Working at a full service internet bureau I was shocked to see their way of storing credentials. The most shocking thing was that this seemed to be defacto industry standard behaviour.

A solution for the developers was soon found in pass, the standard UNIX password manager.

Unfortunately management in unable (or rather unwilling) to use CLI tools. So in two evenings I wrote a quick graphical read-only password viewer that used pass to allow management to view passwords. As an added bonus, all internal mails between developers and management were now instantly encrypted aswel.

I put it on github, under a group label, did a little hackathon to have people help me translate it to some languages and thought that was it.

But this was only the start of my adventures into opensource project management.