In a corner of the industry where an institution of government contractors and political pressure rules, what happens when the wrong person builds the right thing, an unsanctioned structure with unsanctioned resources, when institution isn't watching? In this session, you'll hear about a bored Navy wife butting up against a wartime IT support strategy that involved two Excel spreadsheets and a phone. You'll hear about what she discovered while she built solutions: iterative development as natural evolution in broken systems, open source as a legitimate response to bloated enterprise solutions, frustration and constraint as motivators, and the innovation that emerges when a witch with an old Linux box and time on her hands has nothing to lose.