What happened to open source

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Gareth Greenaway from the Salt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade.

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Featuring:

• Gareth Greenaway – GitHub, Mastodon
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Gareth Greenaway
• SCaLE
• Salt project

Outro

• The serverless illusion

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

บท

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:52)

https://sentry.io/

3. The opener (00:04:47)

4. Early SCaLE backgrounds (00:07:56)

5. Salt (00:09:31)

6. Why join Salt? (00:10:18)

7. What is Salt? (00:13:15)

8. Python development (00:16:58)

9. Why join open source? (00:18:30)

10. Future of open source (00:21:39)

11. Balancing open governance (00:29:42)

12. Getting into tech (00:35:49)

13. Would you do it again? (00:37:42)

14. Open source is about community (00:39:17)

15. I'm working for free (00:41:31)

16. Gareth's socials (00:46:44)

17. Thanks for joining us! (00:49:26)

18. Sponsor: Retool (00:49:49)

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19. The closer (00:54:26)

20. Outro (01:11:04)