Learn about Contributor, a podcast about the best open source projects and the communities that build them.

Chef is a popular configuration management solution for system administrators. It is also the name of a company that distributes the software. Adam Jacobs is the creator of both of them as well as other open source projects. Hear from Adam the story of Chef's origins as well as what makes open source communities so important to him. The host, Eric Anderson, is an investor, via Scale Venture Partners, as well as a board member at Chef.