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SustainEpisode 266: Sustain OSS Virtual Event: Recap!Guests
Eriol Fox | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Leslie Hawthorn | Abby Cabunoc Mayes
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
In this special episode of Sustain, Richard has a discussion with guests and fellow hosts Eriol Fox, Abby Cabunoc Mayes,
Leslie Hawthorne, and Gunner, about the recent virtual Sustain event discussing the current state and
future of sustaining open source software. The conversation covers a broad range of topics, from the impact
of AI on open source and the complexity of corporate funding, to the importance of succession planning and
...2025-04-1822 min
SustainEpisode 100: Sustain #100: Only Hosts, on who we are, where we came from, and where we're goingGuest
Paul Bahr | DeAnn Bahr
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Eriol Fox | Ben Nichols
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Cue the horns and balloons folks because today’s episode is extremely special. We are celebrating our 100th episode!! Can you believe it? We are so fortunate to have everyone with us, including our editors, as our conversations takes us back to the origins of this podcast and how it...2021-12-0337 min
SustainEpisode 89: Leslie Hawthorn, OSPOs, Digital Sovereignty, and Cultivating Open Source CommunitiesGuest
Leslie Hawthorn
Panelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Eriol Fox | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We have an excellent guest on today and she is here to talk about real stuff! Our guest is Leslie Hawthorn, who is the Manager for the Vertical Community Strategy in Red Hat’s Open Source Programs Office in the Office of the CTO. She has spent her career creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities an...2021-08-2740 min
SustainEpisode 60: Erik Rasmussen on the hard work of maintaining, marketing, and funding open source librariesPanelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Erik Rasmussen
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Erik Rasmussen, who’s the creator of Redux Form and Final Form, two of the most popular form state management libraries in the React ecosystem, which we will learn more about. Erik talks about his blog post on, “Open Source Sustainability,” which he wrote out of frustration. He has such a passion and positive attitude for open source, but there are things that bother him as...2020-11-0630 min
SustainEpisode 57: Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for LifePanelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Mikeal Rogers
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Mikeal Rogers, who works at Protocol Labs as IPLD Lead. We learn what Protocol Labs is, where they come from, and what Mikeal does there as the IPLD Lead (InterPlanetary Linked Data). We will find out what happened when io.js forked with Node.js, if there is a difference between the Project Manager and Developer Role, and Mikeal’s interests in design libraries, and building a...2020-10-1038 min
SustainEpisode 56: Dominic Tarr on Coding What You Want, Living On A Boat, and the Early Days of Node.jsPanelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Dominic Tarr
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Dominic Tarr, an open source sailor hacker person, calling from his boat in New Zealand. He’s been instrumental in the early JavaScript scene. Dominic tells us how he got into open source, coding, and how he got involved in JavaScript and Event Stream. We will also learn what Dominic is doing now and how does he envision open source going forward. How does Do...2020-10-0228 min
SustainEpisode 51: Working in Public: Nadia Eghbal and her new book about Making and Sustaining Open Source Software
Sponsored by:
Panelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Nadia Eghbal
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have special guest. Nadia Eghbal, a writer and researcher, works for Substack, and has a new book out which we will be talking about today! We discuss Nadia’s book, what it’s all about, why she wrote it, and why Eric refers to it as the “Open Source Bible.” She also talks about the report she did called, “Roads and Bridge...2020-08-2843 min
SustainEpisode 45: The Meaning of 'Tyranny of Openness' with Nathan Schneider
Sponsored by Linode
Panelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer
Guest
Nathan Schneider
University of Colorado Boulder
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have special guest, Nathan Schneider, a Professor of Media Studies at CU Boulder. He also runs a new little outfit called Media Enterprise Design Lab. In today’s episode, Nathan will tell us what he does, how he got to where he is today, and he explains what he me...2020-07-1737 min
SustainEpisode 44: Crossing The Chasm with Tobie Langel
Sponsored by Linode
Panelists
Allen "Gunner" Gunn | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer
Guest
Tobie Langel
Show Notes
Welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Tobie Langel, the Founder of UnlockOpen, from Geneva, Switzerland. Tobie tells us all about UnlockOpen and what he does there. He tells us how he focuses on convincing companies that they need to contribute back to Open Source. Other topics we will talk about are DevOps culture, prototype JavaScript framework not being updated since 2015, wh...2020-07-1040 min
SustainEpisode 35: Why The Drupal Community Cares with Rachel Lawson
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Richard Littauer
Guest
Rachel Lawson
Drupal Association
Show Notes
In this episode, we have Rachel Lawson, from the U.K., who is the Community Liaison for Drupal Association. She is going to tell you all about the Drupal Association, what role she plays, and what she does. Since DrupalCon has been canceled due to COVID-19, there are some major things going on with sponsors that are still contributing money, the founder of Drupal maki...2020-05-0837 min
SustainEpisode 29: How License Zero Works with Kyle Mitchell
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Allen “Gunner” Gunn
Guest
Kyle E. Mitchell
Attorney, License Zero
Show Notes
Kyle E. Mitchell is an independent Attorney based in California. Today we talk to him about Open Source subjects such as “License Zero.” He delves into the types of licenses there are, what are their differences, and how they came about. Also, be sure to check out this week’s spotlights for ways to help out during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 o...2020-03-2747 min
SustainEpisode 24: Securing the FOSS Ecosystem with Gareth Rushgrove
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn
Guest
Gareth Rushgrove
Snyk
Show Notes
In this episode, we talk with Gareth Rushgrove, from Cambridge, UK, Director of Project Management at a security software startup called Snyk. He has spoken at a number of international technology conferences over the past few years, including FOSDEM, RAMP, BACON, QCon, PuppetConf, Monitorama, GOTO and Velocity. Security and Open Source don’t often go together, in this episode we explore the topic and more.
...2020-02-1443 min
SustainEpisode 23: Why Companies Should Invest Money in Open Source with Josh Simmons
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn
Guest
Josh Simmons
Salesforce | Open Source Initiative
Show Notes
In this episode we talk with Josh Simmons, Senior Open Source Strategist at Salesforce Engineering. He is a community strategist, open source advocate, and dusty- foot philosopher. He also serves as Vice President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
4:10 Josh talks about how he started in Open Source and his background.
7:27 Josh explains why companies/peop...2020-02-0753 min
SustainEpisode 21: How Playing Minecraft Opened a Door to the Open Source World with Justin W. Flory
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Eric Berry | Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn
Guest
Justin W. Flory
Rochester Institute of Technology
Show Notes
In this episode we talk with Justin Flory, quite possibly the future of Open Source Sustainability. Justin fell into the Open Source world as a 15-year-old out of necessity while trying to build and maintain his Minecraft server. Justin currently attends the Rochester Institute of Technology, currently the only institute of higher learning offering a Free and Open Source Software and...2020-01-1738 min
SustainEpisode 19: Recovering Software Engineer to a Believer in Open Source with GunnerSummary
Allen Gunn aka Gunner self-identifies as a recovering software engineer and CTO. After the dot-com bubble popped circa 2000 he founded a non-profit called Aspiration which is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization. For those lucky enough to have attended an event Gunner has facilitated will know, he has the gift of gab. He was so good on this episode that we asked him to become a permanent host/panelist and he said YES!
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer | Eric Berry
Guest
Allen Gunn (Gunner) of Aspiration
2020-01-0648 min
Changelog InterviewsBONUS – Sustain Summit 2018In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional “unconferences.”
Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year’s event should be even better. Join us!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast...2018-10-1532 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceBONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Interview)In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional “unconferences.”
Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year’s event should be even better. Join us!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast...2018-10-1532 min
Method To The MadnessAllen GunnInterview with Executive Director of Aspiration Tech which helps nonprofits use technologyTRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:You're listening to k a Alex Berkeley 90.7 FM, university of California listener supported radio. And this is method to the madness coming at you from the Public Affairs Department here at Calyx celebrating the innovative spirit of the bay area. I'm your host aliene czar. And today we have Alan Gunn joining us, the executive director of aspiration tech. What's up? Got Her. How you doing? I am well thank you. Thanks for coming to the studio today. Um...2015-03-1330 min