X World 2025

You Can Help - Contributing to your favourite MacAdmin open source tools

Managing Macs would be nothing like it is today without the many open source tools and scripts that are provided by countless others in the MacAdmin community, whether they solve a problem or provide a service. We rely on many of these tools daily to do our jobs effectively. Helping out and contributing is a great way to show your apreciation to those that work on these projects and is a great way to feed back into a resource that gives so much. You don't even need to be a developer or be able to write a script. In this talk we'll go over a number of ways you can lend a hand using real world examples on projects you may already be using, and also what to expect when offering help and the best ways to go about it.

About the presenter

Bart has worked for the CSIRO for over 23 years and is based in Canberra. Bart currently works for CSIRO’s desktop infrastructure team and leads development for the Mac and Linux Desktop SOE’s, managing 1500 macOS and Linux workstations using JAMF, FleetDM, Munki and other open source tools. He has contributed to Munki, macOSLAPS, Nudge and Outset open source projects, as well as developed swiftDialog using SwiftUI and released as open source to the macadmins community.