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Sustain Open Source DesignEpisode 53: Tofus Wang on g0v (GovZero)Guest
Terry “Tofus” Wang
Panelist
Django Skorupa
Show Notes
In this episode of Sustain Open Source Design, Django Skorupa is joined by guest Tofus Wang, a UX designer and open source enthusiast from Taipei. Tofus shares his journey into open source, which began during his high school years. Currently, he is a junior UX designer at National Taiwan University, where he also studies economics. Tofus discusses the g0v (GovZero) hackathons, the challenges and opportunities of contributing to open source as a designer, and how non-coders contribute in meaningful ways...2024-09-2427 min
SustainEpisode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie ByronGuest
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 Aiven, a leading open source data platform. Angie brings us insights from her role overseeing 11 open source projects, explaining how they provide managed services and security updates for several data projects, and highlighting the importance of prioritizing by impact. She al...2024-02-1613 min
SustainEpisode 186: Yan Minagawa & Christian Paul at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Yan Minagawa | Christian Paul
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin, where he has two guests joining him, Yan Minagawa and Christian Paul, from the Matrix Project. Today, they talk about what the Matrix Project is. The project has 80 million users and around 10,000 home servers. We also learn that Christian works on developing bridges for the Matrix project, and Yan is part of the team and works as a Solution Architect, specifically in the public...2023-06-2022 min
SustainEpisode 184: Omotola Eunice Omotayo & Jan Ainali at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Omotola Eunice Omotayo | Jan Ainali
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, Richard’s live at FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin, and on this episode, he’s joined by two guests.
His first guest is Omotola Eunice Omotayo, who works as a community manager and organizer for Outreachy, which is a fellowship under Software Freedom Conservancy. She gave a talk about “Contributor engagement and monetization opportunities” at the event. They discuss the number of applications Outreachy received, the number of interns, and how she mana...2023-06-1333 min
SustainEpisode 182: Wolfgang Gehring & Ana Jiménez at FOSS BackstageGuests
Wolfgang Gehring | Ana Jiménez Santamaría
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, Richard is joined by two guests from FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin.
His first guest is Wolfgang Gehring, OSPO Head at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. Wolfgang discusses the importance of open source at Mercedes-Benz. He mentions the company's recent FOSS convention, explains his role in getting people to work together, and talks about the challenges of de-risking and softening legal requirements. Richard asks for advice on how other large industrial co...2023-06-0638 min
SustainEpisode 180: Gregor Bransky at FOSS Backstage 2023Guest
Gregor Bransky
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is in Berlin this week at FOSS Backstage 2023, and he is joined by his guest, Gregor Bransky, who’s an artist, hacker, and computer technician. He discussed his experiences at CCC and how they value the creation of beauty using technology as part of their "Hacker Ethics." Gregor also discusses his role as a board member for present policy of the Innovation Council Public Health, an NGO that developed digital tools to fi...2023-05-3023 min
SustainEpisode 173: Nick Vidal & Masae Shida at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Nick Vidal | Masae Shida
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is roaming the halls at FOSS Backstage 2023 this week, and you just never know who you’re going to bump into. He grabs Nick Vidal, the new Community Manager for ClearlyDefined, which is an open-source project that aims to bring clarity to licensing information for open-source projects. Nick is trying to reach out to different communities to work together, such as OpenSSF and Open Research Toolkit. Nick and Richard discuss th...2023-05-0537 min
SustainEpisode 170: Smera Goel & Dotan Horovits at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
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...2023-04-2540 min
SustainEpisode 168: Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz at FOSS Backstage 2023Guest
Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
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 speaks with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, CEO of Kaleidos, and creator of Penpot and Taiga. The episode focuses on open-source design and how open-source products can be successful. They discuss how Kaleidos started as a consultancy company, but eventually became a full open-source products company. They also talk about the benefits and risks of focusing entirely on open-source pr...2023-04-1824 min
SustainEpisode 167: Paul Berschick & Oleg Nenashev at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Paul Berschick | Oleg Nenashev
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain!
We are at FOSS Backstage 2023 this week, and our host Richard is joined by Paul Berschick, who’s the organizer of the conference. Paul has been involved with Foss Backstage from the beginning in 2017, and he talks about the development of the event and how it has grown over the years. He mentions that the pandemic helped to refocus the conference and reach more people online. Paul also talks about his company, Pl...2023-04-1436 min
SustainEpisode 166: Thomas Steenbergen & Josep Prat at FOSS Backstage 2023Guests
Thomas Steenbergen | Josep Prat
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2023 that’s held in Berlin every year. On this episode, Richard has two guests joining him. His first guest is Thomas Steenbergen, co-founder and organizer for the TODO Group Europe and Head of the Open Source Program Office at EPAM Systems. Thomas talks about his current workshop, OSS Review Toolkit, his background as a software developer, and the three important aspects of open-source software: consuming, compliance, and contributing ba...2023-04-1146 min
SustainEpisode 156: Paul Berschick and FOSS Backstage 2023 in BerlinGuest
Paul Berschick
Panelists
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard is very excited to have a repeat guest on today, and that is Paul Berschick. Paul is here to tell us a little bit about his conference, FOSS Backstage 2023, which is being held in Berlin, in-person and online, March 13-14. He gives us some important details about the event, from what’s happening this year, some exciting speakers that will be there, an...2023-02-2705 min
SustainEpisode 151: Announcement! Sustain Session @ State of Open Con 2023 in londonPanelists
Richard Littauer | Pia Mancini | Ben Nickolls
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. This is a short episode today because we are headed to London in early February for a Sustain event. Why are we going to London? Well, it’s the State of Open Con 2023, February 7-8, an event that is all things open source, including legal, governance, technology itself, hardware, and data, put on mainly by Amanda Brock and Open UK, and funded by IEEE SA and ma...2023-01-2707 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 76: Tobie Langel on what people mean when they say "Open Source"Guest
Tobie Langel
Panelists
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have an amazing guest back for a second time, Tobie Langel, who is an open source strategy consultant and Founder of UnlockOpen. He’s a really great resource for learning about the ins and outs of how open source works, with his common-sense approach to dealing with common issues that we have with open source licenses. One of the reasons he is here is to talk about a wonderful Tweet he sent...2021-04-3036 min
SustainEpisode 71: Hong Phuc Dang, founder of FOSSAsia, on how to build communities across boundariesGuest
Hong Phuc Dang
Panelists
Pia Mancini |
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our guest today is Hong Phuc Dang, an awesome open source contributor and long-term member of Sustain. She is also the Founder of FOSSASIA and works with Zalando, a clothing manufacturer and store in Europe. We will learn all about what Hong Phuc does at Zalando. Also, she tells us more about what FOSSASIA is, how many people are in it, how many countries are represented, tensions to deal with, and so...2021-03-1125 min
Sustain Open Source DesignEpisode 1: What is Sustain Open Source Design? An IntroductionPanelists
Richard Littauer
Eriol Fox
Perrie Ojemeh
Georgia Bullen
Memo Esparza
Justin W. Flory
Show Notes
Hello world and welcome to the debut episode of Sustain Open Source Design! On this podcast, we will talk about sustaining open source design. But what does design mean? Well, listen to this podcast and you will find out. Instead of having a guest we have six panelists, most won’t be on every episode, but some will be on at least every episode. Today, our goal is to talk about who we...2021-01-2925 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 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 55: André Staltz on Open Source Going to Zero and Developing Below The Poverty LinePanelists
Pia Mancini | Richard Littauer
Guest
André Staltz
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is André Staltz, a self-employed JavaScript wizard from Helsinki, Finland. He’s done a lot of interesting open source work and has been really instrumental in how open source funds individual developers. He tells us about his consulting job and about the great blog post he wrote. We will talk about the cost of software going to zero and what this means. Also, André tells us what he hopes to see i...2020-09-2535 min
The Ruby BlendEpisode 21: Do you really need two cans of Play-Doh?The Ruby Blend - Episode 21Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Dave had a great idea for our topic today, which we'll be talking about our development setups, our environments, and some of the equipment we are using. Dave tells us about Elgato Steam Deck that he's getting soon and pingVerse. We will learn the guys favorite fonts, browsers they are using, specific equipment that is in their office, and what applications they can't live without. Dave makes a point about keeping your desk clean and why does Andrew disagree? Download this episode to find out...2020-09-0354 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 14: The Theory and Future of Measurement with Chris MercerPanelists
Venia | Don | Matt Germonprez
Guest
Chris Mercer
Show Notes
[00:02:25] Mercer tells us what exactly MeasurementMarketing is.
[00:04:47] Matt asks Mercer how he filters through all of the digital data that’s available to us to make sure that this is somehow meaningful as a great tool.
[00:08:09] Don brings up Facebook’s instructions on digital marketing 101 and wants to know if that’s a thing that can be done. He also wants to know from a competitive point of view if Mercer is concerned about data going over to oth...2020-08-2154 min
The Ruby BlendEpisode 19: MetaprogrammingThe Ruby Blend - Episode 19Welcome to The Ruby Blend! Today we have a new panelist with us, Eric Berry, who was the founder of CodeFund, and has worked with Andrew and Nate for a while. On this episode the guys will discuss Metaprogramming. What is it and how does it work? We will also learn about JSON Schema, ModelProbe, Slim, Haml, Tailwind, and ERB. So much interesting information! Download this episode now to find out what makes Andrew blush! ☺Sponsored by:HoneybadgerPanelists:
Andrew Mason
Nate Hopkins
Eric Be...2020-08-2043 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 12: How Social Marketing Interfaces with Community with Michelle DaltonPanelists
Venia Logan | Foundjem Armstrong | Nicole Huesman
Guest
Michelle Dalton
Show Notes
[00:01:21] Michelle gives us her background and fills us in on her journey into community management.
[00:04:30] Digital marketer and where the engaged group sets in its strategic plan is discussed, as well as how big the digital engaged community is.
[00:07:44] Michelle talks about what her job looked like in the service area and how it changed in engage.
[00:09:39] Nicole asks Michelle if there have been any surprises or things that you didn’t expect in...2020-08-0745 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 9: In Defense of Vanity MetricsPanelists
Venia Logan | Matt Broberg
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
[00:02:23] Matt and Venia explain what a Vanity Metric is.
[00:06:41] Matt wants to know what is the opposite of a Vanity Metric?
[00:10:46] Matt and Venia talk about how having a community strategy is so essential to understanding why we are using metrics.
[00:12:27] Matt brings up being in the hot seat of being Community Manager and an uncomfortable moment he had. Venia tells us a powerful story she encountered in her background with the LGBTQ.
2020-07-1739 min
The Ruby BlendEpisode 18: InterviewingThe Ruby Blend - Episode 18Welcome to The Ruby Blend! The guys catch up on what's been going on this week. Ron has been taking an insurance class with his work to learn the ins and outs of the insurance industry, Nate's been busy working with Code Fund becoming an independent company, and Andrew has been on the interviewing circuit trying to find a new job. This leads us to the topic of today's episode, which is "Interviewing." The guys chat all about all the different things they've experienced over the years with the interviewing process...2020-07-1649 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 7: Your Community Story with Jono BaconPanelists
Venia Logan | Nicole Huesman | Brian Proffitt
Guests
Jono Bacon
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
[00:02:16] Jono gives us an introduction what he does and how he got into his job.
[00:03:48] Nicole asks Jono what are some of the key strategies he’s used over the years to propel his career in community management and community strategy?
[00:07:10] Venia wants to know how Jono ended up managing the role of community manager as he went through his early days.
[00:09:52] Brian wants to kn...2020-07-0350 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
CHAOSScastEpisode 5: Defining “Open Source Community Health”Panelists
Dawn Foster | Matt Germonprez | Sean Goggins | Georg Link | Don Marti
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
[00:02:43] Georg explains Open Source, Open Source Community, and Open Source Community Health.
[00:04:25] The rest of the panelists give their opinions on Open Source Community Health.
[00:08:04] Dawn talks about OpenSSL, which is an Open Source project that is in use by almost every single big company in the world but maintained by only a couple of people who could barely afford to do it.
[00:08:45] Don wonders if Open Source...2020-06-1943 min
CHAOSScastEpisode 2: Social Currency Metric System (SCMS)Panelists
Dawn Foster | Matt Broberg | Georg Link
Guest
Samantha Venia Logan
Dylan Marcy
Sponsor
Linode
Show Notes
Welcome to this episode of CHAOSSCast! Today, we have special guests, Venia Logan and Dylan Marcy of SociallyConstructed.Online. They are here to do some introspection on the process CHAOSS follows for defining metrics and to demonstrate this using the Social Currency Metric System (SCMS). It is a very interesting topic and if you don’t know much about SCMS, then this podcast is definitely worth a listen.
[00:04:00] Ve...2020-05-2949 min