Episode Archive
259 episodes of Sustain since the first episode, which aired on August 6th, 2019.
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Episode 55: André Staltz on Open Source Going to Zero and Developing Below The Poverty Line
September 25th, 2020 | 35 mins 36 secs
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 in the future for open source. Download this episode now to find out all this and much more!
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Episode 54: Danese Cooper on the History of Open Source, InnerSource, and What's Next
September 18th, 2020 | 42 mins 33 secs
Danese Cooper joins us to talk about her work at NearForm, the creation if InnerSource Commons, what she did at PayPal, and why Open Source has won.
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Episode 53: What the Fork? Shurui Zou on Forking in Open Source
September 11th, 2020 | 32 mins 48 secs
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Shurui Zhou, who is going to be teaching soon at University of Toronto in the Fall, and she’s been working on Forks on GitHub. Our topic today is Social vs. Hard Forks. We will learn all about the difference between the Social and Hard forks, Shurui’s GitHub Bot she wrote, and her paper she wrote on “Identifying Features in Forks.” Also, Jenkins, previously known as Hudson, an open source continuous integration tool, is explained and why it is such a success story in terms of hard forks. Download this episode now!
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Episode 52: Being Willing to be Open: Twenty Years of Coding at Red Hat, with Tom "Spot" Callaway
September 4th, 2020 | 45 mins 19 secs
Spot shares stories from the trenches of Red Hat, from the early days when everyone fit into a room to today. A fantastic look at power plays and open source ideology in practice.
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Episode 51: Working in Public: Nadia Eghbal and her new book about Making and Sustaining Open Source Software
August 28th, 2020 | 43 mins 49 secs
author, floss, open source
Nadia Eghbal, author of the seminal work Roads and Bridges, came on to talk to us about her new book, Working in Public.
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Episode 50: Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source
August 21st, 2020 | 42 mins 4 secs
crypto, ethereum, gitcoin, open source
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Episode 49: What OpenUK Does with Amanda Brock & Andrew Katz
August 14th, 2020 | 50 mins 44 secs
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Episode 48: Security and Cryptography with Nadim Kobeissi
August 7th, 2020 | 47 mins 6 secs
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Episode 45: The Meaning of 'Tyranny of Openness' with Nathan Schneider
July 17th, 2020 | 37 mins 44 secs
academia
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Episode 44: Crossing The Chasm with Tobie Langel
July 10th, 2020 | 40 mins 54 secs