GR-OSS OUT Podcast

Lori Lorusso, Director of Outreach at the Rust Foundation, and David Wood, a Rust Project Director and engineer at ARM, join host Jay Faulkner to talk about what the Rust Foundation actually does behind the scenes — funding infrastructure, employing security engineers, and running a maintainer funding program for contributors who aren't backed by a sponsoring company. The conversation covers Rust'...

You can't fire a volunteer. So how do you lead one? Vicky Brasseur — author, OSS strategist, and "open source minister without portfolio" — joins Jay Faulkner on the GROSS Out Podcast to discuss wielding influence without authority: ethical manipulation, director-ready business cases, and the succession planning most projects ignore until it's too late. Plus, Vicky's unflinching take on how the LL...

For our two-year anniversary, Tabatha DiDomenico turns the mic around and puts GROSS Out Podcast founder Jay Faulkner in the hot seat. Jay is a self-taught technologist who never wanted computers as a career — and ended up shaping infrastructure that runs the world as Ironic's project lead and a decade-long OpenStack contributor. In this conversation, he's honest about how that happened, what it a...

Nick Vidal, Community Manager at the Open Source Initiative (OSI), joins host Tabitha to discuss one of the hardest questions in open source right now: what does Open Source AI actually mean, and who gets to decide? At the center of it all is the OSI's effort to build community consensus around a definition that satisfies both developers and data scientists — two groups who don't always see eye to...

Tabitha sits down with Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect at Red Hat and maintainer of Helm — the package manager powering Kubernetes deployments worldwide — to talk about what it really took to ship Helm 4. They cover the 12-month journey to a major release, what got left on the cutting room floor, how the team nearly broke a huge chunk of the community with one dependency change, and why Andy...

Jay Faulkner sits down with Kevin Hannon (GitHub: kannon92), Kubernetes Contributor Award winner and maintainer of the JobSet project, to discuss the growing challenge of running AI and batch workloads on Kubernetes — a platform originally designed for web services and long-running applications. Kevin shares his journey from G Research and the Armada project through to his current work improving K...

We sit down with Æva Black as she shares her journey from creating OpenStack Ironic to leading security policy at Microsoft and CISA. Discussion covers the economics of competing with hyperscalers, Europe's Cyber Resilience Act, managing software dependency complexity, AI's impact on security (including the rise of "vibe hackers"), and a powerful story about how a casual conference conversation le...

In this episode of the G Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast (GROSS OUT), host Jay Faulkner sits down with Dr. Dawn Foster, Director of Data Science at the CHAOSS Project and veteran open source consultant, to explore the hidden infrastructure that keeps open source communities thriving. Dawn shares her 30-year journey through the open source world, from compiling dependencies as a sysa...

Alex Gaynor, long-time open source contributor and core developer of Django, PyPy, and Python's cryptography library, joins us to discuss the challenging transition from C to Rust in the Python ecosystem. We explore memory safety vulnerabilities like buffer overflows, the technical and community challenges of introducing Rust to a major Python library, and how to navigate hostile feedback during c...

Tabitha Diaminico from G Research sits down with Stacey Potter, Manager of Community at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), to explore what makes open source communities thrive. Stacey shares her unique journey through open source—from working at a license compliance company to shepherding projects like Flux through CNCF graduation, and now building inclusive communities at OpenSSF. Dis...

In this episode of the G Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast, host Jay Faulkner sits down with Priyanka "Pinky" Ravi, Platform Tech Advocate at G Research, to explore her unique path from full-stack developer to open source advocate. Pinky shares her fascinating journey implementing inner source practices at State Farm, leading Kubernetes GitOps adoption, and eventually joining the team...

In this episode of the G-Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast, we sit down with Tim Boudreau, one of the early members of G-Research's open source initiative. Tim shares his unique perspective on transitioning from 30 years of writing proprietary software to working in open source communities. We explore the challenges of moving from the controlled environment of corporate development to...

In this episode of the G Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast, host Jay Faulkner sits down with security researcher and engineer David Leadbeater. They dive into David’s journey from hacking on Linux as a kid to discovering vulnerabilities in modern terminals. The conversation explores how obscure bugs can linger in new code, the messy reality of threat modeling, the challenges of mainta...

Mark Burnett, Head of Technology Innovation at G-Research joins us to discuss the impact of open source on enterprise software, the value of being a loud open source customer, and finding open source already aligned to business needs. Mark also provides valuable insight to other business leaders on how to engage the open source community and use open source concepts to fail fast and innovate fast....

Join us as we talk to Ben Wilson about Databricks. Learn about the journey of working in an OSS based business, look into the future of "AI", and learn about how a seasoned developer can have a "GR-OSS" moment and recover from it. Links: Databricks https://www.databricks.com/ Free Form AI podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1ka6DzxQR65hLYldeTmu9Y Adventures in Machine Learning podcast https://po...

In this podcast, Jeremy and Clark talk to us about the open infrastructure stack that powers open infrastructure software! Learn why OpenDev exists, what it can be useful for, and how you can join the collaboratory. Read more about... OpenDev https://opendev.org Zuul https://zuul-ci.org Gerrit https://www.gerritcodereview.com Quay.io https://quay.io OpenStack https://openstack.org OpenInfra Founda...

In this podcast, Tabatha and Jay discuss security, oss communities, and the places security and community can intersect. Learn how GR-OSS works with CHAOSS and OpenSSF as part of our open source work. Read more about... CHAOSS https://chaoss.community/ OpenSSF https://openssf.org/ Want to use open source software to build the next big thing? Check out job vacancies at G-Research! https://www.grese...

In this podcast, we delve into the critical role open source foundations play in fostering the growth and sustainability of open source software. Julia Kreger, Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, joins us to share her expertise and passion for the open source movement. Learn how foundations can ensure that open source projects continue even when a contributor moves on. Read more about: Op...

Major League Hacking (MLH) and GR-OSS have been partnering for years developing the next generation of open source developers. Join us as we talk about struggles, successes, and how overall rewarding this work can be. Learn more about MLH and apply for an MLH Fellowship at https://fellowship.mlh.io . View a video version of this podcast and more content from GR-OSS at https://youtube.com/@oss-gr ....

Come join as Florian Verdonck schools Jay on basics of functional programming and talks about his experience working with F# and improving the F# ecosystem in the latest episode of the GR-OSS OUT podcast. View a video version of this podcast, and more content about Open Source, including CNCF Armada, OpenStack, and many other projects at https://youtube.com/@oss-gr Other links: https://fsprojects....

Come join as Dejan Pejchev talks about his experience working with Kubernetes in the latest episode of the GR-OSS OUT podcast. Find out about how G-Research has engaged with the upstream CNCF communities to support their open source infrastructure. See Dejan's talk about Kubernetes scheduler performance here: https://kccncna2024.sched.com/event/1i7p8 Read more about Armada at https://armadaproject...

Guest: Itamar Turner-Trauring, Open Source Python Developer Itamar joins host Jay Faulkner for a conversation about dataframes in general, with a focus on polars. He explains why dataframes are important, and how polars' approach compares with the approach taken by pandas. It's not all about data science though, Itamar has a long history of contributing to interesting python technologies and debug...

Guest: Jonathan Giannuzzi, Open Source Evangelist at G-Research and core contributor to FasttrackML Jonathan joins host Jay Faulkner for a conversation about artificial intellegence and machine learning. He explains the basics of AI/ML architectures, how data scientists get their work done, and how FasttrackML helps them get more research done faster. Jonathan will also answer our recurring questi...

Guest: Alexander Scammon, Head of Open Source Development at G-Research Video: https://youtu.be/IUHdAmFnUT8 In the premiere episode "What is GR-OSS?", host Jay Faulkner welcomes Alexander Scammon to the G-Research Open Source Software Outreach Podcast. As a founding member of the GR-OSS initiative, Alexander provides an in-depth introduction to this bold experiment in open source transparency. You...