Introducing our new Community Manager - Dawn Foster

[James Turnbull]

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).

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.

Please make Dawn welcome!

Regards

James

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[Kelsey Hightower]

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Welcome to Puppet Labs Dawn!

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[Jos Backus]

Welcome, Dawn :)

Jos

[Dawn Foster]

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: da...@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