Happy Birthday, Lettuce! 🥬✨ Two Years of Helping Us “Let You Get Started”

Happy Birthday, Lettuce! 🥬✨ Two Years of Helping Us “Let You Get Started” Two years ago today, a simple question echoed through the OWASP Slack channels — a question that continues to surface year after year: “Where do I begin?” For newcomers, the OWASP ecosystem is inspiring — but vast. With countless repositories, extensive documentation, and a diverse range of project pages, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed before writing a single line of code. That moment of uncertainty sparked the creation of BLT-Lettuce . Today, we celebrate the project that transformed an intimidating wall of information into a welcoming front door. The Origin: A Conversation and a Commit Lettuce began not with elaborate architecture, but with a practical realization. Through conversations between Donnie Brown and Jason, a clear insight emerged: the best way to support newcomers was to meet them exactly where they already were — on Slack. On February 29, 2024, the first prototype commit landed with a focused missio