James Turnbull presented a tutorial on Puppet at linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand.
John Arundel (Bitfield on IRC) spoke on Agile Sysadmin and the Art of Infrastructure Automation at the London Ruby Users Group in November, 2009.
Julian Simpson (The Build Doctor) also spoke at the London Ruby Users Group in November, 2009.
R.I. Pienaar (Volcane on IRC) presented to the Cape Town Linux Users Group in July, 2009.
James Turnbull presented on Puppet at linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Australia.
Luke Kanies and James Turnbull presented on Puppet at OSCON 2008 in Portland.
Luke has presented on Puppet at both linux.conf.au 2007 and 2008 in Australia. The most recent presentation was in Melbourne, Australia at linux.conf.au 2008. His presentation at linux.conf.au 2007 in Sydney, Australia is also available.
Luke also gave two talks at BayLISA about Puppet. The first is a twenty minute introduction from 2005 (Puppet’s first year) about the Why and What of puppet. The second and third are part one and two of a two hour presentation half a year later, again at BayLISA.
Martha Greenberg wrote a set of slides on Puppet Basic Concepts to explain Puppet to her co-workers. Feel free to use them to explain it to yours.
Frank Sweetser gave a introductory presentation on Puppet to the Worcester Linux Users Group. You can download the slides in either PDF Format or ODP Format.
Mike Renfro gave an introduction to both infrastructure management and Puppet to the Tennessee Higher Education IT Symposium. You can download either Mike’s slides or Mike’s handouts in PDF format.
Lindsay Holmwood talked about an Australia-wide Puppet deployment he did at the Sysadmin Miniconf at linux.conf.au 2008. You can download Lindsay’s slides and watch a video of the talk.
Garrett Honeycutt spoke to SASAG about his experiences with Puppet at Speakeasy on 2009-05-14. Slides here
Jeff McCune started things off and Nigel Kersten has joined in on sessions regarding the benefits of Puppet for Mac OS X Management at Macworld for the past several years. 2008’s slides are hosted at Google Code, and Mr. McCune hosts the video from that year at North Star Labs. 2009’s session was titled IT841 Mac OS X Laptop Deployments with Puppet.
Ohad Levy spoke at OSSPAC 08 about his Puppet setup at Infineon. Slides here
Mark Foster presented Tame your Infrastructure with Puppet at LinuxFest Northwest in April 2009.