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Hello there 🙋 It's time for the logo final selection! We’ve collected a few ideas from a few designers and our amazing community and now it's time for YOU to pick!
github.com/OpenVoxProje...
Note: the colors might not be final yet, we have a little flexibility there.

Logo Decision for OpenVox · Issue #71 · OpenVoxProject/planning Overview We want to select an official logo for OpenVox. We asked two designers to create some logos. The following survived a first round of review and are now ready for your input. Colors might b...

Hey everyone 👋 We're doing a final round of #OpenVox logo selection! If you’d like to join in, you can still submit your proposals for the poll until 2025-10-31. github.com/OpenVoxProje...

After that, we’ll open a new poll and (finally!) pick a logo 😄

Cheers, @rwaffen on behalf of the PMC

The new gem server in town If you’re in the Ruby world you may have been following the RubyGems shenanigans of the last few weeks. They suffered a poorly communicated corporate led rug-pull, not all that dissimilar to the…

Exciting news! The community driven rubygems.org replacement has been announced. We believe in the value of supporting one another and so we're financially sponsoring each of the development team. See more at buff.ly/2tnH8zn

Lance onstage accepting his award at Fossy

Congrats Lance Albertson for the inaugural Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom. There's nobody who deserves it more for all your work with OSU OSL. #fossy #foss25

OpenVox - das neue Puppet Open Source | Heinlein Support GmbH Ende 2024 hat Puppet by Perforce Puppet angekündigt, dass man Puppet Open Source nicht mehr weiterentwickeln wird. Stattdessen stellt man ein Produkt namens "Puppet Core" zur Verfügung, welches nicht…

Das teilweise irrationale Vorgehen von Perforce hat die Community zwar überrascht, aber auch für ein neues Momentum gesorgt. Lies mehr über diese spannenden Zeiten:
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Have you ever wondered where the people you engage with are located? Check out our brand new #voxpupuli community map, and add yourself if you'd like! voxpupuli.org/map/

VoxConf '25 Vox Pupuli is a collective of Puppet module, tooling and documentation maintainers working together for the greater good.

Check it out, #VoxConf talks are posted! All talk times are in CEST, but don't forget that there's a virtual option so you can watch from anywhere. buff.ly/Pm0jMg7

Foreman Birthday Event / VoxConf 2025 Do, 17. Juli 2025

Don't forget, the first #VoxConf will be held in Nuremberg, Germany on July 17th, along with the #Foreman birthday party. And if you can't make it in person, there's also a livestream option!

Talk proposals will be accepted until June 20th, which is just a couple days away...
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So much for being developer first Well, it appears that Perforce has taken another step down the enshittification journey. For some strange reason, it appears that they don’t want you writing Puppet modules unless you’re a paying…

So much for being developer first. #Perforce has sequestered away the #PDK, just like they did to #Puppet. It's an odd strategic move to make it harder for the best module authors in the #community to build content for your platform...

VoxConf '25 Vox Pupuli is a collective of Puppet module, tooling and documentation maintainers working together for the greater good.

Things are moving fast for #OpenVox and building #community is top priority. Mark your calendars for mid July in Nürnberg, Germany for the very first VoxConf. It’s going to tag team along with the Foreman’s birthday party, so you’ll be able to attend both events at once!
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OpenVox InfraTales - MacOS Signing and Notarization Hi everyone! Nick here. I figured it was time I finally write a blog post. If you’ve seen me around on the Vox Pupuli Slack, you know that I’ve been deep in the trenches of OpenVox build code for…

No un-notarized binaries ever! Today’s story is about wrestling with #MacOS’s #Gatekeeper so we can release a production-ready MacOS #OpenVox agent build.

Forging Our Future: OSL's Path to Sustainability – A Call for Smart Solutions and Enduring Support | OSU Open Source Lab A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

Thanks to your support, the #OSL has some breathing room again! They could still use help with long term sustainability, so please keep working on those corporate sponsorships! #opensource #oss #funding #community buff.ly/8za8H9B

Have you been waiting for #OpenVox packages for #Windows? Well you're in luck because the OpenVox agent release 8.14.0 includes release candidates for both #Windows and #MacOS! Try them out and let us know how they work for you.

A whirlwind conversation on trademarks Quite a few people over the last few months have helpfully pointed out the name collisions in the OpenVox Puppet fork. If you didn’t recognize it, there’s also a VoIP/PBX provider called OpenVox.…

Quite a few people have raised concerns about #trademarks because of the #OpenVox name and the use of the #puppet command names and paths. We thought we'd explain why we don't have an #infringement concern, and our roadmap to changing paths in safe and non-disruptive ways.

If you've been waiting for the ability to rsync #openvox packages from #VoxPupuli, then I'm excited to announce that your wait is over! Thanks @genebean.bsky.social! buff.ly/oKfN6Ii

Paying their fair share The other day someone shared a Puppet Community Slack post in which a very senior Perforce sales engineer stated plainly that the reason for their sequestered source shenanigans is that they’re…

An #opensource #community is more than a bunch of people who happen to own wallets or purses. They're probably the foundation that your company built itself on.

It's all about the ecosystem, bby-Ben Ford https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/R7CKYH/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBZBIkixHEiddF07cN9J4Egu9VmBUEwYu

"If all you could do with $product was what it came with, then nobody would ever buy it!" Learn about the importance of a content ecosystem and why the community that maintains it is irreplaceable. @binford2k.bsky.social #CfgMgmtCamp #community

OSS is not the same as source available-Nick Burgan https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/talk/UWREUC/Playlist Main track: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBZBIkixHEiddF07cN9J4Egu9VmBUEwYuTalks from oth...

"source available" is -not- the same as open source -- and your community deserves better from you. Strong words and some advice from Nick Burgan at #CfgMgmtCamp 2025. #opensource #oss

CfgMgmtCamp wrapup Well, we’re back from Belgium after another successful week of conferences. First we attended FOSDEM in Brussels, then we hustled down to Ghent for the CfgMgmtCamp speaker’s dinner. This year is…

People are coming to grips with the idea that very few businesses include “provide something of value” as an actual business goal.... #cfgmgmtcamp #openvox #oss #opensource

FOSDEM 2025 - Forked Communities: Project Re-licensing and Community Impact Many popular free and open source projects are owned and driven by corporations, and in today's difficult economic climate, those companies are under increasing pressure to protect their businesses…

Did you miss the panel talk on Forked Communities: Project Re-licensing and Community Impact at #FOSDEM? Our own @binford2k.bsky.social joined @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, @brian.proffitt.org, and Stephen Walli to chat about what happens when companies take project private.

CfgMgmtCamp We are having a networking lunch event on the first day of CfgMgmtCamp, and we’d like to invite all attendees who identify as women to join each other for this free lunch event!

We're off to #Belgium for #Fosdem https://buff.ly/4fKoRCO and #cfgmgmtcamp https://buff.ly/3PP9P3a, my favorite week of the year!

Services We unconditionally believe that the value of an infrastructure management tool is in its ecosystem of content contributors. We believe in collaboration over competition. And we believe in the power…

It’s time to start planning our migrations from #Puppet to #OpenVox. If you have more complex requirements or would just rather take on this bit of system surgery with an experienced professional at your side, we’re here to help. Check out our services for more info!

First release, hot off the presses! It’s been quite a journey, y’all. But we’re excited to announce the first release of OpenVox, the community-maintained open source implementation of Puppet. OpenVox 8.11 is functionally equivalent to…

We’re excited to announce the first release of #OpenVox, the community-maintained #OpenSource implementation of #Puppet. This is functionally equivalent and should be a drop-in replacement. Be aware, of course, that it's not yet tested to the same standard as Puppet is.

We think that a well done fork actually leads to a better, stronger community and ecosystem. Being able to collaborate over shared interests as well as work out differences is how we build a product that takes all these needs into account. #puppet overlookinfratech.com/2025/01/08/t...

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Letting go of control Events of the last week have me thinking about something that’s true in a lot of contexts. A lot of people like to have control of a relationship; control of a situation; control of the message; or…

⚠️ A Product company never has control over their #OpenSource user #community. They only have an illusion of it and by the time they realize this, it’s generally too late to recover.

Contributions of ‘Ghost Engineers’ Last week was Thanksgiving for the USA and while I don’t personally celebrate the holiday or the violent colonization it represents, it does encourage me to reflect back on some of the things I’m…

It's time that #GhostEngineers got the recognition they deserve. In most companies, they're actually the backbone of truly high performing teams.