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title: 'REMINDER: Reductive Labs Luke Kanies talks open source and venture capital tonight at Portland Web Innovators'
date: '2009-09-02T11:34:08-07:00'
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# REMINDER: Reductive Labs Luke Kanies talks open source and venture capital tonight at Portland Web Innovators

You may remember news earlier this year about [Reductive Labs](http://reductivelabs.com/ "Reductive Labs"), a company started by a couple of former [Reed](http://web.reed.edu/ "Reed College") students who—upon garnering $2 million in venture capital—announced that they were [moving their company to Portland](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/06/23/puppet-master-reductive-labs-2-million-series-a-moving-portland/ "Puppet master Reductive Labs garners $2 million Series A and they’re moving to Portland"). Or you may know them as the folks behind [Puppet](http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet "Puppet"), an open source language for configuration management.

Either way, they’ve got an interesting story to tell. Several stories actually. And they’ll be telling them tonight at [Portland Web Innovators](http://pdxwi.com "Portland Web Innovators").

What does Reductive Labs do?

> Better IT systems require better tools and better processes. Reductive Labs enables IT organizations to provide more consistency, more flexibility, more predictability and more transparency while lowering the cost of service with an open source framework.

Join the PDXWI crew and [Luke Kanies](http://twitter.com/puppetmasterd "Luke Kanies") tonight at the [Portland Incubator Experiment](http://calagator.org/venues/202391676 "Portland Incubator Experiment") to hear more about Reductive Labs, their open source experiences, garnering funding, and why they chose to move to Portland.

For more information or to RSVP, see [Open Source to Venture Capital on Upcoming](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4223295/).