About
The Seattle and Tacoma chapter.
DiagDebug Puget Sound serves Fortinet engineers across the Seattle and Tacoma metro. It is the flagship chapter of the DiagDebug network and the proof of the model the network runs on.
How the chapter is run
Josh Sauer chairs the chapter. A working practitioner and not a vendor employee, the chair sets the agenda with the steering committee, lines up speakers from the community, and keeps a regular cadence around the metro. The point is a room that answers to its members.
Founders
Josh Sauer is a Practitioner Founding Member (Mission Guardian) and the chapter chair. He proposed DiagDebug Puget Sound and leads it.
Tanner Harrison is an Honorary Vendor Founder and the chapter's Fortinet liaison. As vendor personnel, he holds no voting rights, no veto, and no administrative control over community assets, per the charter.
Steering committee
A small group of practitioners owns the agenda, picks topics and speakers, and holds the chapter to the trust rules. A Fortinet-side liaison helps with logistics such as venue and food, but has no vote and no veto over content or leadership.
The three trust rules
Shared verbatim across every chapter in the DiagDebug network. They are the conditions of taking part, not aspirations.
What this chapter commits to
- Chatham House Rule at every meeting.
- No attendee data to Fortinet CRM, ever.
- A practitioner chairs every meeting.
Our place in the network
Puget Sound is one chapter of the wider DiagDebug network. The network sets the shared trust rules and the recognition bar; the chapter runs its own events and community. You can find other chapters, or start one in your own metro, on the DiagDebug network site.