SustainOSS

Sustain

Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community. We learn about the ins and outs of what ‘open source’ entails in the real world. Open source means so much more than a license; we're interested in talking about how to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately, sustains itself. Newsletter

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Latest episode

Jun 12, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 139: Manuel Riel on PikaPods, a container hosting service for open source apps 23.09.2022

Guest 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 backu...

Episode 138: Ruth Cheesley, the Mautic Project Lead at Acquia, on Building and Growing Open Source Communities 16.09.2022

Guest 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 w...

Episode 137: A How-to Guide for Contributing to Open Source as an Employee, for Corporations 09.09.2022

Panelists Richard Littauer | Deb Nicholson | Alyssa Wright | Josep Prat | Duane O’Brien Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We have an exciting episode today because just like long haul truckers, open source maintainers are the people who are keeping the world alive with open source. What we’re excited about is a talk t...

Episode 136: Daniel S. Katz on the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) 02.09.2022

Guest Daniel S. Katz Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls | Amanda Casari 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 Daniel S. Katz, who’s Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and...

Episode 135: Tracy Hinds on Node.js's CommComm and PMs in Open Source 26.08.2022

Guest Tracy Hinds Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited with our guest today, Tracy Hinds, who’s currently the CEO and Founder of Crow & Pitcher and serves as a CFO and board director at the Open Source Initiative. She’s also a long-time open source practit...

Episode 134: Cornelius Schumacher on being an Open Source Steward at DB Systel 19.08.2022

Guest Cornelius Schumacher Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We’re very excited to have as our guest, Cornelius Schumacher, who works as the Open Source Steward at DB Systel, helping teams to successfully use and contribute to open source. Today, we’ll have discussions with Co...

Episode 133: Sustain and CHAOSS: A Joint Podcast 12.08.2022

Panelists Georg Link | Richard Littauer | Dawn Foster | Willem Jiang | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. Elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software, or short CHAOSS Project, to whe...

Episode 132: Ana Jiménez Santamaría on OSPOs and the TODO Group 05.08.2022

Guest 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, an...

Episode 131: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Community Africa (OSCA) 29.07.2022

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 communit...

Episode 130: OSCA, Docs, and Burnout with Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode (Bami) 22.07.2022

Guest Anita Ihuman | Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we’ll be talking to two guests who are a part of the Open Source Community Africa (OSCA), which has a conference every year or so in Nigeria, where a lot of people come together. We’ve invited people w...

Episode 129: Per Ploug and the Spotify FOSS Fund 15.07.2022

Guest Per Ploug Krogslund Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is Per Ploug Krogslund, who’s the Open Source Tech Lead at Spotify. He’s with us to talk in-depth about the FOSS Fund he’s setting up with Spotify, to pay maintainers of independent projects and give b...

Episode 128: Sustain Hosts: What Does Sustain Mean? 08.07.2022

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...

Episode 127: GitHub Maintainer Month with Marie Kochsiek of drip and Hélène Martin of ODK 30.06.2022

Guest Marie Kochsiek | Hélène Martin Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to a special episode of Sustain/GitHub Maintainer Month, which is a short series of podcasts where we’re focusing on maintainers of open source, what they do with their experience, and how they contribute to the sustainability of their projects. Our first guest is Marie Kochsiek, who’s a developer and one...

Episode 126: GitHub Maintainer Month with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew and Nina Breznik of DatDot 24.06.2022

Guest Mike McQuaid | Nina Breznik Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to a special episode of Sustain, where we interview Maintainers as part of GitHub Maintainer Month! On this episode, Richard is interviewing a few open source maintainers to talk about what it’s like to be a maintainer, how awesome they are, and what issues they may have being a maintainer. My first guest is...

Episode 125: Astor Nummelin Carlberg of OFE on the Economic Impact of Open Source 17.06.2022

Guest Astor Nummelin Carlberg Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On this episode, we have joining us, Astor Nummelin Carlberg, who’s the Executive Director of OpenForum Europe. OFE works with open technologies and public policy. Today, Astor goes in depth about...

Episode 124: Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source Contributions 10.06.2022

Guest 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 u...

Episode 123: Colin Eberhardt of Scott Logic on Software Sustainability 03.06.2022

Guest Colin Eberhardt Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show ask: Fill out this Survey for OSS in Europe! Link . Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, joining us as our guest is Colin Eberhardt, who’s the CTO at Scott Logic, which is a UK based software consultancy, and a member of FINOS. Colin tells us abo...

Episode 122: A conversation with Stefano Maffulli of the OSI 27.05.2022

Guest 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 i...

Episode 121: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Cornelius Schumacher, Yadira Sánchez Benítez & Thomas Fricke 20.05.2022

Guests Cornelius Schumacher | Yadira Sánchez Benítez | Thomas Fricke Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about software sustainability, what they h...

Episode 120: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Rich Bowen & Paul Berschick 13.05.2022

Guests Rich Bowen | Paul Berschick Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about software sustainability, what they hope to find in FOSS Backstage, tal...

Episode 119: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Ana Jiménez Santamaría and McCoy Smith 06.05.2022

Guests Ana Jiménez Santamaría | McCoy Smith Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about open source software sustainability, what they hope to find i...

Episode 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald 29.04.2022

Guest Florian Gilcher | Silona Bonewald Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source and sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about software sustainability, what they hope to find in FOSS Back...

Episode 117: Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects 15.04.2022

Guest Mike McQuaid Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about software sustainability for the long haul. Today, I’m very excited to have as my guest from Edinburgh, Mike McQuaid, who’s a Principal Engineer at GitHub and the Project Leader of Homebrew. Mike fills us in on Homebrew, how he became the Project Lead, and the Homebrew journey towa...

Episode 116: Álvaro Trigo of fullPage.js, on making a living using OSS 08.04.2022

Guest Álvaro Trigo Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is Álvaro Trigo, who is an open source developer and maintainer of fullPage.js, which is an open source package that helps you figure out how to make a full-page website. He’s made this into a...

Episode 115: Emily Shaffer: Paid OSS Software Development on the Git project 01.04.2022

Guest Emily Shaffer Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we’re going to have some great conversations with our guest, Emily Shaffer, who is a Software Developer for Google working on Git, which is an open source project. Emily fills us in on Git’s governance, deadnaming, sub...

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