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SustainEpisode 264: Neil Chue Hong on the Software Sustainability InstituteGuest
Neil Chue Hong
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, hosts Richard Littauer and Justin Dorfman talk with Neil Chue Hong, Director of the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI). They discuss the SSI's mission to sustain software used in research, the institute's history and funding, the role of research software engineers, and the newly launched Research Software Maintenance Fund (RSMF) with £4.8 million dedicated to supporting research software. Neil shares insights into the collaboration, training initiatives, and policy work done by the SSI to promote s...2025-03-2139 min
Scrappy ABMEP. 140 - How AssetMule is Changing ABM: Justin Dorfman on Personalization, Landing Pages & Measurable SuccessIn this episode of Scrappy ABM, host Mason Cosby sits down with Justin Dorfman, cofounder and CEO of AssetMule, to discuss how companies can implement cost-effective Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategies. They explore practical playbooks, personalized sales assets, and overcoming common implementation challenges—all without breaking the bank.Best Moments:(00:32) Introduction of Justin Dorfman and AssetMule(01:15) Overview of AssetMule’s pricing and target audience(02:06) Explanation of AssetMule’s features and capabilities(06:26) Common use cases for AssetMule, including ABM landing pages(09:12) Customization options within AssetMule(13...2025-02-0327 min
SustainEpisode 252: Nolan Lawson of PouchDB on what it feels like to be a maintainerGuest
Nolan Lawson
Panelist
Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, Richard, Justin, and Eric revisit an unreleased interview with Nolan Lawson from 2020. They discuss Nolan's experience as a former maintainer of PouchDB, the emotional labor of being an open source maintainer, and the challenges that led him to step away from such high-profile projects. Nolan also shares his thoughts on the impact of reputation-driven development, open source community dynamics, and his journey towards a healthier relationship with open source. The conversation delves...2024-10-1836 min
Go-To-Market LabMastering Asset Creation w. Justin DorfmanAre you struggling to create effective marketing assets that truly resonate with your buyers? In this episode, we dive into the art of personalizing sales assets with Justin Dorfman, CEO of AssetMule. Justin shares his insights on how to bridge the gap between marketing and sales, enhance asset personalization at different stages of your company, and create a more interactive and engaging experience for buyers. If you want to learn how to increase win rates, improve asset engagement, and get practical tips on working with outside agencies, this episode is packed with actionable advice. Tune in to discover how...2024-10-031h 07
SPYCRAFT 101160. How the FBI Sabotaged Soviet Tech Spies with Zach DorfmanToday Justin is joined by Zach Dorfman. Zach is a national security reporter whose work has appeared in Politico, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He received his Bachelor's degree from Skidmore College and a Master's degree in International Relations and Affairs from the University of Chicago. Zach is a former senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He's also the host of the Spy Valley Podcast from Project Brazen, which debuted last year, about a Cold War era spy in the heart of Silicon Valley. This...2024-08-1250 min
The Content Cocktail HourSecrets to Effective Product Marketing and Sales Alignment with Justin Dorfman, AssetMule"Product marketing involves early engagement to understand the customer's needs and priorities, build features that resonate, and ensure effective messaging and positioning for a successful launch and sales," says Justin Dorfman of AssetMule.In this episode of The Content Cocktail Hour, Justin Dorfman, founder and CEO of AssetMule, joins us. With over 15 years in the SaaS world, Justin's unique journey from sales to product marketing to founding his own company offers a wealth of knowledge. We'll explore his innovative approach to sales and marketing alignment, the crucial role of product marketing, and his journey to...2024-08-0127 min
SustainEpisode 213: Chad Whitacre on Sponsoring $500,000 to Open SourceGuest
Chad Whitacre
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Abby Cabunoc Mayes | Leslie Hawthorne | Justin Dorfman
YouTube
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Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer is joined co-hosts Abby, Leslie, and Justin to talk with special guest, Chad Whitacre, co-founder of SustainOSS and Sentry’s Head of Open Source. Today, Chad sheds light on Sentry’s contributions in open source funding programs, the challenges, successes, and plans for progression. Chad also introduces FOSS Funder, a plat...2023-12-2238 min
Product Marketing LifeMaximizing impact: How to elevate sales enablement value with Justin Dorfman, Co-Founder & CEO at AssetMuleIn this episode of Product Marketing Life, Mark Assini is joined by Justin Dorfman, Co-Founder & CEO of AssetMule. During their chat, Justin shares his thoughts on the difference between good and great enablement and what product marketers can do to build enablement into a function that delivers enough value to warrant its own dedicated resourcing.As a veteran in the tech and SaaS industry, Justin shares his comprehensive journey that spans from a foundational role in sales to an evolution into product marketing, culminating in his current entrepreneurial venture. ...2023-12-0856 min
SustainEpisode 190: Karen M. Sandler on Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)Guest
Karen M. Sandler
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain, hosts Richard and Justin welcome Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Karen shares her journey from engineer to lawyer, and how her personal health condition led her to the world of open source. She discusses her role at SFC, the importance of Copyleft licenses, and the organization's diversity initiative, Outreachy. Karen also shares her personal experience with her defibrillator pacemaker, emphasizing the need for more control over technology. The...2023-07-0738 min
SustainEpisode 183: Nahuai Badiola on WordPress, W3C, and all of tech sustainabilityGuest
Nahuai Badiola
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, Richard and Justin are very excited to have as their guest, Nahuai Badiola, who’s a freelance WordPress developer, part of the WordPress Sustainability Initiative, the W3C Sustainability Working Group, and a recent recipient of a fellowship at The Green Web Foundation. Today’s discussion covers the importance of sustainability in different contexts, including the environmental, social, and economic aspe...2023-06-0934 min
SustainEpisode 171: Chris Baker & Stephen Jacobs on Open@RITGuests
Chris Baker | Stephen Jacobs
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Abby Cabunoc Mayes
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are excited to have as our guests, Chris Baker and Stephen Jacobs, who work at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). Chris is the Assistant Director for the Open@RIT Program Office, and Stephen is a Professor at RIT and the Founder of Open@RIT.
Our conversations today focus on how academia is...2023-04-2840 min
SustainEpisode 161: Aaron Crawfis on Dapr and Sustaining Cloud OSSGuest
Aaron Crawfis
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard and Justin are excited to have as their guest today, Aaron Crawfis, who works in the cloud space as a Senior Product Manager on the Azure Open Source Incubations team, which develops and launches new open source projects to advance the industry of cloud native computing and applications. He’s done a lot of work on Dapr, which is a di...2023-03-2434 min
SustainEpisode 153: Kailash Nadh and the FOSS United FoundationGuest
Kailash Nadh
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We’re super excited to have as our guest today, Kailash Nadh. In 2020, he co-founded the FOSS United Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the FOSS ecosystem in India, where he serves as director. He also has been the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest stock broking firm for the last decade. Today, our conversations with Kailash will take through the FOSS...2023-02-1042 min
SustainEpisode 149: Naytri Sramek on the GitHub Accelerator and M12 GitHub FundGuest
Naytri Sramek
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we’re super excited to have joining us as our guest, Naytri Sramek, who’s the Senior Director of Strategy at GitHub. Have you heard of the GitHub Accelerator and M12 GitHub Fund? Well, this is a great day to be joining us because Naytri is here to talk about these programs that they’ve been launching to help support and su...2022-12-1640 min
SustainEpisode 146: Anjana Vakil on the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Learning to CodeGuest
Anjana Vakil
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
On today’s episode, Richard and Justin have joining them as their guest, Anjana Vakil, who’s a Freelance Developer, Software Engineer, and Developer Advocate doing some amazing stuff in the world. Anjana takes us through her journey into tech that started out at the Recurse Center, which led her to Outreachy, the internship she did as a Software Engineer at Mozilla, which was pivotal in shaping her career, and how diversity scholarships she received helped her as well. She...2022-11-2546 min
SustainEpisode 144: Simon Minton of Ringer on Empowering Individual ContributorsGuest
Simon Minton
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard and Justin are super excited to have as their guest today, Simon Minton, who’s the CEO of Ringer, which we’ll hear all about. Simon tells us how Ringer is different by the ways they provide for their maintainers, how they give back to projects, handle consultancy with projects, and he explains their recruitment process. Simon shares his long-term plan...2022-10-2839 min
SustainEpisode 142: Nicholas Zakas on Sponsoring Dependencies, All The Way DownGuest
Nicholas Zakas
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is a returning guest that we’ve had on before. We are excited to have joining us, Nicholas Zakas, who’s one of the maintainers on ESLint, which is a tool that helps you find and fix problems in your JavaScript code. Today, we’ll learn all about ESLint, the maintainers, contributors, and how they get paid. Also, we’ll...2022-10-1443 min
SustainEpisode 139: Manuel Riel on PikaPods, a container hosting service for open source appsGuest
Manuel Riel
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are super excited to have as our guest, Manuel Riel, joining us from Austria. Manu ran a web development agency and launched multiple open source related products, including an invoice processing tool, and a backup service. He’s also the Co-founder of PikaPods, which is a container hosting service for open source apps. Manu is with us to talk ab...2022-09-2329 min
SustainEpisode 138: Ruth Cheesley, the Mautic Project Lead at Acquia, on Building and Growing Open Source CommunitiesGuest
Ruth Cheesley
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls | Eriol Fox | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are excited to have as our guest, Ruth Cheesley, joining us from the UK. She is an open-source advocate and Project Lead for Mautic at Acquia. We invited Ruth on this podcast because we don’t seem to have enough talks from people who are part of an actual community of coders. Today, Ruth tells us...2022-09-1639 min
SustainEpisode 132: Ana Jiménez Santamaría on OSPOs and the TODO GroupGuest
Ana Jiménez Santamaría
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Ana Jiménez Santamaría, who’s the TODO Group OSPO Program Manager. Our conversations bring us to finding out how Ana got into open source, the history of the TODO Group, and she goes in depth about the OSPO Mind Map Project she’s working on and how you can cont...2022-08-0537 min
SustainEpisode 131: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Community Africa (OSCA)Guest
Bolaji Ayodeji
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, our guest is Bolaji Ayodeji, who’s a Software Engineer, Content Creator, Community Engineer, and currently works as a Developer Advocate at Commerce Layer. Bolaji is a member of the Sustain community and has done so much with Open Source Community Africa (OSCA). Our conversations take us through learning how Bolaji got into open source, being a part of...2022-07-2938 min
SustainEpisode 128: Sustain Hosts: What Does Sustain Mean?Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls | Amanda Casari
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today’s episode is all panelists, no guests, and our conversations are focusing on the question, “What does sustaining open source actually mean?” Each of the panelists share their opinions, give feedback, and tell stories around sustaining open source. We’ll also learn the origins of SustainOSS, the definition of a “sustainer,” and we hear about the OSCA Sustain Community Report 2022 that recently came out and gave...2022-07-0839 min
SustainEpisode 124: Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source ContributionsGuest
Julia Ferraioli
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Julia Ferraioli, who’s an open source human, co-founded Open Source Stories, and has been part of the Sustain community for a while. Our conversations today take us through learning about Julia’s background, what Open Source Stories is, and how she quantifies a black swan open source. We also learn abou...2022-06-1040 min
SustainEpisode 122: A conversation with Stefano Maffulli of the OSIGuest
Stefano Maffulli
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us Stefano Maffulli, who’s the new Executive Director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Our conversations center around Stefano taking us through what OSI can do and we learn more about how it’s changing. He also tells us about the biggest debate that’s happening in the community, a podcast series they are releasing called Deep D...2022-05-2737 min
SustainEpisode 114: Chris Coleman and the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA)Guest
Chris Coleman
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really cool guest joining us, Chris Coleman, who is the Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and Director of The Clinic for Open Source Arts at the University of Denver. Chris takes us through his journey of creating The Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA), what they’re focused on, and some cool projects they are working with. He...2022-03-2533 min
SustainEpisode 113: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift on the MLH Fellowship programGuest
Jon Gottfried | Mike Swift
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We have two amazing guests joining us, Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift, who are the Co-Founders of Major League Hacking (MLH). Today, we’ll learn about the MLH Fellowship program, the philosophy behind MLH, which every year, more than 100,000 developers from around the world attend these events to learn new technical skills by getting hands-on experience. Jon an...2022-03-1847 min
SustainEpisode 108: Sarah Gran and Josh Aas: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure with Memory Safe CodeGuest
Sarah Gran | Josh Aas
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are super excited to have two guests today, Sarah Gran and Josh Aas, who both work for ISRG, the Internet Security Research Group which consists of three projects: Let’s Encrypt, Divvi Up, and Prossimo. Sarah is a VP of Communication and fundraising for ISRG, and Josh is the Executive Director at ISRG. They are both working on Pr...2022-02-1142 min
SustainEpisode 106: Rodrigo Mendoza on Quine and GitNFTGuest
Rodrigo Mendoza
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nichols | Eric Berry
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really awesome guest to talk about some really cool stuff. Rodrigo Mendoza is the Founder and CEO of Quine, a data-driven professional network for software creators, as well as GitNFT, an NFT minting platform for GitHub commits. Rodrigo dives deep in Quine and tells us why he’s focusing on open source and so...2022-01-2836 min
SustainEpisode 104: Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover on Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor FundGuest
Duane O’Brien | Mandy Grover
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nichols
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On today’s episode we have two excellent guests, Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover. Duane is the Head of Open Source at Indeed and Mandy is a Technical Content Architect III, as well as manages a team within the Technical Content organization at Indeed. They are here to talk about the FOSS Fund and the recent...2022-01-1440 min
SustainEpisode 103: Samuel Wein on OpenMS and Mass SpectrometryGuest
Samuel Wein
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On today’s episode, we are very excited to have as our guest, Samuel Wein, who is a core developer and Executive Chairman of the OpenMS Foundation, a Post Doc at University of Tuebingen in Germany, and the head of a software consultancy specializing in analysis of RNA using Mass Spectrometry. Samuel fills us in on OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry and ho...2022-01-0729 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 96: Chad Whitacre and how Sentry is giving $150k to their OSS DependenciesGuest
Chad Whitacre
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have the fabulous Chad Whitacre, who was one of the Sustain conference organizers in the first year and is currently a Senior Software Engineer on the Open Source team at Sentry, where he helps Sentry’s engineers and users collaborate to make Sentry even better than it already is. He is also the Founder of Gratipay, also kn...2021-10-2137 min
SustainEpisode 95: Marko Saric of Plausible Analytics, the most popular Open Source analytics platformGuest
Marko Saric
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We hope you are as excited as we are to have as our guest today Marko Saric, who is the Co-Founder of Plausible Analytics, which is an open source and privacy friendly alternative to Google Analytics. If you’ve never heard about Plausible Analytics, then this is your episode to learn all about it. With over 4,000 subscribers in the pa...2021-10-1843 min
SustainEpisode 93: Dan Lorenc and OSS Supply Chain Security at GoogleGuest
Dan Lorenc
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a very special guest, Dan Lorenc, who is a Staff Software Engineer and the lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team. Dan founded projects like Minikube, Skaffold, TektonCD, and Sigstore. He blogs regularly about supply chain security and serves on the TAC for the Open SSF. Dan fill us in on how Docker fits into wh...2021-10-0136 min
SustainEpisode 92: Niels ten Oever on Human Rights, Open Source, and Digital InfrastructureGuest
Niels ten Oever
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is Niels ten Oever, who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and recently published a really interesting report from the Ford Foundation on “Human Rights Are Not A Bug: Upgrading Governance for an Equitable Internet,” which we will learn more about. Today, Niels shares his thoughts on what the internet is, what huma...2021-09-2441 min
SustainEpisode 91: Brazil JavaMan Souza on Open Source and the history of JavaGuest
Bruno Souza
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. If you’re looking to learn more about Java, this is the episode you really need to listen to. Today, our guest is Bruno Souza, a Brazillian Java programmer and a member of the OSI. Bruno is the Founder of SouJava, a Brazillian Java User Group which became the world’s largest, he was involved with some of the earliest JVM’s, and...2021-09-1738 min
SustainEpisode 90: Logan Kilpatrick and the Julia communityGuest
Logan Kilpatrick
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited to have as our guest, Logan Kilpatrick, who is the Community Manager for the Julia Programming Language, a graduate student studying Software Engineering and Technology Law, and makes an exclusive announcement of another position he recently has taken on. Today, we are talking to Logan about the Julia Programming Language. We learn more about the role Major...2021-09-1033 min
How We SolveHow to Help Employees Take Better Care of Their Mental Health in the Workplace with Justin DorfmanJustin Dorfman is Reblaze's Open Source Program Manager. He is also a bipolar who takes his time, sharing his experience on how he dealt with his mental health problems and succeed in his career. Professionally he is responsible for fostering the adoption of their project Curiefense in the cloud-native space. He also led similar initiatives for Gitcoin, Sticker Mule, & MaxCDN. Justin has contributed to Bootstrap, Font Awesome, jQuery, Nginx, GNU Bash, and many more. He also serves on the Selection Committee for Mozilla's Open Source Support (MOSS) program, as well as the Open Source Collective's board of directors. In 2017...2021-09-0625 min
SustainEpisode 87: Ewa Jodlowska, Jackie Augustine, and how the PSF managed PyCon during COVIDGuest
Ewa Jodlowska
Jackie Augustine
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are super excited to have two guests with us, Ewa Jodlowska, who is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation and has been with the PSF since 2012. We also have Jackie Augustine, who is the Director of Events at the Python Software Foundation and she joined the PSF in 2018 to assist in the...2021-07-3033 min
SustainEpisode 84: Jono Bacon on Building Sustainable CommunitiesGuest
Jono Bacon
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have as our special guest, Jono Bacon, a self-employed Community and Collaboration Consultant, author, speaker, and Founder of Jono Bacon Consulting. Jono tells us about his interesting journey with his career, the diversity of his clients, a concern he has with chat channels, and why community is the most important thing in open source. He talks about developers and...2021-07-0939 min
SustainEpisode 83: Dominic Nguyen on Chromatic, Storybook.js, and building self-sustaining OSS projectsGuest
Dominic Nguyen
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited about our guest today, Dominic Nguyen, founder of Chromatic, the company behind Storybook.js. Storybook.js is an open source tool for building UI components and pages in isolation. On this episode, Dominic fills us in on Chromatic, how Storybook evolved, the story behind Meteor, which is the first full-stack JavaScript framework, and who their...2021-07-0237 min
SustainEpisode 82: Steve Helvie and the Open Compute ProjectGuest
Steve Helvie
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is exceptional in many ways, so you don’t want to miss this episode! On this episode, we have Steve Helvie, VP of Channel Development for the Open Compute Project (OCP). He helps to educate organizations on the benefits of open hardware designs and the value of “community-driven” engineering for the data center. Today, Steve tells us how...2021-06-2540 min
SustainEpisode 80: Emma Irwin and the FOSS Fund ProgramGuest
Emma Irwin
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! We are so excited to have on this episode as our guest, Emma Irwin. She is a Senior Project Manager in the Open Source Program Office at Microsoft. Today, we learn what Emma does at Microsoft OSPO, how she runs the FOSS Fund Program inside Microsoft, and she tells us about an article she wrote on Mozilla last year about safety. We also dive into the recent news of Richard Stallman returning...2021-06-1429 min
SustainEpisode 79: Leah Silen on how NumFocus helps makes scientific code more sustainableGuest
Leah Silen
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, our special guest is Leah Silen, who is the Executive Director of NumFOCUS. She has been the primary driver behind the organization and execution of its programs including fiscal sponsorship, the PyData event series, and DEI initiatives.
We learn what NumFOCUS does, how it works in terms of scientific research, who provides the funding, and the diversity, equity, and inclusion support that NumFOCUS provides projects. Leah talks...2021-06-0435 min
SustainEpisode 78: Stormy Peters: Sustaining FLOSS at Microsoft's Open Source Programs OfficeGuest
Stormy Peters
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our amazing guest today is Stormy Peters, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft and long-time advocate of free and open source software. Stormy tells us how she started her journey into open source and how she got involved with the OSPO at Microsoft. We find out about the impact of Duane O’Brien’s FOSS Fund, what Stormy is doing at Microsoft to help other nonfinancial ways of supporting comm...2021-05-2234 min
SustainEpisode 77: Jordan Harband: Being a Sustainable Maintainer of Hundreds of ProjectsGuest
Jordan Harband
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! We are all very excited to have as our guest today, Jordan Harband, referred to as “Mr. Perfect” by the panelists! He is a longtime open source enthusiast, maintainer, coder, works at Coinbase, a TC39 Delegate, and heavily involved with Node for years. Today, Jordan gives us his perspective of being a maintainer of repositories and code. We find out how he is so successful at being a maintainer of so m...2021-05-1441 min
SustainEpisode 75: Deb Nicholson on the OSI, the future of open source, and SeaGLGuest
Deb Nicholson
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we are incredibly privileged to have as our guest, Deb Nicholson, who is Interim General Manager and Interim Executive Director at the Open Source Initiative, as well as a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference (SeaGL). Deb tells us how she founded SeaGL and what she did in legislature before open source. We learn about a blog post that Elastic wrote, how Deb feels about it, and...2021-04-2333 min
SustainEpisode 74: Jory Burson of OpenJS on building sustainable open source communitiesGuest
Jory Burson
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode our special guest is Jory Burson, who is celebrating her birthday with us today! She is the Community Director of OpenJS Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation dedicated to serving the open source JavaScript ecosystem. Today, we will learn all about what Jory does as the Community Director at OpenJS, what the OpenJS Foundation is, why it was formed, and what it formed to do. Also, Jory tells us...2021-04-1033 min
SustainEpisode 73: Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran on using Bounties for Open Source SoftwareGuest
Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have two guests joining us, Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis, the founders of Rysolv, a crowdfunding platform for open source development. They tell us all about Rysolv and what their motivation was behind starting this company. Find out what types of people respond to bug bounties and what sort of incentives are given to the developers to stick around. We find out if...2021-04-0237 min
SustainEpisode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and SustainGuest
Eriol Fox
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we welcome regular Sustainer Eriol Fox, the Head of Design at Open Food Network, who is working on a fully funded PhD at Newcastle University, and also one of the hosts of Sustained Open Source Design Podcast. What is a design, and how does design fit into open source? Eriol tells us their thoughts on programming and one important thing you need as a user experience designer. Find out...2021-03-2241 min
SustainEpisode 70: Avi Press and ScarfGuest
Avi Press
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our guest today is Avi Press, Founder and CEO of Scarf.
We learn all about what Scarf is, why it’s called Scarf, and how it works. We also find out how Avi convinced investors to get on board with him and how Scarf is helping open source software developers use data effectively. Find out if there will be any cost for maintainers to join and about the newest product ca...2021-03-0534 min
SustainEpisode 66: Eric Holscher of Read The Docs, Write The Docs, and Ethical AdsPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Guest
Eric Holscher
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, our special guest is Eric Holscher, cofounder of Read the Docs and Write the Docs. As part of his work with Read the Docs, he created a privacy-focused ad network called EthicalAds. Eric will tell us all about Read the Docs, Write the Docs, how EthicalAds started, and why the Ads work. We also discuss challenges since EthicalAds launched, how things have worked with ethical advertising in...2021-02-0537 min
SustainEpisode 64: Travis Oliphant and Russell Pekrul on NumPy, Anaconda, and giving back with FairOSSPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer
Guest
Travis Oliphant | Russell Pekrul
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have two guests from OpenTeams in Austin, Travis Oliphant and Russell Pekrul. Travis is the CEO and Russell is the Program Manager and the Founder and Director of FairOSS. We learn all about what OpenTeams and FairOSS are and how they work. Also, Travis tells us about the non-profit he started called NumFOCUS. Other topics discussed are dependencies and how their values are assigned, NumPy and...2021-01-0939 min
SustainEpisode 63: Tobias Augspurger on ProtonTypes, LibreSelery, and Environmentally Sustainable Open SourcePanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Tobias Augspurger
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Tobias Augspurger, founder of Protontypes. Today, we learn all about Protontypes and LibreSelery. We will also talk about his sustainable awesome-list. We cover the robotics industry, and how open source has influenced it. We cover other sustainability projects, like FarmBot, which blend together community and open source. Tobias tells us other projects he’s interested in doing with ProntonTypes. Download this episode now to find out!
...2020-12-1135 min
SustainEpisode 61: Melissa Logan on Marketing Open Source Effectively and SustainablyPanelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Melissa Logan
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Melissa Logan, Founder of Constantia.io, a marketing consultancy that focuses on open source and enterprise tech companies. She pioneered the role of open source marketer that helped fuel the rise of open source software development. She also launched the Sexism Field Guide to help people identify and confront all forms of sexism. We will learn why Melissa created Constantia, her work at The Linux Foundation, Apache Cassandra, and...2020-11-1837 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 59: Jenn Schiffer on Satire, Coding, Why Teaching OSS Is Super ImportantPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Jenn Schiffer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Jenn Schiffer, Director of Community at Glitch. Today, we will learn all about how cool Glitch really is and it’s free!
Also, they are one of the first platforms that let you view source of server-side code. Jenn tells us her internet humor variety show called “Hoobastank2 on Twitch, why she started her satire blog post on Medium when she entered the tech industry, how...2020-11-0339 min
SustainEpisode 58: Joel Wasserman on Flossbank and Sustainably Giving Back to DependenciesPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Joel Wasserman
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Joel Wasserman, an Engineer at Google and Founder of Flossbank. If you’ve never heard of Flossbank, this is the episode you want to listen to. We learn all about what it is, how the method works, what makes it different from other donation models out there, and how signing up and donating works. We also find out if Joel has advertisers lined up and what the cu...2020-10-1633 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 53: What the Fork? Shurui Zou on Forking in Open Source
Sponsored by:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Shurui Zhou
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Shurui Zhou, who is going to be teaching soon at University of Toronto in the Fall, and she’s been working on Forks on GitHub. Our topic today is Social vs. Hard Forks. We will learn all about the difference between the Social and Hard forks, Shurui’s GitHub Bot she wrote, and her paper she wrote on “Identifying Features...2020-09-1132 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 50: Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source
Sponsored by:
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Kevin Owocki
Gitcoin
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have special guest, Kevin Owocki, founder of Gitcoin. We find out what Gitcoin does and what’s changed with it in the past couple of years. Some other topics we discuss are Quadratic Funding (QF), a hot new thing called DeFi, Ethereum, Blockchain, and Downtown Stimulus in Boulder, CO. Download this episode now to find out this and much more!...2020-08-2142 min
SustainEpisode 49: What OpenUK Does with Amanda Brock & Andrew KatzPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Amanda Brock
OpenUK
Andrew Katz
Orcro
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have two special guests from the UK, Amanda Brock and Andrew Katz. Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open” and OpenUK. Andrew is a lawyer working for a small boutique consulting firm that does open source things. We are discussing contact tracing apps and how they are going. We will find out how Amanda built her team when she was at C...2020-08-1450 min
SustainEpisode 48: Security and Cryptography with Nadim KobeissiHello and welcome to Sustain! On today's episode, we have special guest, Nadim Kobeissi, who runs a small company in Paris called Symbolic Software. We are going to find out how Nadim got into doing security and cryptography and all about his new project called Verifpal. We will also learn more about PEPP-PT effort, RustTLS's code, Cure53, and we discuss the effectiveness of the Code of Conduct. Download this episode to find out all this and much more!
[00:00:45] Nadim tells us what Symbolic Software does and how he got into doing security and cryptography. He also tells...2020-08-0747 min
SustainEpisode 47: People and Relationships with Matt AsayHello and welcome to Sustain! On today's episode, we have special guest, Matt Asay, Cloud and open source executive with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Matt tells us how his office is different from the Open Source program office. We will learn all about his career and his HTML5 start-up Strobe that was acquired by Facebook. Also, Matt talks about some interesting things he's learned from interviewing project maintainers and it has to do with the importance of being nice, kind, and welcoming.
Download this episode now for some great inspiration and advice.
[00:00:58] Matt tells us...2020-07-3141 min
SustainEpisode 46: Commercial Open Source with Joseph JacksPanelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Joseph Jacks
Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Joseph Jacks, Founder of OSS Capital and also works on Open Core Summit, which is a conference he founded as well. Today we discuss with Joseph what he does at OSS Capital, the companies they invest in and how he helps commercial Open Source Companies. We will also find out about what he did at Open Co...2020-07-2441 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 43: Investing in Open Infrastructure with Kaitlin Thaney
Sponsored by Linode
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer
Guest
Kaitlin Thaney
Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have Kaitlin Thaney, who is the Executive Director for Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). Kaitlin will tell us all about IOI and what she’s doing there. She also explains the history of the Mozilla Science Lab and how her team came up with it. How has COVID impacted the organization, especially since he...2020-07-0340 min
SustainEpisode 42: Open Sourcing COVID-19 Data with Cindy Wang & Gil Yehuda
Sponsored By Linode
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer
Guest
Cindy Wang
Sr. Director, Product Management, Yahoo Knowledge Graph
Verizon Media
Gil Yehuda
Sr. Director of Open Source
Verizon Media
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have special guests, Gil Yehuda and Cindy Wang, who both work for Verizon Media, which is a combination of a bunch of companies, predominantly Yahoo and AOL. Gil is Senior Director, Open Source Program and...2020-06-2646 min
SustainEpisode 41: The Donut Diet, Commitments, and More Awesomeness with Dave Gandy
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Dave Gandy
Font Awesome
Show Notes
Producer's note: When the show "ends," we are still recording while we all say goodbye. This time our goodbye turned into a great conversation with Dave after we finished recording Episode 33. With Font Awesome 6 coming out soon, we thought, why not celebrate by taking that extra tape and make an extension/bonus/part-2 episode? We hope you enjoy it! 🍩
Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this epi...2020-06-1915 min
SustainEpisode 40: How Open Source Maintainers Don't Get Rich with Bogdan Vasilescu
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer
Guest
Bogdan Vasilescu
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have Bogdan Vasilescu, who is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. We start out by learning what Bogdan builds at the STRUDEL Lab. Then we discuss, “The GHTorrent project.” We also learn about the research that he and his group at CMU have been doing on open source sustainability. There are a few papers on topics related to s...2020-06-1245 min
SustainEpisode 39: How $2 Million Dollars Helped Build CROSS with Dr. Carlos Maltzahn
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Dr. Carlos Maltzahn
Show Notes
💬 Discuss this episode
Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have a really interesting guest, Dr. Carlos Maltzahn, who’s a Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz. He teaches Computer Science and Engineering and specializes in storage systems. Carlos is going to teach us all about his project CROSS (Center for Research in Open Source Software). He will tell us how they get projects, how t...2020-06-0535 min
SustainEpisode 38: Working Group Updates with Justin & Javi
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guests
Justin Flory
RIT
Javier “Javi” Canovas
Open University of Catalonia
Show Notes
This is a special episode where we are talking about the working groups that came out of the Sustain Summit in Brussels back in January. Today, we have Justin Flory, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology and Javier “Javi” Canovas, from Barcelona, an Assistant Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, who are very involved in the Sustain Working...2020-05-2942 min
SustainEpisode 37: An Open Source History Lesson & More with Patrick Masson
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Patrick Masson
Open Source Initiative
Show Notes
In this episode, we have Patrick Masson, who is the General Manager and Board Director of OSI (Open Source Initiative). Patrick gives some very interesting “nerd history” on Open Source Software. Did you know that you can find Open Source Intelligence as a reference to World War 2? Listen here to find out more interesting things about OSI.
[00:01:33] We start off with...2020-05-2245 min
SustainEpisode 36: The Open Source Movement Shift with María Cruz
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Maria Cruz
Google Open Source
Show Notes
In this episode, we have Maria Cruz, Open Source Program Manager at Google. Maria talks about doing community engagements for Cloud Native projects and other things she does at Google. The panelists are curious about how the Open Source movement shifted since COVID-19 took over the world. Also, Maria gives great advice to people who are aspiring to be Program Managers in OSPO (Open Source Program Office...2020-05-1530 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 34: Staying Hum-Babel with Henry Zhu
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer
Guest
Henry Zhu
Babel
Show Notes
[00:01:30] Henry explains how he got involved in Babel and how it’s funded.
[00:03:18] Eric wonders if Henry wishes he could just step away and just cut ties with it and go do something completely different and how tight is he with this project. He gives a great answer to this!
[00:04:39] Pia was wondering if Henry’s relationship with the project itself or h...2020-05-0137 min
SustainEpisode 33: Getting Money for Awesome Icons with Dave Gandy
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer
Guest
Dave Gandy
Font Awesome Founder | CEO Fonticons, Inc.
Show Notes
If you’ve never heard of Font Awesome, or even if you have, this episode is worth taking a listen to. Our special guest today is Dave Gandy, who is one of the main people behind Font Awesome. He has some super inspiring advice that we all could use right now with everything going on in the world. On a funny note, wh...2020-04-2442 min
SustainEpisode 32: What FOSS Responders Does with Megan Sanicki & Duane O’Brien
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guests
Megan Sanicki
Open Source Program Office at Google
Duane O’Brien
Head of Open Source at Indeed
Show Notes
This is a continuation of our mini COVID-19 coverage series podcast. Today, we have special guests, Megan Byrd-Sanicki and Duane O’Brien, who are FOSS Responders. We are talking about how does the Open Source Ecosystem deal with this and how do we, as Open Source Developes think about this, and how do m...2020-04-1725 min
SustainEpisode 31: Practicing Self-Empathy with Whitney Hess
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer
Guest
Whitney Hess
Executive Coach
Show Notes
Whitney Hess is the special guest today. She is an Executive Coach, supporting business leaders of various kinds to help them be the best version of themselves. With COVID-19 happening right now it’s affecting everyone. People are stressed, overwhelmed, emotional, anxious, and have a whole rollercoaster of emotions. Remember, we are all human and you are not alone. And, if you’ve never meditated, you will...2020-04-1030 min
SustainEpisode 30: Silver Linings in The FOSS Community
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry
Show Notes
COVID-19 is the main focus today and how it is ripping through the open source ecosystem. Although you may be tired of listening to it, the guys get real and speak from the heart and talk about the affects it is having on people all over the country, especially maintainers and coders. The message here is, “BE KIND TODAY!”
02:37 Justin talks about keeping busy with SustainOSS stuff and he’s been listening to an Audibl...2020-04-0323 min
SustainEpisode 28: What "OpenStreetMap US" is with Maggie Cawley & Alyssa Wright
Sponsored By:
#28 Cover art uses imagery by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Maggie Cawley
OpenStreetMap US
Alyssa Wright
OpenStreetMap US | Open Source Collective
Show Notes
In this episode Justin and Richard talk with Maggie Cawley, Executive Director of the American OpenStreetMap US and Alyssa Wright, current Board Member of OpenStreetMap US. If you’ve never heard of OpenStreetMap US you will learn all about what it is, how you can use it...2020-03-1337 min
SustainEpisode 27: Creating Dracula PRO with Blood, Sweat, and Tears with Zeno Rocha
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry
Guest
Zeno Rocha
Liferay Cloud | Dracula Pro
Show Notes
In this episode we talk with Zeno Rocha. He is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division. He is responsible for crafting the product strategy, shaping the features, and defining the future of DXP Cloud. Zeno also created the popular Dracula theme. We talk about the success of clipboard.js, Dracula theme, and the importance not just creating...2020-03-0645 min
SustainEpisode 26: The Data Behind Open Source is CHAOSS with Georg Link
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman
Guest
Georg Link
Bitergia | CHAOSS
Show Notes
In this episode we talk with Georg Link, an Open Source Strategist. He is Director of Sales for Bitergia and Co-Founder, Governing Board Member of the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project. He’s a native of Germany, but currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska.
04:21 Georg explains how he spent his last five years as he joined the PhD program, how he dove into Open Source, and hi...2020-02-2842 min
SustainEpisode 25: Creating a Support Network for Maintainers with Don Goodman-Wilson
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Don Goodman-Wilson
Maintainerati Foundation
Show Notes
In this episode we talk with Don Goodman-Wilson, from Amsterdam. He’s a philosopher-engineer experienced in developer advocacy, Founder of Katsudon.tech, and Board Member at Maintainerati Foundation.
1:18 Don explains Maintainerati’s mission and brings up a point about how to create a network of support among maintainers.
04:10 Don talks about having no insight in the Japanese open source community and the challenges must face...2020-02-2142 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 22: Teaching the Future Open Source Programmers with Ibiam Chihurumnaya
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
Guest
Ibiam Chihurumnaya
Sugar Labs
Show Notes
00:55 In today’s episode, we have Ibiam Chihurumnaya. He is a developer based in Nigeria. Ibiam works with Sugar Labs where he develops and maintains software for children. Also, as a way of giving back to society, he trains children how to code. So far, they have trained over 800 children. He is here to share with us how he started his programming journey and the wonderful th...2020-01-2440 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 20: The Keys to Open Source Sustainability with Gidi Morris
Sponsored By:
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry
Guest
Gidi (Gideon) Morris
Principal software engineer at Elastic
Show Notes
00:44: The special guest for this episode of Sustain is Gidi (Gideon) Morris. Gidi is the principal software engineer at Elastic and has been in the industry for about two decades now.
03:08: He discusses his worries within not just the open source world, but the entire tech industry. Justin furthers the questions that Gidi raise about the open source world and the various...2020-01-1048 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
SustainEpisode 18: How The Python Software Foundation Works with Ewa JodlowskaPanelists
Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer | Eric Berry
Guest
Ewa Jodlowska
Executive Director at Python Software Foundation
Show Notes
01:20 How Ewa Got Started in Open Source
02:38 Keeping the Python Culture Going
Concentrating on Diversity
03:32 Challenges the PSF is Dealing With
04:10 PyCon
Revenue
Location
07:58 PSF Sponsorship Program
Impact Report
PSF Grants Program
12:05 BDFL Steps Down
Evolution of Python Since
15:25 Where Developers are Going with Python
Web Development and the...2019-12-1339 min
SustainEpisode 17: How Formidable Supports Open Source With Lorenzo Sciandra
Sponsored By:
Summary
Lorenzo Sciandra talks about being an Open Source maintainer, how Formidable provides Open Source, the benefits of open source, expanding open source, and who is behind Formidable.
Panelists
Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer | Eric Berry
Guest
Lorenzo Sciandra @kelset
Show Notes
02:42 Being an Open Source Maintainer
React Native
Provided As Is
08:40 How Formidable Provides Open Source
14:03 Explaining the Benefits of Open Source to Other Companies
16:38 Expanding Open Source Through...2019-12-0543 min
Behind The Smiles: With Dr. Gina DorfmanMoney Strategies for Dentists with Justin KraneDr. Gina Dorfman interviews Justin Krane, Business Money Strategist, and published author. Justin talks about the power of money and strategy support, business growth / development, and helping all business owners / dentists achieve quality living.Justin Krane's Website: http://jkrane.com/ Buy a copy of Justin's book, Money. You Got This: Easy to Implement Money Strategies So You Can Take Control of Your Business Finances and Create Your Dream Lifehttps://www.amazon.com/Money-You-Got-This-Strategies/dp/1630479209/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Justin+Krane&qid=1555452231&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull 2019-04-1746 min
Away from KeyboardJustin Dorfman’s passion is advocating for developersAfter a very difficult 2014 that put Justin Dorfman in the hospital, he vowed to never go back. Justin has Bipolar I disorder, so coming to terms with his limitations and the sacrifices he needs to make to stay healthy hasn’t been easy. He talks to me about his early BMX dreams, his transition from engineering to marketing, and the stigma around mental health.2018-08-2900 min
Changelog Master FeedJustin Dorfman’s passion is advocating for developers (Away from Keyboard #5)After a very difficult 2014 that put Justin Dorfman in the hospital, he vowed to never go back. Justin has Bipolar I disorder, so coming to terms with his limitations and the sacrifices he needs to make to stay healthy hasn’t been easy. He talks to me about his early BMX dreams, his transition from engineering to marketing, and the stigma around mental health.2018-08-2900 min
Changelog InterviewsBONUS - Sustain Open Source SoftwareJustin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Justin Dorfman – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon...2017-05-0409 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceBONUS - Sustain Open Source Software (Interview)Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Justin Dorfman – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon...2017-05-0409 min