Community is an art form | Linux Today

Community is an art form

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 11, 2013

This is a view shared by an increasing number of respected speakers in the industry as open platforms now become seriously architected into our computing services from mobile devices to enterprise clouds.

Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies used his keynote on the last day of the recent ApacheCon conference to talk about ‘Growing Authentic Communities’ and reinforce this message.

Kanies runs Puppet Labs, a company focused on open source configuration management and IT automation software for system administrators.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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