From the 6 to 11 July 2010, the 11th RMLL are hosted in Bordeaux, a great meeting for anyone interested with Free Software and their uses.
Among the numerous very interesting presentations and round tables, I gave a presentation about the advantages of configuration management, and how Cfengine 3 works to help you deal with all the potential issues that might arise in the industrialization of your configurations. This presentation can be a good introduction on what Cfengine can do, and how it does it.
PS: Stay tuned for the Ldap Synchronization Connector presentation by Jonathan Clarke