Latest Open source contributor Podcast Episodes

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Episode 238: Julia Evans and Wizard Zines

Sustain - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Julia Evans Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer and co-host Amanda Casari talk to Julia Evans, a zine artist and programmer from Montreal. The discussion delves into Julia's journey in creating educational zines about techn...

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Episode 237: OSS for Climate Podcast Crossover: Max Jones on Carbon Plan

Sustain - June 14, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Max Jones Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this first ever cross-over episode of Sustain and Open Source for Climate, host Richard welcomes guest Max Jones, a data scientist and open source software developer who works at Carbon Plan. Max discusses the importance of open source in b...

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Episode 236: Eva Maxfield Brown & Boris Veytsman on OSS Dependencies in the Sciences

Sustain - June 07, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guests Eva Maxfield Brown | Boris Veytsman Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer engages with guests Eva Maxfield Brown and Boris Veytsman to explore their co-authored paper, "Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes." Th...

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Episode 235: The State of Open Infrastructure 2024, from IOI with Emmy Tsang

Sustain - May 31, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Emmy Tsang Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer welcomes Emmy Tsang, the Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). Emmy introduces the mission of IOI, which focuses on increasing investment in and adoption of open infrastructur...

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Episode 234: Simon Vansintjan on Mirlo

Sustain - May 24, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Simon Vansintjan Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer and guest Simon Vansintjan dive into the topic of open-source sustainability in the music industry. Simon, a long-time friend of Richard and a seasoned coder and designer, introduces Mirlo, an innov...

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Episode 233: Dr. Carlotta A. Berry on Diversity in STEM

Sustain - May 17, 2024 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Dr. Carlotta A. Berry Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer engages in a conversation with Dr. Carlotta Berry, a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a passionate advocate for dive...

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Episode 232: Susan Kennedy on Open Technology Fund (OTF)

Sustain - May 10, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Susan Kennedy Panelists Richard Littauer | Eriol Fox Show Notes In this episode, hosts Richard Littauer and Eriol Fox chat with Susan Kennedy, a program manager at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), to explore the intricacies of sustaining open source technologies. OTF, a nonprofit organizatio...

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Episode 231: OSCA 2023 with Velda Kiara on her Open Source Journey

Sustain - May 03, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Velda Kiara Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Today, host Richard has a conversation with guest Velda Kiara, a passionate open source developer. Velda discusses how open source has helped businesses, how it benefits both coders and non-coders, and how it can lead to career growth. She al...

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Episode 230: Kari L. Jordan on The Carpentries

Sustain - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Kari L. Jordan Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard welcomes guest Dr. Kari L. Jordan, the Executive Director of The Carpentries, to discuss the organization’s mission, challenges, and strategies for fostering an inclusive community that teaches data...

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Episode 229: OSCA 2023 with Stephen Okonkwo on Design and OSCA Festival

Sustain - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Stephen Okonkwo Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, the OSCA 2023 series, host Richard welcomes Steve Okonkwo, a multidisciplinary designer who actively contributes to the Open Source Community Africa (OSCA). Steve sheds light on his role in enhancing user exper...

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Episode 228: Yani Bellini Saibene on better scientific coding communities

Sustain - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Yani Bellini Saibene Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard welcomes guest Yani Bellini Saibene from Argentina. Yani, with a rich background in open source community management, shares her journey into the tech and open source world, and highlights he...

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Episode 227: OSCA 2023 with Adewale “Ace” Abati on Made. In. Nigeria.

Sustain - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Adewale “Ace” Abati Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer sits down with Adewale “Ace” Abati, a staff developer advocate at TBD and member of the Open Source Community Africa. Today, they discuss Ace’s work in building a decentralized future of the web...

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Episode 226: Jacob Kaplan-Moss on Compensating Open Source Maintainers (but not that way)

Sustain - March 29, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Jacob Kaplan-Moss Panelist Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari Show Notes This episode of Sustain explores the challenges and dynamics of funding open source projects. Host Richard Littauer and co-host Amanda Casari welcome guest Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Board Member and Treasurer of the Django Soft...

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Episode 225: OSCA 2023 with Subomi Oluwalana on Convoy

Sustain - March 22, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Subomi Oluwalana Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes On today’s episode, Richard engages in a conversation with Subomi Oluwalana, Co-founder and CEO of Convoy, an innovative company specializing in open source Webhooks gateway solutions akin to Kong but focused on Webhooks, with features l...

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Episode 224: Ciarán O’Riordan on the EU's Cyber Resiliency Act

Sustain - March 15, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Ciarán O’Riordan Panelist Richard Littauer | Leslie Hawthorne Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer and co-host Leslie Hawthorne engage with Ciarán O’Riordan, Senior Policy Advisor from Open Forum Europe (OFE), diving into the intricacies of the Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA) and it...

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Episode 223: OSCA 2023 with Mannie William Young on the Python community in Ghana & PyCon Africa

Sustain - March 08, 2024 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Mannie William Young Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard invites guest Mannie Young from Ghana’s Python community to share his experiences in open source development. Mannie discusses his role as the Executive Director of the Python Software Community in Ghana...

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Episode 222: Nathan Schneider on his new book "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life"

Sustain - March 01, 2024 15:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Nathan Schneider Panelist Richard Littauer | Leslie Hawthorne Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard is joined by Leslie Hawthorne, and features a discussion with guest Nathan Schneider, an assistant professor of media studies and the director of the Media Economics Design Lab ...

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Episode 221: Malvika Sharan on the The Turing Way

Sustain - February 23, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Malvika Sharan Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard has a conversation with guest Malvika Sharan, a senior research associate and open source community manager at The Turing Way. Malvika gives fascinating insights into the journey and rationale behind The Turin...

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Episode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie Byron

Sustain - February 16, 2024 15:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Angie Byron Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Richard is in Portland at FOSSY, the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference that is held by the Software Freedom Conservancy. In this episode, we’re joined by Angie Byron, the Director of Community at A...

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Episode 219: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Festival 2023

Sustain - February 09, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Bolaji Ayodeji Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard has a conversation with and guest, Bolaji Ayodeji, Software Engineer, Content Creator, Community Engineer, and an organizer of the OSCA (Open Source Community Africa), the biggest open source conference in Afr...

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Episode 218: Karthik Ram & James Howison on Research Software Visibility Infrastructure Priorities

Sustain - February 02, 2024 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guests Karthik Ram | James Howison Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this captivating episode of Sustain, host Richard welcomes returning guest, Karthik Ram, Senior Research Scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and his colleague James Howison, an Associate Professor from th...

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Episode 217: Heather Meeker on her latest book, "From Project to Profit: How to Succeed in Commercial Open Source"

Sustain - January 26, 2024 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Heather Meeker Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard Littauer welcomes renowned author and open source lawyer, Heather Meeker, in our first venture into video format. Heather discusses her journey from being a ‘big law’ lawyer to focusing specifically on open s...

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Episode 216: Mohammed Shah on TOS Violations for Open Source Projects

Sustain - January 19, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Mohammed Shah Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard engages in a conversation with guest Mohammed Shah about open source sustainability and the significant challenges faced by open source maintainers. Mohammed shares his background as a full-stack developer and...

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Episode 215: Joe Castle on Code.gov

Sustain - January 12, 2024 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Joseph Castle Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, Richard welcomes Joe Castle, Executive Advisor for Strategic Partnerships and Technology at SAS, and he was previously featured on an episode in the FOSSY 2023 series podcasts. Today, they engage in conversations about vari...

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Episode 214: Dr. Laura Dornheim on Munich's open source journey

Sustain - January 05, 2024 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Dr. Laura Dornheim Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes On today’s episode of Sustain, Richard welcomes Dr. Laura Dornheim, the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the city of Munich, who discusses her coding background, role as the CDO, and Munich’s digital initiatives. The conversation dives ...

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Episode 213: Chad Whitacre on Sponsoring $500,000 to Open Source

Sustain - December 22, 2023 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Chad Whitacre Panelists Richard Littauer | Abby Cabunoc Mayes | Leslie Hawthorne | Justin Dorfman YouTube For this episode, we also recorded video! You can watch here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b3guhtE8-0). Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer is joined co-ho...

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Episode 212: Carlos Martinez-Ortiz & Shoaib Sufi on WoSSS (Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability)

Sustain - December 15, 2023 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guests Carlos Martinez-Ortiz | Shoaib Sufi Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, Richards welcomes his two guests, Carlos Martinez, Scientific Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience center, and Shoaib Sufi, Community Lead at the Software Sustainability Institute. They both ...

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Episode 211: FOSSY 2023 with Kyle Wiens

Sustain - December 08, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Kyle Wiens Panelist Richard Littaueropen-source Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Richard is in Portland at FOSSY, the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference that is held by the Software Freedom Conservancy. In this exciting episode, Richard welcomes Kyle Wiens, the driving...

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Episode 210: Dr. Bryan Behrenshausen on GitLab

Sustain - December 01, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guest Dr. Bryan G. Behrenshausen Panelist Leslie Hawthorn | Abby Cabunoc Mayes Show Notes In this episode, hosts Leslie Hawthorn from Red Hat and Abby Cabunoc Mayes from GitHub, welcome Dr. Bryan G. Behrenshausen, a Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab. This episode delves deep into the...

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Episode 209: Amanda Casari, Julie Ferraioli & Juniper Lovato and open source ecosystems research

Sustain - November 24, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Guests Amanda Casari | Julie Ferraioli | Juniper Lovato Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In today’s episode of Sustain, Richard is joined by guests, Amanda Casari, devrel engineer and open source researcher at Google Open Source Programs Office, Julie Ferraioli, an independent open source str...