# Mobilize your forces! Ansible user group & blogosphere telethon 2012! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 12, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972 "2012-10-12T12:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/1 "2012-10-12T12:42:39Z")
Hey guys, In the last few months we've really grown by a huge amount, largely by word of mouth between users. That's great and it has been amazing to watch. We have greater contribution rates than some of the other apps that more people use. Still, if I may ask... let's keep this growing. Let's rescue those people who don't know about us. If you could do a few of the following, everyone, this would hugely help me out: \* write a post on your personal or company tech blog about how you are using things \* consider a talk at a local user group or mini-conference like a BarCamp \* post to twitter or facebook and so on -- these are short lived, so posting a blog link is even better -- not just links, but about how you are using things. #ansible Free software is super cheap, and I put an enormous amount of hours in this (and so do many others, to which I am deeply indebted), so helping us out a bit with spreading the word to those that haven't discovered it yet would be greatly appreciated, and definitely helps find new contributors -- developers, testers, authors, new ideas, etc.   I personally feed on those kinds of interactions and this is really why I do it. So apologies for sounding a bit like a PBS telethon, but we need more viewers like you πŸ™‚ You are all very very very much appreciated. Thanks! --Michael ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Wieers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Dag\_Wieers](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dag_Wieers)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/2 "2012-10-12T13:26:20Z")
And let's do this next week after v0.8 is out of the door ? πŸ™‚ I will be doing a presentation about Ansible at T-DOSE 2012:      [http://www.t-dose.org/2012/talks/small-introduction-ansible](http://www.t-dose.org/2012/talks/small-introduction-ansible) Where I will be discussing how I designed my Ansible setup for provisioning and systems management, as well as demonstrate the provisioning mechanism. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/3 "2012-10-12T13:55:42Z")
> And let's do this ... Talk about it now and then both. Many of our users consume the development branch directly, so it makes almost no difference. ---
**Author:** ![jpmens1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jpmens1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens1)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/4 "2012-10-12T13:58:39Z")
> And let's do this next week after v0.8 is out of the door ? πŸ™‚ Yesss! I've been given 45 minutes in which to do a presentation on Ansible at the NLUUG conference in November:         [https://www.nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj12/abstract/ab22.html](https://www.nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj12/abstract/ab22.html) Regards,         -JP ---
**Author:** ![Stephen\_Fromm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Stephen\_Fromm](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Fromm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/5 "2012-10-12T17:25:13Z")
Dag and Jan-Piet, do you plan to plan to publish your slide deck after your presentations? If so, that’d be great. πŸ™‚ sf ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/6 "2012-10-12T17:47:28Z")
I'm also going to be posting a deck from PyCarolinas in a few weeks. There is also this rather old one that is more about answering the "why this thing?" than anything else, and isn't very technical. [https://speakerdeck.com/u/mpdehaan/p/ansible](https://speakerdeck.com/u/mpdehaan/p/ansible) BTW, speakerdeck is great because you can just upload PDFs to it, which means you can build your slides with anything. Recommended. --Michael ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Wieers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Dag\_Wieers](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dag_Wieers)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/7 "2012-10-12T18:44:38Z")
I hope your release your deck first πŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Wieers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Dag\_Wieers](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dag_Wieers)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/8 "2012-10-12T18:45:14Z")
I meant Michael. ---
**Author:** ![jpmens1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jpmens1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens1)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mobilize-your-forces-ansible-user-group-blogosphere-telethon-2012/11972/9 "2012-10-12T18:45:33Z")
> do you plan to plan to publish your slide deck after your > presentations? If so, that'd be great. πŸ™‚ Shall do, and I'll post back here.         -JP