Episode 67: Ryan Sipes and Building Community at Thunderbird

February 12th, 2021  |  36 mins 17 secs

Ryan Sipes, the Community and Business Development Manager for Thunderbird, joins us to talk about his amazing work making the profitable open source mail client used by millions.

Episode 66: Eric Holscher of Read The Docs, Write The Docs, and Ethical Ads

February 5th, 2021  |  37 mins 41 secs

Eric Holscher, cofounder of Read the Docs, Write the Docs, and Ethical Ads, joins us to talk about his work building a more sustainable and ethical open source ecosystem!

Episode 65: CHAOSS and Sustain: A Joint Podcast

February 1st, 2021  |  44 mins 2 secs

A joint podcast between CHAOSS and Sustain!

Episode 64: Travis Oliphant and Russell Pekrul on NumPy, Anaconda, and giving back with FairOSS

January 8th, 2021  |  39 mins 20 secs

On this podcast we have on Travis Oliphant, founder of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda, and Russell Pekrul, who works with him on FairOSS, a new platform for giving back to maintainers.

Episode 63: Tobias Augspurger on ProtonTypes, LibreSelery, and Environmentally Sustainable Open Source

December 10th, 2020  |  35 mins 3 secs

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!

Episode 62: Richard Fontana on the Legal Side of Open Source

December 7th, 2020  |  42 mins 27 secs

Episode 61: Melissa Logan on Marketing Open Source Effectively and Sustainably

November 17th, 2020  |  37 mins 27 secs

Episode 60: Erik Rasmussen on the hard work of maintaining, marketing, and funding open source libraries

November 6th, 2020  |  30 mins 38 secs

Episode 59: Jenn Schiffer on Satire, Coding, Why Teaching OSS Is Super Important

November 3rd, 2020  |  39 mins 13 secs

Episode 58: Joel Wasserman on Flossbank and Sustainably Giving Back to Dependencies

October 16th, 2020  |  33 mins 20 secs

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 current state of Flossbank is since they are still working on the system.

Episode 57: Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for Life

October 9th, 2020  |  38 mins 46 secs

Mikeal talks about Protocol Labs and his job 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 community and ecosystem from scratch and how they interrelate.

Episode 56: Dominic Tarr on Coding What You Want, Living On A Boat, and the Early Days of Node.js

October 2nd, 2020  |  28 mins 1 sec

Dominic Tarr, an open source sailor hacker person, joins us 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 also learn about what Dominic is doing now and how he envisions open source going forward.