Vox Pupuli - Community Update

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# Vox Pupuli Community Update
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## 2025 Edition

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## $ whoami
<img src="bastelfreak2.jpg" alt="drawing" style="float: right;width: 400px;"/>

* Tim 'bastelfreak' Meusel

* Puppet Contributor since 2012

* Merging stuff on [Vox Pupuli](https://voxpupuli.org/) (Puppet Community) since 2015

* Vox Pupuli Project Management Committee member

* Senior IT Automation Consultant at [betadots](https://betadots.de/)

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* Who knows this picture?

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## Vox Pupuli
### What?
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* Maintain <s>178</s>->188 Puppet modules

* And Rubygems!

* Be helpful and polite to each other

* Be open-minded to people and technology

* Provide a home for orphaned Puppet modules

* Unite lonely module and tooling authors to a collective

* Ensure continued development for our code

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<a href='https://betadots.de' alt='company website betadots'><img src="logo-1181x1181.png" alt="drawing" style="position: fixed; bottom: 12px; left: 20px; width: 100px;"/></a>
.footnote[[@bastelsblog](https://twitter.com/bastelsblog) for [@voxpupuliorg](https://twitter.com/voxpupuliorg)]

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* last year we had 178 modules, now 188
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## Vox Pupuli
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* All major [puppet-lint plugins](https://rubygems.org/gems/voxpupuli-puppet-lint-plugins) (shipped by PDK)

* [FacterDB](https://github.com/voxpupuli/facterdb) (shipped by PDK)

* [metadata-json-lint](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint) (shipped by PDK)

* [json-schema](https://github.com/voxpupuli/json-schema) (shipped by PDK)

* [rspec-puppet-facts](https://github.com/voxpupuli/rspec-puppet-facts) (shipped by PDK)

* [puppet-blacksmith](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-blacksmith) (shipped by PDK)

* [puppet-syntax](https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-syntax) (shipped by puppet-dev-tools container)

* [ra10ke](https://github.com/voxpupuli/ra10ke) (shipped by puppet-dev-tools container)

* [onceover](https://github.com/voxpupuli/onceover) (shipped by puppet-dev-tools container)

* [Beaker](https://github.com/voxpupuli/beaker) (Perforce uses it internally)

* [hiera-eyaml](https://github.com/voxpupuli/hiera-eyaml/) (shipped by PE and puppet-dev-tools container)
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* we own the majority of tools for testing in the puppet ecosystem
* perforce sells some of it to their customers

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## Vox Pupuli
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* Amount of Vox Pupuli members with merge permissions

* 211 people last year at cfgmgmtcamp, 218 right now!

![img](contributors.svg)
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* 161 members in the GitHub org with merge access in 2022, 186 last year, 211 right now.

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## Vox Pupuli
### What?
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* For a few years, we explored options to receive fundings

* become a legal entity, or join an existing group
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## Vox Pupuli
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* For a few years, we explored options to receive fundings

* become a legal entity, or join an existing group

Existing groups:

* [Linux Foundation](https://linuxfoundation.eu/en/projects)

* [Software in the Public Interest](https://www.spi-inc.org/) (SPI)

* [Open Source Collective](https://oscollective.org/) (OSC)
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* there wasn't a big need to join. Who would fund us? For what would be spend a few dollars?

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## Vox Pupuli
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* November 2021: Perforce announced to sponsor us!

https://dev.to/puppet/help-us-understand-how-you-use-open-source-puppet-51aj

<blockquote>> For each survey response, Puppet will donate $1 to Vox Pupuli via Software in the Public Interest (SPI). Plus you can opt in to a raffle to win a new Apple Watch Series 7.</blockquote>
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## Vox Pupuli
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* Now we had a motivation enable us for funds

* We tried to join SPI, but that requires actual paper work

* During config management camp 2023, we joined [Open Source collective](https://voxpupuli.org/blog/2023/07/20/voxpupuli-sponsoring/)!

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## Vox Pupuli
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### 3 year recap
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* received $11,649.78 USD (after fees)

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* Received a single $8,000 USD donation from Microsoft (WTF?! ♥)

.evensmaller[![img](2025-01-27_20-02.png)]
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![img](PXL_20240424_063656187.jpg)

* Over the years we purchased 85 finger puppet for ~ 1400€
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* expensive gifts, but we love to hand them out
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## Vox Pupuli
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Services we pay for:

* [inwx.de](https://www.inwx.de/en/) for domains

* [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/) for DNS services

* [tuta.com](https://tuta.com/) shared email accounts
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## Vox Pupuli
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* [voxpupuli.org/sponsoring](https://voxpupuli.org/sponsoring/) list of all sponsors that provide us services

* GitHub sponsors us 80 concurrent standard runners

* Those companies enable us to work more efficient and provide services to our users

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* [voxpupuli.org/sponsoring](https://voxpupuli.org/sponsoring/) list of all sponsors that provide us services

* GitHub sponsors us 80 concurrent standard runners

* Those companies enable us to work more efficient and provide services to our users

* [puppetmodule.info](https://www.puppetmodule.info/modules) - central place for automatic module documentation

* Operated by Vox Pupuli with help from our sponsors
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* We could improve DevX with bigger and/or more CI runners

* We considered paying for bigger GitHub runners

* We experimented with self-hosted runners

* GitHub doesn't provide proper CI stats, so you cannot estimate the costs

* I wasted 100€ for large GitHub runners, for just one repo, in one day
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## Vox Pupuli
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* For config management Camp 2025 we reimbursed 4267$ of flight/hotel costs

* We want to sponsor more people in the future to attend conferences

* We have 5,317$ on our bank account and 300-400$ monthly income
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* So far Puppet/Perforce didn't provide the promised sponsoring
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## Vox Pupuli
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### Contribute?!
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* Please support us with donations!

* [github.com/sponsors/voxpupuli](https://github.com/sponsors/voxpupuli)

* [opencollective.com/vox-pupuli](https://opencollective.com/vox-pupuli)

* Please contribute to the ecosystem!
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## Vox Pupuli
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* Please support us with donations!

* [github.com/sponsors/voxpupuli](https://github.com/sponsors/voxpupuli)

* [opencollective.com/vox-pupuli](https://opencollective.com/vox-pupuli)

* Please contribute to the ecosystem!

* Check open PRs/Issues at [github.com/voxpupuli](https://github.com/voxpupuli)

* Come to `#voxpupuli` on Libera.Chat IRC

* Or `#voxpupuli` on [voxpupuli.slack.com](https://short.voxpupu.li/puppetcommunity_slack_signup)

* Come to the Puppet rooms B.2.011 / B.2.015

### Thanks for your attention!

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