Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Puppet Labs’ First Featured Community Member: Lee Lowder

Puppet Labs’ First Featured Community Member: Lee Lowder:
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Congratulations to Lee Lowder, our first Puppet Labs Featured Community Member!
As part of our ongoing efforts to highlight how fortunate Puppet Labs is to have such a vibrant community, we’re getting ready to launch a nomination-based recognition program for ‘Featured Community Members’. The first few will be selected by Puppet Labs employees until we have the nomination system and criteria polished and ready. We welcome suggestions in the comments below for how you’d like to see this program work.
When we started planning this program in March, Dawn Foster, the Community Lead at Puppet Labs, had Lee Lowder tagged as her choice as the first Featured Community Member for all of his help answering questions on IRC as well as performing moderator functions on ask.puppetlabs.com. Coincidentally, Eric Sorenson, Puppet Open Source Product Owner, had also sent an email around Puppet Labs requesting that “someone get [Lee Lowder] a t-shirt”, asserting Lee is “completely awesome”, all without knowing about Dawn’s recommendation. Eric went on to explain that sending a Puppet Labs t-shirt had alleged restorative properties. A while back, Lee was in a car crash, and said this on IRC:


[2013/02/01 18:32:02] <FriedBob> I noticed something today. Last week, when I was wearing my normal work clothes, I went to the hospital and there were some complications (albeit minor ones). Today I went back for a follow up procedure, and I wore my Puppet Labs “DevOps dependency” shirt from PuppetConf. Not only did it go smooth, it went better than expected. I’m quite confident the difference was the shirt. :)
As if trying to speed Lee’s bequeathal of Puppet Labs swag, other employees started firing off emails, confirming that yes, acknowledging Lee’s work was a top Puppet Labs priority:
“He helps me out with ‘ask.puppetlabs.com’ moderation by flagging spam content, and he’s super helpful with people on IRC, always ready to chime in. An awesome community member IMHO” replied Ken Barber from Engineering.  Ryan Coleman, Puppet Forge Product Owner, added, “He was at my pre-PuppetConf Fundamentals training and he’s awesome. He was really helpful.”
Eric also added, “Lee’s taken charge on the ask.puppetlabs.com site! He burned up the charts getting up to 600 points in the past couple of weeks, nearly double the number two spot.  He’s always ready to help out with esoteric problems on #puppet IRC and even has taken a turn helping out on the projects.puppetlabs.com bug tracker. Completely awesome!”
What more do we need say? This accountant-turned-admin has more karma than anyone else on ask.puppetlabs.com.  Eric better ride his bike faster if he’s going to catch up:
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You can follow Lee at his blog under his recognizable handle FriedBob, or stay up to date with him on Twitter as @FriedBob.  Thanks, Lee, for all your contributions!

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