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Nathen Harvey
As the VP of Community Development at Chef, Nathen helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef framework. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Web-scale IT. Prior to joining Chef, Nathen spent a number of years managing operations and infrastructure for a number of web applications. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps.
Chef Client 12.14.60 – Escaped defects and corrective actions
Despite our normal testing and processes, the 12.14.60 release of Chef Client included a number of regressions and escaped defects (you may also call them “bugs”). One of the defects was the yum_repository resource which was added and released in chef-client version 12.14.60.
Read moreChef Board of Governance Meeting
The Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) held its second meeting of 2016 on Wednesday, September 7. Eight members of the board attended the meeting. Nathen Harvey and Thom May from Chef Software were also there to observe and advise.
Read moreIntroducing Developer Certificate of Origin
Hello Chefs! Currently, Chef asks each contributor to a Chef-managed open source project to sign a contributor license agreement (“CLA”) or to be part of a corporate contributor license agreement (“CCLA”) signed by their employer.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef Awards – 2016
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
Read moreDon’t ChefConf Alone!
DevOps is meant to be collaborative. It’s about shared experiences — and so is ChefConf. Agile development practices teach us the technique of pair programing, so it only makes sense to extend that philosophy to pair conference attending.
Read moreNominate an Awesome Community Chef
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
Read more6 Reasons to Submit a Talk for ChefConf 2016
Whether you’ve attended yourself, or have been told by a friend, you know ChefConf is rad. What makes it even better? Presenting. Give back to the Community you love, help others overcome challenges, get feedback and validation for your ideas, heck, do it for the glory.
Read moreChef Board of Governance Meeting
Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 marked the first meeting of the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) in San Francisco. In attendance were 11 of the members of the board, as well as Nathen Harvey and Thom May from Chef Software to observe and advise as the leads of the community teams at Chef Software.
Read moreChefConf 2016 – Build. Deliver. Delight.
If you’ve been to ChefConf before, you know it’s not your typical tech conference. If you haven’t, this is your year. Our annual get together is like a huge family reunion open to everyone that celebrates a vibrant and passionate community of revolutionaries, game-changers, and disruptors.
Read moreChef Board of Governance – Election Results
The votes are in and we have elected our final members for the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB). We will be meeting on a quarterly basis to provide input and formal recommendations regarding the project scope. Please join me in congratulating everyone who has been elected!
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