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FLOSS Weekly (Video)

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We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community. Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.
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Episodes

FLOSS Weekly 732: Update Your Kernels! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel, Cyber Resilience Act

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the veteran top-level Linux kernel maintainer, about the human side of how kernel development works, how AI is still just pattern matching, and how life is about updating everything you can. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Greg Kroah-Hartman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, we...

May 17, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 732

FLOSS Weekly 731: Confidential Computing - Dan Middleton, Confidential Computing Consortium

Dan Middleton, of Intel and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), dives deep on the topic of confidential computing (CoCo) and many related concerns, such as Trusted Execution Environments with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Dan Middleton Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and m...

May 10, 20231 hr 5 minEp. 731

FLOSS Weekly 730: Going Off the Grid with Meshtastic - Decentralized Open Source Mesh Network, Meshtastic

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen of Meshtastic about adventures of many kinds—all using open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network that runs on inexpensive, low-power devices. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guests: Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, ...

May 03, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 730

FLOSS Weekly 729: Commitment Issues - Stormy Peters, GitHub Accelerator

Stormy Peters, VP of Communities at GitHub speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly . Peters is one of the most passionate, committed, informed, and important leaders in the open-source world today. The panel covers AI, commitment, dependencies, funding, learning models, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Stormy Peters Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our...

Apr 26, 20231 hr 3 minEp. 729

FLOSS Weekly 728: Open Season On Open Source - Mike Milinkovich and the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe

"What's going on with forming the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe has the potential to do enormous harm to the open source movement and to the future prosperity of the entire human race," says Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation, this week's guest on FLOSS Weekly. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an important topic to discuss in open source. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with Milinkovich about this important matter. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Mike Milinkovich Downloa...

Apr 19, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 728

FLOSS Weekly 727: Homomorphic Encryption: the Next Big Thing - Rand Hindi, Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Rand Hindi of Zama joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to discuss the importance of encryption and the benefits of homomorphic encryption. It's a great discussion with many branches of topics surrounding encryption and data privacy on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Dr. Rand Hindi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer a...

Apr 12, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 727

FLOSS Weekly 726: Mojaloop and Digital Public Goods - Paula Hunter, Mojaloop, Unbanked World

Paula Hunter of Mojaloop talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about using open source, open data, open standards, open content, and other DPGs—Digital Public Goods—to make transactions cheaper and easier in the unbanked world. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Paula Hunter Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and mus...

Apr 05, 20231 hr 11 minEp. 726

FLOSS Weekly 725: VanillaOS on a Stick - Pietro di Caprio, VanillaOS

Pietro di Caprio joins Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers to discuss VanillaOS, a new Linux distro with a hot new feature: it's immutable. Hosts: Doc Searls , Katherine Druckman , and Shawn Powers Guest: Pietro di Caprio Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Clu...

Mar 29, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 725

FLOSS Weekly 724: The Wide World of Open Radio - Levi C. Maaia, Ham Radio

Doc Searls and Shawn Powers take a deep dive into the open source and open data slices of ham radio with Levi C. Maaia, an accomplished pilot, filmmaker, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Levi C. Maaia Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at ...

Mar 22, 20231 hr 1 minEp. 724

FLOSS Weekly 723: Freedom to Fork - Open Source Communities & Democracy With Seth Frey

How open source communities form, fork, and govern themselves are just a few of the many topics UC-Davis professor Seth Frey talks about with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps in an insight-filled show. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Seth Frey Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad...

Mar 15, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 723

FLOSS Weekly 722: DIY Broadcasting With Open Source - Open Source Broadcasting, Tim Pozar and Brian David

DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian David telling Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb about a large assortment of open-source tools and approaches that are ready to go for creators and broadcasters. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guests: Tim Požar and Brian David Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Week...

Mar 08, 20231 hr 5 minEp. 722

FLOSS Weekly 721: Hacking, Convergence and HyperPurism - Kyle Rankin, Purism, Mobile Phone & Linux Computing Convergence

Kyle Rankin of Purism joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about how his company's Linux laptop and Librem 5 phone converge with the company's new Lapdock, plus the past and future of hacker culture, how supply chains really work, and convergence in general. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Kyle Rankin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Rob...

Mar 01, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 721

FLOSS Weekly 720: Fostering an Open Source Culture - Arun Gupta on Generative AI, OpenJDK, CNCF

Arun Gupta, VP and General Manager of Open Ecosystems at Intel Corporation, joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Gupta has been an open source strategist, advocate and practitioner for nearly two decades, and is currently an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, where he works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow the cloud native ecosystem. A great discussion around open source, AI and another personal passion Gu...

Feb 22, 20231 hr 9 minEp. 720

FLOSS Weekly 719: Let the Wiki Win! - Peter Kaminski, Decentralized vs Centralized, Massive Wiki

Pete Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a deep wikis (especially his Massive one), how AI helps us collaborate spatially in the natural versus the connected worlds. Great conversations covering many topics beyond wikis. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Peter Kaminski Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, fo...

Feb 15, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 719

FLOSS Weekly 718: Future of openSUSE Leap - Luboš Kocman, Douglas DeMaio, openSUSE Leap

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Luboš Kocman and Douglas DeMaio about openSUSE Leap, where it's going, and lots of related Linux and open source issues coming up now and in the near future. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guests: Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for ou...

Feb 08, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 718

FLOSS Weekly 717: SCaLE Is Still Huge - Ilan Rabinovitch, SCaLE and Open Source Conferences

Ilan Rabinovitch explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how SCaLE has grown to become the premier Linux and open-source conference—and to stay extremely affordable as well. Also how Linux, open source, conferences, communities, companies, and much else have changed over the years. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Ilan Rabinovitch Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twi...

Feb 01, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 717

FLOSS Weekly 716: Desperately Seeking Software Freedom - Christine Hall, FOSS Force, Software Freedom

Christine Hall gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps a tour of the glorious past, troubling present, and uncertain future of free software and open source, which makes both as well as a discussion on the GPL. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Hall Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv . Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Ge...

Jan 25, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 716

FLOSS Weekly 715: Lower Cloud Costs for Java - Bellsoft, Alpaquita Linux, Liberica JDK

Alex Belokrylov of Bellsoft tells Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how Java has evolved into an ideal language for cloud infrastructure, especially through the Liberica JDK and Bellsoft's new Alpaquita Linux distro: the only Linux optimized for Java. Reduced costs, faster deployment, better security, and a brightening future are just a few of the topics discussed on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Alexander Belokrylov Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit....

Jan 18, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 715

FLOSS Weekly 714: Sugar Labs and Music Blocks - Music Composition in Open Source, Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender

Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender of Sugar Labs join Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly. Searls and Lynch learn how kids can compose music and produce code with open source Music Blocks. You can learn too, in just an hour of fun listening. Or, even better, by watching this week's video. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guests: Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Ema...

Jan 11, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 714

FLOSS Weekly 713: "Let's Put Thoughts on the Blockchain" - LastPass Databreach, Linux Desktop 2023, Blockchain

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett kick off the new year with a round table discussion regarding the world of open source. The hosts are joined by a special guest for this discussion, Leo Laporte. It's a great discussion regarding open source security, centralized versus decentralized products on the web, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls , Jonathan Bennett , Katherine Druckman , and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your o...

Jan 04, 20231 hr 6 minEp. 713
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