In this episode, Bret and Nirmal talk with Brian Douglas of OpenSauced. 💥 This episode is brought to you by our valued sponsor and friends at Veritas!💥Have you thought about the potential risks to your Kubernetes cluster in this era of sophisticated ransomware? Veritas offers unparalleled resilience for stateful Kubernetes applications, providing high availability and robust data protection. Learn how to fortify your business-critical applications with Veritas at https://vrt.as/kubernetes.Brian Douglas, of GitHub fame, has founded OpenSauced, a cool web app and community of open source developers finding their next contribution and maybe their next job. Brian has so many stories of working with open source projects and having conversations with leading open source contributors, while previously being a lead developer advocate at GitHub. So we definitely spend time talking through some of those stories and learning some of that we didn't know about GitHub and open source being run on it. We then dig into how to use the OpenSauced platform he's creating to find your next open source project and get noticed by employers.  Live recording of the complete show from July 13, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #225). ★Topics★OpenSauced websiteBlog article: Good first issues don’t exist You can also support my free material by subscribing to my YouTube channel and my weekly newsletter at bret.news! Grab the best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes courses.Get on the waitlist for my next live course on CI automation and gitops deployments. Join my cloud native DevOps community on Discord.Grab some merch at Bret's Loot BoxHomepage bretfisher.comCreators & Guests Bret Fisher - Host Cristi Cotovan - Editor Beth Fisher - Producer Nirmal Mehta - Host Brian Douglas - Guest (00:00) - (01:29) - Introducing Brian Douglas (01:33) - What is OpenSauced? (03:18) - First steps in contributing to open source (23:01) - Starting a relationship with the maintainers and building trust (29:15) - Finding projects to be passionate about (38:14) - Why contribute to open source?