- Title: DevOps Engineer
- Company: GoDaddy EMEA
- City: Cologne
- Country: Germany
- Twitter: BastelsBlog
- Location: Amsterdam
Tim (bastelfreak) Meusel works as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany where he develops and maintains a big public cloud platform. Tim is pushing and implementing open source solutions at work. He founded the VirtAPI-Stack and besides that he is active as a Vox Pupuli Maintainer. Tim has been doing Sysops stuff since 2009 and playing with Puppet since 2012. Recently he was reelected to serve on the Vox Pupuli Project Management Committee. He enjoys good BBQ and ice hockey.
- Title: Vox Pupuli - The Community behind Puppet
Vox Pupuli is a group of more than 120 puppet module/tooling/documentation authors, all working together to ensure a continuing development process. In 2016 we elected our first Project Management Committee with one of its goals being to include Vox Pupuli as an official project under the Software Conservancy and to guide the community. We do not only provide a home for every orphaned puppet module, but also proper tooling and automation for every interested developer. Some of the most frequently used puppet modules (zabbix, collectd, archive, yum, nginx) are managed by us. Vox Pupuli is in the Top 10 of the most frequent Puppet Forge release groups. Have a look at our funny journey of hunting broken gems and changing upstream software! We invite everybody to participate. We will get into the details of what Vox Pupuli is, how you can interact/contribute/benefit and also we will share some funny and sad stories about all the bugs we discovered in the Puppet and Ruby ecosystem!
- Title: Vox Pupuli - Managing 150 git repositories and contributions at scale
Managing a single FOSS project is hard. You get a ton of of emails from GitHub issues, contributions and people asking for new releases. And every other month your build pipeline fails because one of your project's dependencies introduced a breaking change. Now think about the amount of issues you would have with multiple repos! Vox Pupuli, the community managing over 100 Puppet modules and over 150 git repositories, developed some tooling and best practices to handle the huge amount of repositories and contributions. We would like to introduce you to our way of organizing a FOSS community and share some funny stories about the issues and outages that forced us to develop and improve our tooling.