
After years inside proprietary enterprise software, Corey Hulen made a sharp turn toward open source. The result is a career built around a plain but demanding idea: the people doing critical work should control the place where they talk about it.

From a Florida governor's communications office to Mattermost's first C-suite marketing post, Leigh Dow has built a career translating complicated systems for people who cannot afford confusion.

After two decades selling the value of systems most people never see, MCIM’s chief marketing officer now tells the story of software built to keep data centers boring, reliable and on.