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+# Please Read and Delete
 
-# Network vs Network Automation
+Failure to read and delete may result in PR not being approved.
+
+## Network vs Network Automation
 
 The intention is to keep this Network Automation related, and not Network related. The line is blurry, and subject to change if the community so desires. If you wish to add a link that may be a bit Network leaning, but you feel it offers enough content, or has been previously denied, please open an Issue. If said Issue receives enough upvotes/attention, then it shall be included.
 
-# Vendor Submissions
+## Vendor Submissions
 
 Vendor product submissions are allowed, as long as they are logical and fulfill a Network Automation need.
+
+
+## Explanation
+
+If not clear what the PR is for, please explain in further detail
+

README.md

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 - [Ansbile Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project) - Welcome to Ansible's mailing list / forum!
 - [IRC Ansible](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/community.html#irc-channel) - Ansible IRC Channels
 - [NTC Slack](http://slack.networktocode.com) - Slack community around Network Automation
+- [Salt Users](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-users) - The official forum of the Salt community.
+- [Salt Networks](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-networks) - The goal of this group is to have a central place to communicate goals about network device automation with SaltStack.
+- [Salt Formulas](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/salt-formulas) - The SaltStack formulas working group.
 
 # Events / Meetup
 
 - [AWS Reinvent](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) - AWS re:Invent Central is designed to facilitate connections between sponsors and attendees.
 - [Ansible Fest](https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest) - AnsibleFest is a day-long conference bringing together Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best practices, case studies and Ansible news.
 - [Tech Field Day](http://techfieldday.com/) - Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format.
+- [London Network Automation Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/London-Network-Automation-Meetup/) - A community of network engineers, who have interest in the new buzz of network automation.
+- [SaltConf](http://saltconf.com/) - A 4 days event including two days of SaltStack customer case studies and SaltStack technical deep dives.
 
 # Training
 
 - [IP Space](http://www.ipspace.net/Training) - On ipSpace.net you'll find numerous courses, webinars, and videos covering SDN, cloud computing, virtualization technologies, IPv6 and VPNs.
 - [NTC](http://networktocode.com/products/training/) - Network Automation Training including Python, Ansible, DevOps, and much more.
 - [Python for Network Engineers](https://pynet.twb-tech.com/class.html) - You will learn skills that make you better at network automation and that improve your capability to use programming to scale your work.
+- [Mircea Ulinic](http://mirceaulinic.us14.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=4d3e65e9c470a62dc341ce797&id=bd27d97b29) - Learn more about cross-vendor event-driven network automation and orchestration.
 
 # Blogs
 
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 - [Coding Packets](https://codingpackets.com) - The Network Automation thoughts of Brad Searle
 - [Jason Edelman](http://www.jedelman.com/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Jason Edelman
 - [IPEngineer - David Gee](http://ipengineer.net) - Network automation, software-networking and musings from David Gee
-- [mirceaulinic](https://mirceaulinic.net/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Mircea Ulinic
+- [Mircea Ulinic](https://mirceaulinic.net/) - Random thoughts of Mircea Ulinic. May include event-driven network automation, vendor bashing or machine learning (TBD).
 - [Napalm-automation](https://napalm-automation.net) - News and updates about the NAPALM project
 - [Networklore](https://networklore.com/blog) - The Network Automation thoughts of Patrick Ogenstad
 - [Networker and Coder](https://networkerandcoder.wordpress.com/) - The Network Automation thoughts of Csilla Bessenyei
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 ## Structured Data
 
-### Yaml
+### YAML
 
  - Getting Started and Basics
+ - [Online Validator](http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/)
  - Examples
  - Advanced and Tools
 
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  - Examples
  - Advanced and Tools
 
-### Yang
+### YANG
 
 
  - Getting Started and Basics
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 ## Salt
 
- - Getting Started and Basics
+ - [Salt in 10 minutes](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/walkthrough.html)
- - Examples
+ - [SaltStack fundamentals](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/fundamentals/)
- - Advanced and Tools
+ - [SaltStack configuration management](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/config/)
+ - [SaltStack Network Automation](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/network_automation/index.html)
+ - [The napalm-salt repository](https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm-salt)
+ - [Event-driven network automation using Salt: up and running in 60 minutes](https://ripe74.ripe.net/presentations/18-RIPE-74-Network-automation-at-scale-up-and-running-in-60-minutes.pdf)
+ - [Salt 2016.11 (Carbon) release notes](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2016.11.0.html#network-automation-napalm)
+ - [Salt 2017.7 (Nitrogen) release notes](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/topics/releases/2017.7.0.html#network-automation)
+ - [Using Salt at scale](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/intro_scale.html)
+ - [Salt high availability and fault tolerance](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/highavailability/index.html)
 
 ## Puppet
 
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  - [Netscaler-Ansible](https://github.com/networktocode/netscaler-ansible) - Ansible Module to work with Netscalers
  - [NTC Ansible](https://github.com/networktocode/ntc-ansible) - Multi-vendor Ansible Modules for Network Automation
 
+## Pre-written Salt States (Formulas)
+
+ - [napalm-install-formula](https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/napalm-install-formula) - Salt formula to simplify the installation of the necessary packages and system dependencies for NAPALM.
+ - [napalm-ntp-formula](https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/napalm-ntp-formula) - Formula to manage the NTP configuration on network devices, following the OpenConfig system YANG model.
+
 ## Vendor Abstraction Library
 
  - [clicrud](https://github.com/davidjohngee/clicrud) - Brocade specific (MLX/VDX/ICX/CER/CES) CLI driver (Telnet & SSH)
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 ## Tools
 
 - [BGP-Dashboard](https://github.com/rhicks/bgp-dashboard) - BGP Dashboard and Monitoring Web Application
+- [napalm-logs](https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm-logs) - Cross-vendor normalisation for network syslog messages, following the OpenConfig and IETF YANG models.
 - [Net-Config](https://github.com/SLAC/net-config/) - Automation framework for network devices
 - [NetSpark-Scripts](https://github.com/admiralspark/NetSpark-Scripts) - Netmiko-based scripts to assist the Network Administrators and Engineers of the world!
 - [NetTools](https://github.com/crisponions/NetTools) - Simple network python scripts
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  - Docker
  - Vagrant
  - Kubernetes
+ - Marathon
  - VirtualBox
  - ESX
 
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 - [infoblox](https://www.infoblox.com/) - Industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, the category known as DDI
 - [netbox](https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox) - NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
 - [nipap](http://spritelink.github.io/NIPAP/) - nipap is a sleek, intuitive and powerful IP address management system built to handle large amounts of IP addresses.
+- [NSoT](https://github.com/dropbox/nsot) - Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database.
 - [phpipam](https://phpipam.net/) - phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management.
 
 # Configuration Management
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 # Podcasts
 
 - [Software Gone Wild](https://www.ipspace.net/Podcast/Software_Gone_Wild) - Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks.
+- [Packet Pushers](http://packetpushers.net/podcast/) - A network of technology podcasts where real engineers get into the weeds about networking, data centers, and enterprise IT.
 
 # Contributing