FLOSS Weekly (Video)
195 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe'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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FLOSS Weekly 682: Free and Open P2P Team Chat with Quiet - Holmes Wilson, Quiet
May 25, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 1.05 GB VideoHolmes Wilson explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how central servers limit personal freedom, and how you can improve the quality of private P2P team chat and collaboration like Slack and Discord with Quiet, his open source team's work in progress. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Holmes Wilson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabo...
FLOSS Weekly 681: Yes, UCAN - James Walker, Fission.codes and UCAN
May 18, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 979 MB VideoUser Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are just one of the many new and useful approaches to decentralization that James Walker, of fission.codes, shares with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch. If you want a detailed dose of pure optimism about Web3 working for you and me, this is the episode for you on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: James Walker Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOS...
FLOSS Weekly 680: Asahi Linux on M1 Hardware - Hector Martin, Linux on Macs
May 11, 2022 18:09 - 1 hour - 1.03 GB VideoHector Martin of Asahi Linux schools Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett with a massive sum of fresh, deep and interesting facts about Apple's new M1 hardware, and Asahi's promise and progress toward doing everything on it. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Hector Martin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musici...
FLOSS Weekly 679: Open Jobs in Open Source - Amit Taylor, TrueUP.io
May 04, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 1010 MB VideoAmit Taylor of TrueUp.io joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for a deep dive booming market for open source talent. TrueUp has an amazing array of data and ready connections between demand and supply in the marketplace for dream tech jobs. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Amit Taylor Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web...
FLOSS Weekly 678: Of Musk, Mastodon and More - Ethan Zuckerman, Mastodon and the Future of Twitter
April 27, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 922 MB VideoNow that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Ethan Zuckerman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musicia...
FLOSS Weekly 677: Open Source and Data Visualization - Melody Meckfessel, Observable
April 20, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 1.03 GB VideoMelody Meckfessel of Observable schools Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about how early it is and how far we've come with open source and data visualization. A deep and exciting show, rich with insight and promise of a better-visualized future in analytics. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Melody Meckfessel Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lu...
FLOSS Weekly 676: A Platform for Maintainers - Tidelift, Jeremy Katz, Luis Villa
April 13, 2022 20:30 - 59 minutes - 856 MB VideoTidelift co-founders Jeremy Katz and Luis Villa join Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on this episode of FLOSS Weekly to discuss how maintainers should be paid. You might think the answer would be different for every codebase, but not if there's a platform for doing it. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guests: Jeremy Katz and Luis Villa Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. ...
FLOSS Weekly 675: The Plausible(.io) Alternative to Google Analytics - Plausible, Adblocking, Open Source Analytics
April 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 1.05 GB VideoMarko Saric of Plausible joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to unpack the challenges and rewards of dropping Google Analytics and using an open source alternative such as Plausible.io. This conversation is especially timely given a shifting regulatory environment in which—among other developments—Google Analytics has lately been declared illegal in France and Austria. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Marko Saric Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-we...
FLOSS Weekly 674: Janus WebRTC - Lorenzo Miniero, Meetcho
March 30, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 942 MB VideoLorenzo Miniero of Meetecho and the author of the Janus open source WebRTC server, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for an informative conversation regarding live streaming and broadcasting, new and better ways to bring in network devices, OBS, virtual and hybrid events, WHIP, the open source future of real time communication, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Lorenzo Miniero Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think y...
FLOSS Weekly 673: Frontiers of Trust - Drummond Reed, Trust Over IP, SSI
March 23, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 968 MB VideoDrummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Drummond Reed Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open sourc...
FLOSS Weekly 672: Wartime Roundtable - Gitlab vs Russia, AMD Linux GPU Support
March 16, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 955 MB VideoWhen war over territory develops in the physical world, what happens to developers in the borderless networked one? Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett dive into that question, while also visiting other wartime tech topics, such as the new Universal Chiplet, exciting new device drivers and the first 300 Starlinks in Ukraine. Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Katherine Druckman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open ...
FLOSS Weekly 671: WordPress Evolutions - Matt Mullenweg, WordPress
March 09, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 1020 MB VideoMatt Mullenweg, founder, CEO and president of Automattic, talks to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how WordPress—their main product and open source project—is the "dark matter of the Web." He also tells us what's up with Tumblr, Openverse, WooCommerce, the Gutenberg block editor, and other projects among the many the company is up to. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Matt Mullenweg Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your ope...
FLOSS Weekly 670: SSI and Digital wallets - Darrell O'Donnell, Digital Wallets
March 02, 2022 20:48 - 1 hour - 985 MB VideoDarrell O'Donnell of Continuum Loop tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how digital wallets will have to work in a world of self-sovereign identity (SSI) on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Digital wallets will have all the identity information you need, but with the ability to confine output to only what another party needs to know and nothing more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Darrell O'Donnell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your...
FLOSS Weekly 669: Free + / vs. Open - Jon "maddog" Hall, Free Software vs Open Software
February 23, 2022 20:15 - 1 hour - 1.01 GB VideoWhat does Jon "maddog" Hall—a man with 15,000 FLOSS-related t-shirts have to say? Lots about everything free, open and otherwise, in a conversation that occasionally turns to an argument between maddog, Simon Phipps, and host Doc Searls. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Jon "maddog" 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 [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web d...
FLOSS Weekly 668: Marketing Open Source - Rob La Gessee, OpenStack, AWS
February 16, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 1.08 GB VideoRob La Gesse, whose career spans business, military, politics and other fields, tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how inventive marketing helped make Rackspace a social media star while the company also teamed up with NASA and others on OpenStack, which is still helping grow the cloud business outside of Amazon. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Rob La Gesse Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should...
FLOSS Weekly 667: Open Source Onboarding - Ramón Huidobro, CodeSee
February 09, 2022 20:10 - 1 hour - 995 MB VideoRamón Huidobro of CodeSee joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Open source is bigger and wilder than ever, which means onboarding talent to a project is a serious thing. And nobody knows more or better about onboarding than Huidobro of CodeSee, which visualizes dependencies and much more in your codebase. In this episode, Huidobro clues the FLOSS Weekly hosts and listeners into what's involved with visualizing codebases, bringing talent in, working as ensembles...
FLOSS Weekly 667: Open Source Onboarding - Ramón Huidobro, CodeSee
February 09, 2022 20:10 - 1 hour - 995 MB VideoRamón Huidobro of CodeSee joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Open source is bigger and wilder than ever, which means onboarding talent to a project is a serious thing. And nobody knows more or better about onboarding than Huidobro of CodeSee, which visualizes dependencies and much more in your codebase. In this episode, Huidobro clues the FLOSS Weekly hosts and listeners into what's involved with visualizing codebases, bringing talent in, working as ensemble...
FLOSS Weekly 666: Hackaday - Elliot Williams, Open Source & Hacking
February 02, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 973 MB VideoHackaday.com is what its new editor-in-chief, Elliot Williams, calls "a library of Alexandra for fugitive hacks"—and that's just one of the many deep and quotable things he shares with Doc Searls and co-host Jonathan Bennett, who is also a veteran Hackaday writer. Topics range from hackable gizmo and the hacker mindset, to how great open firmware hacks become bait for cool new hackable products coming out of China. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Elliott Williams Download o...
FLOSS Weekly 665: The Open Source Initiative - Stefano Maffulli, OSI
January 26, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 861 MB VideoStefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out! Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps Guest: Stefano Maff...
FLOSS Weekly 664: Tailscale - Avery Pennarun, VPN
January 19, 2022 21:52 - 1 hour - 1020 MB VideoAvery Pennarun of Tailscale and much more, blows the minds of Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on a can't-miss show that explains how the best development is all "chickens and eggs." Pennarun explains thatfree software and open source is the gifting nature of the former, and how startups succeed and fail at crossing chasms. All while touching on so much more that we now have a Part 2 of the discussion planned. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guest: Avery Pennarun Download or subscribe to...
FLOSS Weekly 663: UNIX as a Second Language - Sandra Henry-Stocker
January 12, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 809 MB VideoSandra Henry-Stocker, @bugfarm on Twitter, whose column for Network World is Unix as a Second Language, joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch from her home in the mountains of Western Virginia to share wisdom gathered from more than 30 years administering and writing about Unix and Linux systems. The topics range widely to adjacent subjects, including astronomy, containers and lesser operating systems. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Sandra Henry-Stocker Download or subscribe to this sho...
FLOSS Weekly 662: FreeBSD - Deb Goodkin, Linux vs FreeBSD
January 05, 2022 21:30 - 1 hour - 994 MB VideoDeb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. There are lots of ways FreeBSD is not Linux or vice versa. Or ways they're actually better for some purposes. Just ask Netflix. In a lively hour of conversation, Goodkin visits many operating systems and related topics regarding the open source world as well as FreeBSD. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Deb Goodkin Download or subscribe to this show at http...
FLOSS Weekly 661: Open Source for Observability - Computer Security, VIZIO Lawsuit
December 22, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 946 MB VideoIs it a coincidence that observability is both an essential feature of open source and also a scourge of our wantonly spied lives online? Can we use the former to solve the latter? That and many other questions are discussed during FLOSS Weekly. Join Doc Searls as he is joined by co-hosts Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps for a year-end look at the crazy state of our connected world and discussing other topics such as the VIZIO class-action lawsuit & the Linux Tech Tips Linux challenge. Ho...
FLOSS Weekly 660: Open Source Audio and The Weasel - Ennuicastr, Log4j
December 15, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 850 MB Video"Yannis Weasel" isn't real, but his creations are. Craig is indispensable for multi-track voice channel recording on Discord, and Ennuicastr lets you record everything else online. On FLOSS Weekly, "Yannis" joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss these projects, the open source community around digital audio processing as well as the dreaded Log4j security flaw previously announced in open source news. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Yannis Wiesel Download or subsc...
FLOSS Weekly 659: Open Source and Amateur Radio - Steve Stroh
December 08, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 1.07 GB VideoSteve Stroh (N8GNJ) joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett (KG5IAR) for an hour of conversation regarding the world of wireless communication, HAM radio and open source. It's quite the masterclass as he discusses how HAM radio modeled and still practices openness for the world, packet radio, TNCs, SDRs (and transceivers) WSJT, Helium, LoRa, the ups and downs of crypto, WSPRnet, CHIRP, disaster recovery, making antennas, StarLink, mesh networks and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan B...
FLOSS Weekly 658: The Me2B's Knees - Lisa LeVasseur
December 01, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 949 MB VideoLisa LeVasseur is a veteran engineer on a mission to get the businesses of the world, the "B's," to treat each of us, the "Me's," more respectfully online. That's one mission of her nonprofit, the Me2B Alliance. LeVasseur discusses with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman in a show that also explores new approaches to standards development, privacy versus security, diversity in tech and other long hauls on which real progress is being made. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: L...
FLOSS Weekly 657: Web 3.0 and Beyond - WordPress Breach, SCO vs IBM lawsuit
November 24, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 889 MB VideoWhat never stops and what's barely started are the topics debated by our panel of co-hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Aaron Newcomb and Simon Phipps. We start with the SCO vs. IBM (and before that, many others) lawsuit, which was reportedly settled. What really happened with the GoDaddy and WordPress breach? It's been 25 years of PHP and then look forward to the time when we're all in Web 4.0 talking about what failed in Web 3.0. Hosts: Doc Searls, Aaron Newcomb, Simon Phipps, and Ka...
FLOSS Weekly 656: Switching to Linux - and Much Else - Intel on Linux, System76
November 17, 2021 21:30 - 1 hour - 906 MB VideoDoc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb are together on FLOSS Weekly taking a look at the challenges of switching to Linux, even though Linux runs on many things used in everyday life. System76 has decided to build a non-Gnome desktop for its distro. Why? Bennett addresses the allegations of Intel being optimized for Windows 11, but not taking Linux into consideration. It's a fun discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Aaron Newcomb Dow...
FLOSS Weekly 655: Open Source and Digital Public Goods - Kosta Peric
November 10, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 949 MB VideoDeputy Director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Kosta Peric sits with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a discussion on digital public goods as well as how the cashless future is being pioneered in Africa and other countries around the world. It's a fascinating discussion on the challenges of being unbanked and poor in developing countries and how big tech and the open source community can help solve these problems to grant more financial inclusion for ...
FLOSS Weekly 654: Financial Inclusion and Mojaloop - Paula Hunter
November 03, 2021 20:39 - 1 hour - 919 MB VideoPaula Hunter, Executive Director of Mojaloop, joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the state of digital payments today. Mojaloop is an open-source project that provides the rails for interoperable digital payments between financial institutions, including banks and mobile phone companies. Particularly, in Africa and other parts of the world, where most people transact business in cash or typically use low-cost Android phones in multiple currencies and countries. It's...
FLOSS Weekly 653: Web Servers and Cybercrime - Paul Mutton
October 27, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 1.01 GB VideoPaul Mutton of Netcraft gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman an hour of wisdom, experience and stories about items we can worry about less because he and Netcraft are on the case. If you care about cybercrime, phishing, malware, or any of the many vulnerabilities that afflict us all online, this episode of FLOSS Weekly is for you—especially if you operate web servers. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Paul Mutton Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/sh...
FLOSS Weekly 652: Faces of Open Source - Peter Adams
October 20, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 978 MB VideoPhotographer Peter Adams joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. The Mount Rushmore of Open Source is Adams' "Faces of Open Source," which is 100 faces strong so far. Including the faces of Searls and Phipps. Adams talks about the project, plus the history and future of open source, blockchain and NFTs, his work as a journalist, historian, entrepreneur. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Peter Adams Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-wee...
FLOSS Weekly 651: Open Source and Construction - Mary Hodder
October 13, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 962 MB VideoSilicon Valley technology veteran, Mary Hodder, joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly to talk open source in construction. Home construction is the original open-source field, and nobody knows more about making it work than Hodder. Where does open source fit in the world of construction and building codes? Hodder details it all on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guest: Mary Hodder Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly ...
FLOSS Weekly 650: Decentralizing Social Networks - James Vasile
October 06, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 1010 MB VideoCan social media be decentralized? James Vasile of Open Tech Strategies and DSNP is working on several projects at once toward that goal. Vasile touches on these goals and much more including the fediverse, palgorithms (personal algorithms), advantages and limits of clouds and blockchains. It's a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: James Vasile Download or subscribe to this show at http...
FLOSS Weekly 649: Open Firmware - Daniel Maslowski
September 29, 2021 20:30 - 55 minutes - 834 MB VideoDaniel Maslowski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk about open firmware. Open firmware is an almost ironic term, especially for IP cameras, given the proprietary purposes of most manufacturers. There is a large and active community of code and developments around open firmware, led largely in part by Maslowski. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Daniel Maslowski Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be o...
FLOSS Weekly 648: Pop!_OS and System76 - Carl Richell, Pop!_OS
September 22, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 938 MB VideoCarl Richell, founder and CEO of System76 joins Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. He's been selling Linux laptops and desktops for years, and now leads the team behind the easy-to-use Pop!_OS One of his biggest fans, Leo Laporte, also joins the show. Open Firmware, what's new in the OS, and the perfect hardware for keyboard nerds and upcoming news for System 76 are part of the show discussions. Bennett finally gets the scoop behind the "Pop!_OS" name. A fun show with great ...
FLOSS Weekly 648: Pop!_OS and System76 - Carl Richell, Pop_OS!
September 22, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 938 MB VideoCarl Richell, founder and CEO of System76 joins Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. He's been selling Linux laptops and desktops for years, and now leads the team behind the easy-to-use Pop_OS! One of his biggest fans, Leo Laporte, also joins the show. Open Firmware, what's new in the OS, and the perfect hardware for keyboard nerds and upcoming news for System 76 are part of the show discussions. Bennett finally gets the scoop behind the "Pop_OS!" name. A fun show with great ...
FLOSS Weekly 647: Gluu and Open Source Digital ID - Mike Schwartz
September 15, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 930 MB VideoMike Schwartz of Gluu.org joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly. In a world where cloud native and containers are widely used, digital identity poses a critical challenge. No one person knows more about making digital ID work than Schwartz. Gluu is an open source option which offers secure authentication for both internal and external applications in the enterprise. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Mike Schwartz Download or subscribe to this show at https:/...
FLOSS Weekly 646: AtomicJar and Testcontainers - Richard North
September 08, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 1010 MB VideoRichard North was the dog that caught the bus when all of a sudden his open source project, Testcontainers, took off, and now has more than a million monthly downloads and developers using it at Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google and other settings large and small. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Richard about how he caught the bus he ended up driving, how he set up Testcontainers.org, stood up Atomicjar.com as a running business backed by smart capital, and put learnings to use through a si...
FLOSS Weekly 645: Privacy and Adtech - Don Marti, Adtech
September 01, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 927 MB VideoFormer Linux Journal editor in chief Don Marti, who Doc Searls calls the world's greatest living authority on online advertising, speaks with Doc and Katherine Druckman about the rapidly changing adtech world. How are companies big and small coping with those changes today? Marti also discusses the "stack of principal agents" problem, why privacy is a massive issue not just for individuals, but for companies with billions of dependents, such as Apple with its iPhone customers. Hosts: Doc S...
FLOSS Weekly 644: OASIS Open - Guy Martin
August 25, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 1.02 GB VideoGuy Martin has worked for everybody and done everything... or at least it seems that way. He also has 100% interesting, deep and knowing thoughts about important issues that have come up in his long career, especially in his current work in the standards world, running Oasis. All of that and more—IoT, standards +/vs open source, substitutability, multiple ecosystems—are on stage for a fact and thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Guy's old friend and colleague Simon Phipp...
FLOSS Weekly 643: Open Source Hiring Trends - Open Source Training
August 18, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 1.04 GB VideoClyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation joins FLOSS Weekly to discuss trends in hiring, training, diversity, the massive demand, as well as the need for both old and new school approaches across every open source code base. Remember when open source was a new thing no company cared about? Now it's something nearly every enterprise can't do without. As a result, demand for talent and training is increasing. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb discuss on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Ne...
FLOSS Weekly 642: Linux Kernel Security and Beyond - Apple CSAM, Linux Kernel
August 11, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 992 MB VideoLinux kernel security done right—by Google, no less—kicks. Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers have a three-way roundtable discussion on FLOSS Weekly discussing recent open source news items. Is Microsoft making it easier than ever to run all your Windows apps and more on Linux? How's the new Steam Deck affecting gaming on Linux? Apple says privacy advocates are "screaming" about the company's CSAM moves. Open source in medical datasets, all of us running our own AI, Comcast fight...
FLOSS Weekly 641: The Open Anniversary - 30 Years of Linux
August 04, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 997 MB VideoThis show is a special date in open source history: the one we share with Nick Vidal, creator and alpha maintainer of Open Anniversary. Through the whole show, Nick schools Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on the important timelines of major and soon-to-be-major open source movements, the cool ways those are being recognized, discussed and celebrated—and how, in the open source way, anyone can contribute new timelines, improvements to existing ones, and ways of celebrating their anniversaries. ...
FLOSS Weekly 640: Open Source Past and Future - QR Code Tracking, Right to Repair
July 28, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 962 MB VideoJonathan Bennett, Dan Lynch and Katherine Druckman join Doc Searls in a roundtable discussion of open source. QR codes are used as fishhooks for tracking. How can this be stopped? Then there's the report of "death of open source" which is wrong (again), rights to make and repair, and much more. Great discussions on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, Dan Lynch, and Katherine Druckman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open...
FLOSS Weekly 639: Open Source and Big Business - Marten Mickos
July 21, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 1000 MB VideoMårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, is a fan of the future of open source who also has vast experience in its past—especially in businesses of all sizes: from MySQL in its early days, through Sun Microsystems, Eucalyptus, HP, Nokia and other companies. All of which he shares with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through an hour filled with insights, interesting history and quotable hunks of wisdom. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Mårten Mickos Download or subscribe to this show at h...
FLOSS Weekly 638: Bufferbloat and Beyond - Dave Taht
July 14, 2021 18:30 - 1 hour - 857 MB VideoDave Taht is one of the Internet's unsung (but singing) heroes, and is doing more than anyone today to rescue your Internet connection from something you haven't heard of, but should: bufferbloat. On FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett spend an information-packed hour with Dave, digging deep into bloated network buffers, bureaucracies, corporate failings, and slow but real progress against all of those, much of it with Dave's leadership. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett G...
FLOSS Weekly 637: Open Source Web Radio with AzuraCast - Buster Neece
July 07, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 891 MB VideoBuster Neece, lead developer of AzuraCasts joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk online radio in the open source community and more. AzuraCast is "web radio in a box" that has an intuitive design and meticulous attention to detail for a great user experience. Neece also shares troubling fallout around the updated Audacity terms of service which lead the community to believe Audacity is becoming spyware. It's a great discussion on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Bust...
FLOSS Weekly 636: RISC-V - Stephano Cetola
June 30, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 911 MB VideoDirector of Technical Programs at RISC-V's, Stephano Cetola joins FLOSS Weekly. The RISC-V International was first to the table with an open-source ISA—Instruction Set Architecture—and every developer with a stake in the future is at that table, as participating members of RISC-V. And these are just two among the many interesting facts Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett learned on this week's show from Cetola. If you care about the past and future of open hardware, nothing can be more importan...
FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon - Jonathan Riddell
June 23, 2021 20:30 - 1 hour - 987 MB VideoJonathan Riddell, who created and leads KDE Neon, gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps the fascinating backstory of the project and what makes it distinctive. Here's a clue, it was inspired by surfing. The conversation also ranges across the past and future of Linux on desktops and laptops, KDE's Akademy, OpenUK and its awards and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Jonathan Riddell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open...