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Thanks, Hacktoberfest Hackers!

Holy Hacktoberfest, Batman! If you participated in Hacktoberfest this year, you’ve heard from Digital Ocean about how awesome the participation was this year. Just an incredible amount of PRs were created by folks working towards their Hacktoberfest rewards. What did you learn this year during Hacktoberfest?

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Happy Birthday, Apache2 Cookbook!

Last year, we celebrated Chef’s 10th birthday. A lot can happen in ten years, but a lot also stays the same. One of our other projects that is nearly as old as Chef Infra itself is the Apache2 cookbook.

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Getting the Most Out Of Hacktoberfest – Part 2

So, how’s your Hacktoberfest coming? Got a few PRs in for your favorite projects? Have you learned something new, or gone to a Hacktoberfest event? If not, there’s still time. And we have an added bonus, our amazing design team has put together some new stickers for our Hacktoberfest participants!

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Sous-Chef Community Leaders 2019

Thank you all for voting on the board of Sous-Chefs Community Leaders. Voting has now closed and the results are in. Farewells We would like to wish our fond farewells to the members of the board who have chosen to step down: Dan and Joseph have been instrumental in Sous-Chefs and will be missed.

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Getting the most out of Hacktoberfest – Part 1

Happy Hacktoberfest! Have you been to the Hacktoberfest website to sign up? Have you perused the open Hacktoberfest tagged issues on GitHub? If not, don’t worry. There’s plenty of time to get started. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the options, we have some pointers for helping out with Chef’s projects.

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An Important Update from Chef

Below is a message that I sent to all Chef employees today about recent events affecting Chef.   Chefs, I want to provide an update on recent events affecting Chef and changes that we’re making. As many of you know, we began our work with the U.S. Government in earnest in 2014 and 2015.

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An Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events

[Update on 9/23/2019 at 7.15am] Read blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. I would like to provide an update to the community about the incident that impacted Chef-client run failures yesterday and give you a sense of what has been happening behind the scenes.

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A Personal Message From the CTO

[Update on 9/23/2019 at 8.55pm] Read this blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. Yesterday was one of the most trying days of my career.

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Chef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors

[Update on 9/23/2019 at 8.55pm] Read this blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. Below is an e-mail I sent to all Chef employees today sharing my views on our contract with DHS-ICE. This is an incredibly important, difficult and divisive topic and one I care deeply about.

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Hacktoberfest 2019 with Chef!

It’s that time of year, the leaves are starting to change color in the northern hemisphere, kids are back at school, people who don’t have kids seem to have all gone on vacation at the same time in this “shoulder season”. We’re right around the corner from fall, Halloween, and Hacktoberfest! What is Hacktoberfest?

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