Sustain

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...

Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Dr. Carlos Maltzahn Show Notes 💬 [**Discuss this episode**](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/center-for-research-in-open-source-software-with-dr-carlos-maltzahn/414/2?u=jdorfman) 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 S...

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,...

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 ref...

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,...

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 so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 TO...

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...

Sponsored By: #28 Cover art uses imagery by [Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team](https://www.hotosm.org/) © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). 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 Direct...

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...

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 spe...

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 crea...

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 ,  RAM...

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 S...

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...

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 currentl...

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 entir...

Summary 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...

Panelists 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 BDF...

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 Formidab...

Serkan is a freelance software developer who has been developing web applications since 2001. Lately he has been working with Angular and ASP.NET. He shares that he has been studying sustainability of open source issues since 2014 and also shares the abridged version of how he came to be involved with the open source community.  Richard then asks Serkan to share more details on how he as a de...