At the End of 2024, Perforce announced to stop doing open source work and switch Puppet to a closed source license. The Community decided to continue the open source development - with great success. How did users and the community deal with the sudden license change? How do we built a sustainable community that can carry on the workload, and how can other ecosystems prevent this in the future? I want to provide a deep dive about achievements from the OpenVoxProject within the one year, and I want to give an overview about upcoming topics and possible ways to engage and support the community!
Tim „bastelfreak“ Meusel became a Senior Automation IT Consultant in July 2021. Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany, where he developed and maintained a big public cloud platform. Tim is the driving force behind various open source projects. He is a very active Vox Pupuli Maintainer and Project Management Committee founding member. Tim has been doing work in the DevOps area since 2009 and began persuing Puppet solutions in 2012.