Jan is a codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code; developing tools, processes and collecting best practices for community building. Before joining the Foundation for Public Code he was a policy advisor on digital issues for a green Swedish Member of the European Parliament, mainly working on the copyright directive. Earlier, he ran a consultancy called Open by Default, helping public organizations to use open licenses to publish open data and make open source software. Initially, he was swept into the 'open movement' through Wikipedia editing, leading him to co-found the Swedish Wikimedia chapter, become its chairman and later the CEO.
Jan Ainali has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 184: Omotola Eunice Omotayo & Jan Ainali at FOSS Backstage 2023
June 13th, 2023 | 33 mins 36 secs
Omotola talks about the number of applications Outreachy received and the huge open-source community in Africa and OSCA. Jan discusses Governance Game, a card game created by publiccode.net, designed to encourage discussion about governance in open-source code bases.
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Episode 147: Jan Ainali and the Foundation for Public Code
December 2nd, 2022 | 36 mins 42 secs
Jan talks about the Foundation for Public Code, the process of becoming a member, what sets them apart from others, and their Standard for Public Code that is for anyone who wants to prepare their code to be collaborated on.