1. Ansible Munich Meetup
February 28, 2019
Carol Chen
Senior Community Architect
Twitter, GitHub, freenode IRC: @cybette

2. Thank you!!
● Mihai Satmarean for overall organising
● bbv Software Services for sponsoring and hosting
● Daniel Fussy and Daniel Messer for speaking
● All of you for attending
Acknowledgements
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3. What's a "working group"
● SIG (Special Interest Group)
● Self-organising group of people with common interest
● Not just programmers
○ Testing
○ Docs
○ Outreach
● What problems need solving?
● https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki
Ansible Working Groups
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4. Working Groups
Find us on Freenode IRC
● #ansible-devel (docker, testing)
● #ansible-aws
● #ansible-azure
● #ansible-community
● #ansible-container
● #ansible-galaxy (ansible-lint)
Channels listed here as they are added:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/community/communication.html
Ansible Working Groups
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● #ansible-linode
● #anisble-molecule
● #ansible-network
● #ansible-vmware
● #ansible-windows

5. PR Review days
● By any metric Ansible is popular
● 1,600 open PRs
● Monthly PR review day: github.com/ansible/community#407
○ Excellent way to contribute
○ All you need is IRC, GitHub and a bit of free time
○ Nov, Dec 2018; Feb 2019. Next session TBD
● Working group specific triage starting 2019
Triage and PR review
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6. Ansible 2.8
● Planned: May 2019
● https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst
/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_8.rst
● New porting guides
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/porting_guides/
Ansible Core update
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7. Meetups
● London: Mar 19 (Tues)
https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-London/events/258726000/
● Dresden: Mar 21 (Thurs)
https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-Dresden/events/259121696/
● Helsinki: Apr 3 (Wed)
https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-Helsinki/events/258671878/
● Benelux, Paris, Copenhagen, ...
● Next Munich meetup? :)
○ https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-Munchen/
Events
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8. Conferences
● Chemnitz Linux Days https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en
○ March 16-17 (Sat-Sun) in Chemnitz
○ Ansible community booth
○ Several talks/workshops on using Ansible
● #AnsibleFest Atlanta https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest
○ September 24-26 (Tues-Thurs) in Atlanta, GA, USA
○ Call for Presentations will open in April
○ Tickets will go on sale in May after Red Hat Summit
○ Sponsorship prospectus will be ready in March
Events
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9. Thanks
Want to know more?
Freenode IRC: #ansible-community
GitHub: https://github.com/ansible/community
More channels: https://www.ansible.com/community