Episode 98: Interview with Gabe Kangas, Creator of Owncast
Linux Lads
English - March 14, 2023 00:27 - 43 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software.
Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!
Discussion
We talked to Gabe Kangas, the creator of Owncast, a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Born out of the sudden silence of the pandemic, it empowers people to stream their events all over the world.
We chatted about the purpose and history of the project, what it means being an open source developer, the freedom and control of running your own server, and the tech behind it all.
PeerTube is more of product, Gabe sees Owncast as more of a piece of infrastructure
Owncast is written in Go, single binaries for everyone!
Connects to OBS, future plans include recording functionality
From concerts to funerals
VPS providers like Hetzner often provide Owncast as a one click install
Support Owncast on open collective
Gabe is always on the lookout for help
Beware of burnout
Gabe's blog post about frontend technologies
Scheduled events are on the horizon
Catch up with Gabe and the project: https://owncast.online/contact/
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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.