1. Building Awareness (and Knowledge) of Quattor
David O’Callaghan
10th Quattor Workshop 12th October 2010, RAL, UK

2. I’ll avoid the “D” word!
Dissemination!

3. Why promote Quattor? We want more users We want more contributors
We want to improve quattor
We want to make life easier

4. What should we do? Make quattor: easier to discover
easier to join (the community)

5. What are the problems? User-facing website Search engine results
Functionality / Complexity
in my opinion!

6. Functionality / Complexity
Not so much an awareness / knowledge issue
Quattor’s narrow OS support counts against it
Pan language is powerful
Complexity of creating a new configuration component and bringing it to the community

7. User-facing Website Content is good, but several problems
Server certificate
User certificate check
Internal structure & search

11. Internal Structure & Search
Internal structure is mostly logical, but
Too much of hierarchy is visible from front page
Search results mix TRAC documentation with Quattor info

12. Search Engine Results quattor.org does not appear in Google results
3rd and 4th result for “quattor” are for our quattor but not the main site:

13. Aims for User Website Resolve security issues
Create user landing page at quattor.org
Explain security issue
Better internal search results
Maybe remove internal TRAC pages?
Better external search engine results
User landing page
Links on user sites: “powered by quattor”

14. Landing Page

15. Worth looking at how other projects do things
The Competition
Worth looking at how other projects do things
Puppet
Chef
Yaim (vs. QWG)

16. I know little about these. Please fill in the gaps!
The Competition
I know little about these. Please fill in the gaps!
Strengths (Puppet, Chef)
Widespread commerical use (e.g. Google, Twitter) = trust
Large user communities = support
Friendly, informative, searchable websites
Community: Puppet Forge, Chef Cookbook
Weaknesses
Relatively new/incomplete (e.g. Virtualization and Monitoring support only added recently...)

17. Plan Improve website For users
For search engines (so users can find it!)
Functionality/Complexity
Separate issue, but promising developments
Support interop. with Yaim (and Puppet, etc.?)

18. Discuss!