go for DD in the near future,
but wanted to say hi to you all as I'd like to come along to the next
social event.
Background... I'm Australian, I moved over to the Bay Area to take a
sysadmin role at Google about 4 years ago, and spent a lot of time on
the internal Mac/Linux teams, working with Ubuntu and Puppet. I'm
fascinated by config management at scale, and treating infrastructure
as code.
I have an 8 year old daughter and a 4 year old son who will be
following me up here with my wife once I actually find a house... and
apart from that my non-computer interests tend to be around cricket,
music and cognitive science.
I also like beer and cheap delicious food. So far Portland is working
out well. :)
based on the results from the poll a while back, seems like thursday nights
were the most viable option for folks in general (works for me, additionally).
i figure 3rd thursdays is less likely to conflict with holidays, at least till
the end of the year.
somewhere at least moderately central:
lucky lab (se hawthorne and 9th/10th ave), http://www.luckylab.com.
given the above information, i propose to have the first monthly shindig at the
lucky lab, this coming thursday (the 21st) at 7:30pm.
hopefully see you there!
live well,
vagrant
I actually should have written this a week ago.
For work reasons, I have left Portland and now live in San
Francisco. It was fun having met you all in person, and I wish I'd had
the sense to look for this list before. I'll make sure not to repeat
that same mistake now. And SF is not *that* far, so I might just get a
chance now and then to visit.
Good bye, and thanks for all the beer.
PS: Steve, thanks for the pointers you gave me. In the end, my current
company's offer was too good to pass up, though.
--
Rodrigo I-actually-kind-of-miss-the-rain Gallardo
