Sponsored by Linode Panelists Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer Guest Nathan Schneider University of Colorado Boulder Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have special guest, Nathan Schneider, a Professor of Media Studies at CU Boulder. He also runs a new little outfit called Media Enterprise Design Lab. In today’s episode, Nathan will tell us what he does, how he got to where he is today, and he explains what he means by, ...
Jul 17, 2020•38 min
Sponsored by Linode Panelists Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer Guest Tobie Langel Show Notes Welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Tobie Langel, the Founder of UnlockOpen, from Geneva, Switzerland. Tobie tells us all about UnlockOpen and what he does there. He tells us how he focuses on convincing companies that they need to contribute back to Open Source. Other topics we will talk about are DevOps culture, prototype JavaScript framew...
Jul 10, 2020•41 min
Sponsored by Linode Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer Guest Kaitlin Thaney Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have Kaitlin Thaney, who is the Executive Director for Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). Kaitlin will tell us all about IOI and what she’s doing there. She also explains the history of the Mozilla Science Lab and how her team came up with it. How has COVID impacted the organization, especially sin...
Jul 03, 2020•41 min
Sponsored By Linode Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Cindy Wang Sr. Director, Product Management, Yahoo Knowledge Graph Verizon Media Gil Yehuda Sr. Director of Open Source Verizon Media Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have special guests, Gil Yehuda and Cindy Wang, who both work for Verizon Media, which is a combination of a bunch of companies, predominantly Yahoo and AOL. Gil is Senior Director, Open Source Program and Cindy is Sr. Dir...
Jun 26, 2020•47 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Dave Gandy Font Awesome Show Notes Producer's note: When the show "ends," we are still recording while we all say goodbye. This time our goodbye turned into a great conversation with Dave after we finished recording Episode 33 . With Font Awesome 6 coming out soon, we thought, why not celebrate by taking that extra tape and make an extension /bonus/part-2 episode? We hope you enjoy it! 🍩 Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episod...
Jun 19, 2020•15 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Bogdan Vasilescu Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have Bogdan Vasilescu, who is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. We start out by learning what Bogdan builds at the STRUDEL Lab. Then we discuss, “The GHTorrent project.” We also learn about the research that he and his group at CMU have been doing on open source sustainability. There are a few papers on to...
Jun 12, 2020•45 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Dr. Carlos Maltzahn Show Notes 💬 Discuss this episode Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have a really interesting guest, Dr. Carlos Maltzahn, who’s a Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz. He teaches Computer Science and Engineering and specializes in storage systems. Carlos is going to teach us all about his project CROSS (Center for Research in Open Source Software). He will tell us how they get proj...
Jun 05, 2020•36 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guests Justin Flory RIT Javier “Javi” Canovas Open University of Catalonia Show Notes This is a special episode where we are talking about the working groups that came out of the Sustain Summit in Brussels back in January. Today, we have Justin Flory, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology and Javier “Javi” Canovas, from Barcelona, an Assistant Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, who are very involved in the Sustain Wor...
May 29, 2020•42 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Patrick Masson Open Source Initiative Show Notes In this episode, we have Patrick Masson, who is the General Manager and Board Director of OSI (Open Source Initiative). Patrick gives some very interesting “nerd history” on Open Source Software. Did you know that you can find Open Source Intelligence as a reference to World War 2? Listen here to find out more interesting things about OSI. [00:01:33] We star...
May 22, 2020•45 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Maria Cruz Google Open Source Show Notes In this episode, we have Maria Cruz, Open Source Program Manager at Google. Maria talks about doing community engagements for Cloud Native projects and other things she does at Google. The panelists are curious about how the Open Source movement shifted since COVID-19 took over the world. Also, Maria gives great advice to people who are aspiring to be Program Managers in OSPO (Open Source Pro...
May 15, 2020•31 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Richard Littauer Guest Rachel Lawson Drupal Association Show Notes In this episode, we have Rachel Lawson, from the U.K., who is the Community Liaison for Drupal Association. She is going to tell you all about the Drupal Association, what role she plays, and what she does. Since DrupalCon has been canceled due to COVID-19, there are some major things going on with sponsors that are still contributing money, the founder of Drupal maki...
May 08, 2020•38 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Henry Zhu Babel Show Notes [00:01:30] Henry explains how he got involved in Babel and how it’s funded. [00:03:18] Eric wonders if Henry wishes he could just step away and just cut ties with it and go do something completely different and how tight is he with this project. He gives a great answer to this! [00:04:39] Pia was wondering if Henry’s relationship with the project itself or his view with Babel cha...
May 01, 2020•38 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Dave Gandy Font Awesome Founder | CEO Fonticons, Inc. Show Notes If you’ve never heard of Font Awesome, or even if you have, this episode is worth taking a listen to. Our special guest today is Dave Gandy, who is one of the main people behind Font Awesome. He has some super inspiring advice that we all could use right now with everything going on in the world. On a funny note, which way is the best way to hang toilet pa...
Apr 24, 2020•42 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guests Megan Sanicki Open Source Program Office at Google Duane O’Brien Head of Open Source at Indeed Show Notes This is a continuation of our mini COVID-19 coverage series podcast. Today, we have special guests, Megan Byrd-Sanicki and Duane O’Brien, who are FOSS Responders. We are talking about how does the Open Source Ecosystem deal with this and how do we, as Open Source Developes think about this, and how do members feel that can’t ho...
Apr 17, 2020•26 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer Guest Whitney Hess Executive Coach Show Notes Whitney Hess is the special guest today. She is an Executive Coach, supporting business leaders of various kinds to help them be the best version of themselves. With COVID-19 happening right now it’s affecting everyone. People are stressed, overwhelmed, emotional, anxious, and have a whole rollercoaster of emotions. Remember, we are all human and you are not alone. And, if you’ve ...
Apr 10, 2020•30 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry Show Notes COVID-19 is the main focus today and how it is ripping through the open source ecosystem. Although you may be tired of listening to it, the guys get real and speak from the heart and talk about the affects it is having on people all over the country, especially maintainers and coders. The message here is, “BE KIND TODAY!” 02:37 Justin talks about keeping busy with SustainOSS stuff and he’s been listening to an Audi...
Apr 03, 2020•23 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Allen “Gunner” Gunn Guest Kyle E. Mitchell Attorney, License Zero Show Notes Kyle E. Mitchell is an independent Attorney based in California. Today we talk to him about Open Source subjects such as “License Zero.” He delves into the types of licenses there are, what are their differences, and how they came about. Also, be sure to check out this week’s spotlights for ways to help out during the Coronavirus/COVI...
Mar 27, 2020•47 min
Sponsored By: #28 Cover art uses imagery by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team © OpenStreetMap contributors . Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Maggie Cawley OpenStreetMap US Alyssa Wright OpenStreetMap US | Open Source Collective Show Notes In this episode Justin and Richard talk with Maggie Cawley, Executive Director of the American OpenStreetMap US and Alyssa Wright, current Board Member of OpenStreetMap US. If you’ve never heard of OpenStreetMap US you will learn all about what ...
Mar 13, 2020•38 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry Guest Zeno Rocha Liferay Cloud | Dracula Pro Show Notes In this episode we talk with Zeno Rocha. He is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division. He is responsible for crafting the product strategy, shaping the features, and defining the future of DXP Cloud. Zeno also created the popular Dracula theme. We talk about the success of clipboard.js, Dracula theme, and the importance not just...
Mar 06, 2020•46 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman Guest Georg Link Bitergia | CHAOSS Show Notes In this episode we talk with Georg Link, an Open Source Strategist. He is Director of Sales for Bitergia and Co-Founder, Governing Board Member of the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project. He’s a native of Germany, but currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska. 04:21 Georg explains how he spent his last five years as he joined the PhD program, how he dove into Open Source, and his research ...
Feb 28, 2020•43 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Don Goodman-Wilson Maintainerati Foundation Show Notes In this episode we talk with Don Goodman-Wilson, from Amsterdam. He’s a philosopher-engineer experienced in developer advocacy, Founder of Katsudon.tech, and Board Member at Maintainerati Foundation. 1:18 Don explains Maintainerati’s mission and brings up a point about how to create a network of support among maintainers. 04:10 Don talks about having no insight in the Japanese o...
Feb 21, 2020•42 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn Guest Gareth Rushgrove Snyk Show Notes In this episode, we talk with Gareth Rushgrove, from Cambridge, UK, Director of Project Management at a security software startup called Snyk. He has spoken at a number of international technology conferences over the past few years, including FOSDEM , RAMP , BACON , QCon , PuppetConf , Monitorama , GOTO and Velocity. Security and Open Source don’t often go together...
Feb 14, 2020•44 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn Guest Josh Simmons Salesforce | Open Source Initiative Show Notes In this episode we talk with Josh Simmons, Senior Open Source Strategist at Salesforce Engineering. He is a community strategist, open source advocate, and dusty- foot philosopher. He also serves as Vice President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). 4:10 Josh talks about how he started in Open Source and his background. 7:27...
Feb 07, 2020•54 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Ibiam Chihurumnaya Sugar Labs Show Notes 00:55 In today’s episode, we have Ibiam Chihurumnaya. He is a developer based in Nigeria. Ibiam works with Sugar Labs where he develops and maintains software for children. Also, as a way of giving back to society, he trains children how to code. So far, they have trained over 800 children. He is here to share with us how he started his programming journey and the wonderful thing...
Jan 24, 2020•41 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Eric Berry | Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn Guest Justin W. Flory Rochester Institute of Technology Show Notes In this episode we talk with Justin Flory, quite possibly the future of Open Source Sustainability. Justin fell into the Open Source world as a 15-year-old out of necessity while trying to build and maintain his Minecraft server. Justin currently attends the Rochester Institute of Technology, currently the only institute of higher learning off...
Jan 17, 2020•39 min
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry Guest Gidi (Gideon) Morris Principal software engineer at Elastic Show Notes 00:44 : The special guest for this episode of Sustain is Gidi (Gideon) Morris. Gidi is the principal software engineer at Elastic and has been in the industry for about two decades now. 03:08 : He discusses his worries within not just the open source world, but the entire tech industry. Justin furthers the questions that Gidi raise about the open source world and the v...
Jan 10, 2020•48 min
Summary Allen Gunn aka Gunner self-identifies as a recovering software engineer and CTO. After the dot-com bubble popped circa 2000 he founded a non-profit called Aspiration which is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization. For those lucky enough to have attended an event Gunner has facilitated will know, he has the gift of gab. He was so good on this episode that we asked him to become a permanent host/panelist and he said YES! Panelists Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer...
Jan 06, 2020•48 min
Panelists Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer | Eric Berry Guest Ewa Jodlowska Executive Director at Python Software Foundation Show Notes 01:20 How Ewa Got Started in Open Source 02:38 Keeping the Python Culture Going Concentrating on Diversity 03:32 Challenges the PSF is Dealing With 04:10 PyCon Revenue Location 07:58 PSF Sponsorship Program Impact Report PSF Grants Program 12:05 BDFL Steps Down Evolution of Python Since 15:25 Where Developers are Going with Python Web Development ...
Dec 13, 2019•40 min
Sponsored By: Summary Lorenzo Sciandra talks about being an Open Source maintainer, how Formidable provides Open Source, the benefits of open source, expanding open source, and who is behind Formidable. Panelists Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer | Eric Berry Guest Lorenzo Sciandra @kelset Show Notes 02:42 Being an Open Source Maintainer React Native Provided As Is 08:40 How Formidable Provides Open Source 14:03 Explaining the Benefits of Open Source to Other Companies 16:38 Expand...
Dec 05, 2019•44 min
Serkan is a freelance software developer who has been developing web applications since 2001. Lately he has been working with Angular and ASP.NET. He shares that he has been studying sustainability of open source issues since 2014 and also shares the abridged version of how he came to be involved with the open source community. Richard then asks Serkan to share more details on how he as a developer became interested in open source. He shares how as a developer working on proprietary software he ...
Oct 29, 2019•55 min
