Sustain Our Software
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA weekly discussion about building and growing open source software.
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The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
November 20, 2019 20:00 - 14 minutes - 18.5 MB"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99!
Episode 17: The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
November 20, 2019 20:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99!
Episode 16: SOS 016: Changing Open Source Culture With Serkan Holat
October 29, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 53 MBSerkan 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 softwa...
SOS 016: Changing Open Source Culture With Serkan Holat
October 29, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 56 MBSerkan 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 softwar...
Episode 15: SOS 015: Open Source Leadership With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
October 22, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes - 45 MBThis episode of Sustain our Software features Abigail Cabunoc Mayes. Abigail has a background in bioinformatics and computer science and has an interest in using computers to solve problems in biology. She works for the Mozilla Foundation where she is a practice lead working Open. She has been named in “100 Awesome Women in Open source” and mentioned in Github’s State of the Octoverse 2016. Abigail begins by sharing some of how she got started and what interests her in technology. The discus...
SOS 015: Open Source Leadership With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
October 22, 2019 10:00 - 46 minutes - 48 MBThis episode of Sustain our Software features Abigail Cabunoc Mayes. Abigail has a background in bioinformatics and computer science and has an interest in using computers to solve problems in biology. She works for the Mozilla Foundation where she is a practice lead working Open. She has been named in “100 Awesome Women in Open source” and mentioned in Github’s State of the Octoverse 2016. Abigail begins by sharing some of how she got started and what interests her in technology. The discuss...
Episode 14: SOS 014: Funding Open Source With Gitcoin
October 15, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThe special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of thi...
SOS 014: Funding Open Source With Gitcoin
October 15, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBThe special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of this...
Episode 13: SOS 013: Elevating Musicians Through Open Source with Robert Kaye
October 08, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 50 MBRobert Kaye is the executive director of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the legal umbrella for MusicBrainz. He got started in the late 80’s and early 90’s hacking on some MP3 projects when most of the world hadn’t heard of MP3. The metadata on MP3s was terrible, so he started creating the database known as MusicBrainz. Robert talks about his business model for MusicBrainz. As time has progressed, more and more people have access to a laptop and cheap recording equipment. This constant churn of ...
SOS 013: Elevating Musicians Through Open Source with Robert Kaye
October 08, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 53 MBRobert Kaye is the executive director of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the legal umbrella for MusicBrainz. He got started in the late 80’s and early 90’s hacking on some MP3 projects when most of the world hadn’t heard of MP3. The metadata on MP3s was terrible, so he started creating the database known as MusicBrainz. Robert talks about his business model for MusicBrainz. As time has progressed, more and more people have access to a laptop and cheap recording equipment. This constant churn of d...
SOS 012: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls
October 01, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 49.7 MBEpisode Summary In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub. Benjamin and his partner created Octobox hoping it would be a model of a sustainable open source project, and after 9 months of working on it full time they have been able to step a...
Episode 12: SOS 012: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls
October 01, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 46.8 MBEpisode Summary In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub. Benjamin and his partner created Octobox hoping it would be a model of a sustainable open source project, and after 9 months of working on it full time they have been able to step ...
Episode 11: SOS 011: Diversity in Open Source with Laura Gaetano
September 24, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 47.9 MBIn this week’s episode of Sustain Our Software the panel interviews Laura Gaetano. Laura is a developer and designer, whose main job was running was running Rails Girls Summer of Code. The panel considers how great Rails Girls is and all that they are doing. The panel also expresses their love for the Rails framework. Laura explains the difference between Rails Girls and Rails Girls Summer of Code. The panel asks about the challenges that the Rails Girls Summer of code experience. Laura...
SOS 011: Diversity in Open Source with Laura Gaetano
September 24, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 50.8 MBIn this week’s episode of Sustain Our Software the panel interviews Laura Gaetano. Laura is a developer and designer, whose main job was running was running Rails Girls Summer of Code. The panel considers how great Rails Girls is and all that they are doing. The panel also expresses their love for the Rails framework. Laura explains the difference between Rails Girls and Rails Girls Summer of Code. The panel asks about the challenges that the Rails Girls Summer of code experience. Laura ...
Episode 10: SOS 010: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer
September 17, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 46.5 MBEpisode Summary In this week's episode of Sustain Our software Titus Wormer joins the panel to discuss his experience maintaining Unified.js. Titus is built Unified and is working fulltime maintain Unified. He has a bachelor's in digital design and did his thesis on fixing natural language in wed design using syntax trees. The panel takes a moment to talk about abstract syntax trees. Titus explains how abstract syntax trees help computers understand what is going on in human languages,...
SOS 010: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer
September 17, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 49.5 MBEpisode Summary In this week's episode of Sustain Our software Titus Wormer joins the panel to discuss his experience maintaining Unified.js. Titus is built Unified and is working fulltime maintain Unified. He has a bachelor's in digital design and did his thesis on fixing natural language in wed design using syntax trees. The panel takes a moment to talk about abstract syntax trees. Titus explains how abstract syntax trees help computers understand what is going on in human languages, ...
SOS 009: The Trade-Offs of Using Opensource with Lou Huang
September 10, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 55.1 MBEpisode Summary The panel interviews Lou Huang, who has a background in architecture and urban planning. Lou built an opensource app called Streetmix and uses it to help the panel understand opensource projects from a user's perspective. Lou starts by sharing his background, how he got into opensource and his work making Streetmix sustainable. Lou then explains that most Streetmix users are urban planners and don’t care if it is opensource or not. The panel weighs the trades offs of cho...
Episode 9: SOS 009: The Trade-Offs of Using Opensource with Lou Huang
September 10, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 52.2 MBEpisode Summary The panel interviews Lou Huang, who has a background in architecture and urban planning. Lou built an opensource app called Streetmix and uses it to help the panel understand opensource projects from a user's perspective. Lou starts by sharing his background, how he got into opensource and his work making Streetmix sustainable. Lou then explains that most Streetmix users are urban planners and don’t care if it is opensource or not. The panel weighs the trades offs of ch...
Episode 8: SOS 008: Writing Good Documentation with Chris Ward
September 03, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 50.9 MBSponsors Gitlab Commit Adventures in DevOps Podcast The DevEd Podcast Cachefly Panel Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Chris Ward Episode Summary This week, Sustain Our Software welcomes Chris Ward, Technical Writer at Ethereum from Berlin, Germany. Chris shares his story of how he became a technical writer as well tips and resources for good documentation writing. After many years working as a developer, Chris realized he enjoyed helping others understand technical subject...
SOS 008: Writing Good Documentation with Chris Ward
September 03, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 53.8 MBSponsors Gitlab Commit Adventures in DevOps Podcast The DevEd Podcast Cachefly Panel Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Chris Ward Episode Summary This week, Sustain Our Software welcomes Chris Ward, Technical Writer at Ethereum from Berlin, Germany. Chris shares his story of how he became a technical writer as well tips and resources for good documentation writing. After many years working as a developer, Chris realized he enjoyed helping others understand technical ...
Episode 7: SOS 007: Sustaining Open Source Projects in the International Development and Humanitarian Sector with Heath Arensen
August 27, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 46.6 MBSponsors Gitlab Commit Adventures in DevOps Cachefly Panel Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Heath Arensen Episode Summary Heath Arensen is the Director of Business Planning and Sustainability at the Digital Impact Alliance's Open Source Center. He also supports Open Source projects with consulting and advising in Business Models for sustainability. The discussion opens with a discussion about a quote Heath has in his Twitter account “Belief that the world's best software can be b...
SOS 007: Sustaining Open Source Projects in the International Development and Humanitarian Sector with Heath Arensen
August 27, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 49.5 MBSponsors Gitlab Commit Adventures in DevOps Cachefly Panel Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Heath Arensen Episode Summary Heath Arensen is the Director of Business Planning and Sustainability at the Digital Impact Alliance's Open Source Center. He also supports Open Source projects with consulting and advising in Business Models for sustainability. The discussion opens with a discussion about a quote Heath has in his Twitter account “Belief that the world's best ...
SOS 006: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry
August 20, 2019 03:45 - 49 minutes - 50.6 MBSponsors React Native Radio iPhreaks Show Ruby Rogues Cachefly Panel Eric Berry Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry Episode Summary Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs. Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend t...
Episode 6: SOS 006: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry
August 20, 2019 03:45 - 49 minutes - 47.6 MBSponsors React Native Radio iPhreaks Show Ruby Rogues Cachefly Panel Eric Berry Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry Episode Summary Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs. Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her with her thesis....
SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui
August 13, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 58.4 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Richard Littauer Jon Schlinkert Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui Episode Summary Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences. He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS protocol. Mehdi and the panel s...
Episode 5: SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui
August 13, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 55.5 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Richard Littauer Jon Schlinkert Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui Episode Summary Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences. He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS protocol. Mehdi and the panel shine a light on the lack of compensat...
Episode 4: SOS 004: Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta
August 06, 2019 10:10 - 54 minutes - 52 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta Episode Summary Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open-source software learning p...
SOS 004: Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta
August 06, 2019 10:10 - 54 minutes - 54.9 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Richard Littauer Joined By Special Guest: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta Episode Summary Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open...
SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative
August 06, 2019 10:03 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Greg Bloom Episode Summary Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dile...
Episode 3: SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative
August 06, 2019 10:03 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Greg Bloom Episode Summary Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dilemmas developers are facing ...
SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative
August 06, 2019 10:03 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Eric Berry Joined By Special Guest: Greg Bloom Episode Summary Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dilemmas developers are facing...
Episode 2: SOS 002: Is GitHub Sponsors Good for OSS?
August 06, 2019 10:02 - 46 minutes - 45.1 MBSponsors: CacheFly Panel Richard Littauer Jon Schlinkert Eric Berry Episode Summary The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained b...
SOS 002: Is GitHub Sponsors Good for OSS?
August 06, 2019 10:02 - 46 minutes - 48 MBSponsors: CacheFly Panel Richard Littauer Jon Schlinkert Eric Berry Episode Summary The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open sourc...
SOS 001: Funding Open-Source Projects
August 06, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 50.4 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Richard Littauer Eric Berry Jon Schlinkert Episode Summary This new addition to the Devchat.tv podcast family is about software sustainability, open source projects funding and software maintenance. The panelists introduce themselves and their roles and backgrounds in software sustainability. The panelists also mention that 57% of all software built is open-source and the economic value of open source is over 360 billion dollars so it is cru...
Episode 1: SOS 001: Funding Open-Source Projects
August 06, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 47.4 MBSponsors Cachefly Panel Pia Mancini Richard Littauer Eric Berry Jon Schlinkert Episode Summary This new addition to the Devchat.tv podcast family is about software sustainability, open source projects funding and software maintenance. The panelists introduce themselves and their roles and backgrounds in software sustainability. The panelists also mention that 57% of all software built is open-source and the economic value of open source is over 360 billion dollars so it is crucial to...