[owenpalmer]

I tried to become a contributor to Canvas (it's open source), but I couldn't even get a development environment setup because of their storage space requirements.

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start

> It is recommended that you have at least 150GB of available hard drive space, 8GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU to use this script.

As far as I can tell, this is not for running a production environment with assets. This is just the development environment.

[dlcarrier]

I long for the days when FPGA development environments were an order of magnitude more bloated than software development environments. I've tried, on multiple occasions, to build an open-source Android application, and each time I've given up after a few hours of trying to get all the bloat working together well enough to even compile something already written.