The Setup: Managing an Army of Laptops with Puppet

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+# The Setup: Managing an Army of Laptops with Puppet
+
+As a rapidly growing company, GitHub's faced some challenges in how
+to make sure that everyone can get up and running on projects or continue to
+work on one of the dozens of existing projects if they've never set it up before.
+What a nightmare!
+That's what prompted @jbarnette and @wfarr to develop The Setup.
+The Setup aims to solve all the problems that used to plague on-boarding
+GitHubbers onto projects with a lot of automation and a case of the
+"It Just Works".
+This presentation talks about the history of The Setup, how it works,
+and some of the lessons learned along the way.
+
+## Will Farrington
+
+Will is a developer and operations engineer.
+Will works on system operations at GitHub as part of the Operations team,
+where he spends most of his time slinging Puppet to manage GitHub's extensive
+production environment.
+Prior to GitHub, he worked on a number of large Ruby applications and
+deployments at Highgroove Studios and Rails Machine.
+He is passionate about web operations and configuration management.
+
+![Profile picture](https://raw.github.com/wfarr/rubyconfau-2013-cfp/master/will_farrington-the_setup/profile_picture.png)
+
+- [My website](http://willfarrington.com/)
+- [My twitter](https://twitter.com/wfarr)
+- [Past talk slides](https://speakerdeck.com/u/wfarr)
+
+## Notes
+
+This talk has been/is being given at:
+
+* Highgroove Studios Tech Talk 8/31
+* Atlanta Ruby Users Group 9/12
+* The Ruby Hoedown 2012
+* PuppetConf 2012