Episode 170: Smera Goel & Dotan Horovits at FOSS Backstage 2023

Guests
Smera Goel | Dotan Horovits
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2023 that is held in Berlin every year.
Today, Richard has two guests joining him. He meets up with Smera Goel who was featured on Episode 3 of our Sustain Open Source Design Podcast. Richard catches up with her and what has been going on the past year and a half. Smera is a Product Designer and an Outreachy Mentor for Fedora. She is also the Mentor Project Representative for Fedora, in charge of looking after the participation of Fedora in different mentorship programs such as Outreachy and Google Summer of Code. Smera works for a startup in Berlin that has some open-source offerings, and she got her job from an open-source design job board. Richard and Smera discuss mentoring mentors and mentees in the context of software sustainability.
Richard’s next guest is Dotan Horovits, who’s the Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.io. and he tells us about his own podcast called "OpenObservability Talks." He explains the dominance of closed-source vendors in the observability space, which has led to a siloed and vendor-locked situation. They also discuss how observability is important for cloud-based web applications and large production systems and how open-source projects should have an open door to the CNCF and how collaborations between different foundations can be beneficial. Download this episode to hear more!
Links
SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/)
SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?lang=en)
FOSS Backstage 2023 (https://foss-backstage.de/)
Smera Goel Website (https://smera.notion.site/)
Smera Goel LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/smera-goel/)
Fedora (https://getfedora.org/)
Sustain Open Source Design Podcast-Episode 3-Smera Goel on Designing in the Fedora Project, Outreachy, and India (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/3)
Dotan Horovits LinkedIn (https://il.linkedin.com/in/horovits)
Dotan Horovits Twitter (https://twitter.com/horovits)
OpenObservability Talks Podcast (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability)
Logz.io (https://logz.io/hp-sandbox/)
OpenObservability Talks on the podcast apps (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability)
OpenObservability Talks on YouTube (videocast) (https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks)
Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron? (https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6)
Open Source for Better Observability (https://horovits.medium.com/open-source-for-better-observability-8c65b5630561)
Credits
Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/)
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)
Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: Dotan Horovits and Smera Goel.

Guests

Smera Goel | Dotan Horovits

Panelist

Richard Littauer

Show Notes

Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2023 that is held in Berlin every year.

Today, Richard has two guests joining him. He meets up with Smera Goel who was featured on Episode 3 of our Sustain Open Source Design Podcast. Richard catches up with her and what has been going on the past year and a half. Smera is a Product Designer and an Outreachy Mentor for Fedora. She is also the Mentor Project Representative for Fedora, in charge of looking after the participation of Fedora in different mentorship programs such as Outreachy and Google Summer of Code. Smera works for a startup in Berlin that has some open-source offerings, and she got her job from an open-source design job board. Richard and Smera discuss mentoring mentors and mentees in the context of software sustainability.

Richard’s next guest is Dotan Horovits, who’s the Principal Developer Advocate at Logz.io. and he tells us about his own podcast called "OpenObservability Talks." He explains the dominance of closed-source vendors in the observability space, which has led to a siloed and vendor-locked situation. They also discuss how observability is important for cloud-based web applications and large production systems and how open-source projects should have an open door to the CNCF and how collaborations between different foundations can be beneficial. Download this episode to hear more!

Links

SustainOSS
SustainOSS Twitter
SustainOSS Discourse
[email protected]
Richard Littauer Twitter
FOSS Backstage 2023
Smera Goel Website
Smera Goel LinkedIn
Fedora
Sustain Open Source Design Podcast-Episode 3-Smera Goel on Designing in the Fedora Project, Outreachy, and India
Dotan Horovits LinkedIn
Dotan Horovits Twitter
OpenObservability Talks Podcast
Logz.io
OpenObservability Talks on the podcast apps
OpenObservability Talks on YouTube (videocast)
Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron?
Open Source for Better Observability

Credits

Produced by Richard Littauer
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound

Special Guests: Dotan Horovits and Smera Goel.

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