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Richard Littauer
Richard Littauer has hosted 247 episodes.
All around entrepreneur, developer, nomad, poet, sailor, linguist, writer, and runner. Always making new projects, always iterating on the old ones.
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Eriol Fox
Eriol Fox has hosted 11 episodes.
Eriol has been working as a Designer for 10 years working in for-profits and then moving into NGO's and open source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peacebuilding and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at Open Food Network and is part of the core team at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) and Human Rights Centred Design working group (https://hrcd.pubpub.org/) and is working towards a Comp Sci Phd at Newcastle university researching how designers are involved in humanitarian focussed OSS.
Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns. Their non-work time is spent playing video games, table top rpg's, gardening and reading.
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Benjamin Nickolls
Benjamin Nickolls has hosted 22 episodes.
Ben is Executive Director of Open Source Collective, hosting around 3,000 open source communities on the Open Collective Platform. Ben is also the maintainer of Octobox.io a GitHub Notifications web client and browser extension, and an occasional boardgame designer.
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Amanda Casari
Amanda Casari has hosted 11 episodes.
Amanda Casari is a researcher and engineer continuously fascinated by the difference between the systems we aim to create and the ones that emerge. Her current research focuses on risk and resilience in open source ecosystems and networks. She has been an active contributor and community member in open source for over a decade, including: organizing local community groups, filing issues, cleaning up documentation, testing fixes, moving chairs, funding conference sponsorships and stickers, and baking pies.
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Leslie Hawthorn
Leslie Hawthorn has hosted 10 episodes.
Leslie Hawthorn has spent her career creating and cultivating open source
communities. She has driven open source strategy in Fortune 10 companies, pre-IPO
startups, and Foundation Boards including senior roles at Red Hat, Google, the Open
Source Initiative, and Elastic. She currently leads the vertical community strategy team
within Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office.Leslie advocates for creating citizen-centric and highly accessible Smart Cities underpinned by open source and open standards. She spends her spare time on tech for social good projects. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, she has called Europe home for the past seven years and resides in Bonn with her daughter, their two canaries, Elle and Nana, and a small cat named Fee.
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Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes has hosted 6 episodes.
Abby founded and led Mozilla Open Leaders which mentored over 600 open projects, a thought leader in open source as a keynoter and speaker at major international events such as OSCON, StrangeLoop, SciPy and EuroSciPy. She built various open science prototypes as lead developer for Mozilla Science and lead developer for WormBase. She is a current and past member of a variety of committees and editorial boards including the Journal of Open Source Software, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards, featured in 100 Awesome Women in Open Source, GitHub's State of the Octoverse, and Faces of Open Source.
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Justin Dorfman
Justin Dorfman has hosted 98 episodes.
Justin Dorfman is Sourcegraph's Open Source Program Manager and is responsible for fostering the adoption of universal code search in the open source community. Previously, he led similar initiatives for Curiefense (a CNCF project), Gitcoin, & MaxCDN.
Justin has contributed to Bootstrap, Font Awesome, jQuery, Nginx, GNU Bash, Zsh, and many more. He also serves on the Selection Committee for Mozilla's Open Source Support (MOSS) program, as well as the Open Source Collective's board of directors. In 2017, he co-founded SustainOSS, which hosts events and podcasts for Open Source Software Sustainers.
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Eric Berry
Eric Berry has hosted 74 episodes.
I have been a software developer since 1997. I co-founded a startup called ShareAPhoto which was eventually acquired by HP. I am the author of the Rails Pocket Reference (O’Reilly 2008) and have been an active member of the open source developer community since. I have been working in the open source sustainability field for nearly a year. I founded Code Sponsor last year to help support open source projects. This year, we re-branded the company as CodeFund and focus on helping developers find funding through ethical advertising.
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Pia Mancini
Pia Mancini has hosted 26 episodes.
Pia Mancini is an activist and technical project leader from Argentina. She is co-founder of Democracy Earth and Open Collective. The latter is a project that facilitates open source code contributors to receive donations for their labour.
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Allen "Gunner" Gunn
Allen "Gunner" Gunn has hosted 14 episodes.
Allen Gunn is Executive Director of Aspiration (www.aspirationtech.org) in San Francisco, USA, and works to help NGOs, activists, foundations and software developers make more effective use of technology for social change.
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Duane O'Brien
Duane O'Brien has hosted 2 episodes.
I have been leading the Open Source Program Office for Indeed.com since November, 2017. There I have defined and implemented policies, programs, and initiatives designed to grow open source participation across the company. Prior to that, my career has pulled me along the paths of QA Engineer, Game Designer, Web App Developer, Writer, Javascript Engineer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Open Source Evangelist, Public Speaker, Speaker Trainer, and Open Source Programs Operations.
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Deb Nicholson
Deb Nicholson has hosted 1 episode.
Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. After years of local organizing on free speech, marriage equality, government transparency and access to the political process, she joined the free software movement in 2006.She’s won the O’Reilly Open Source Award and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for her efforts to broaden the free software movement. She is also a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community.
She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Josep Prat
Josep Prat has hosted 1 episode.
Josep Prat is an Open Source Software Manager at Aiven and is passionate about Open Source Technologies. With a strong background in Scala and distributed systems, he contributes to several Open Source Projects like Kafka and Akka, and is a committer for Akka HTTP. In his spare time, Josep enjoys late and long brunches on Sundays.
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Georg Link
Georg Link has hosted 1 episode.
Georg’s mission is to help open source become more professional in its use of community metrics and analytics. Georg co-founded the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. As the Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities with adopting CHAOSS metrics and technology. In his spare time, Georg enjoys reading and hot-air ballooning.
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Willem Jiang
Willem Jiang has hosted 1 episode.
Willem Jiang is the technical expert of Huawei, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, initiator of Apache Local Community of Beijing. Willem has a passion for mentoring engineers who want to join the Open Source Community. Before joining Huawei, Willem was the principal engineer of Red Hat working on Fuse ESB. - https://willemjiang.github.io/
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Dawn Foster
Dawn Foster has hosted 1 episode.
Dawn is the Open Source Community Strategy Lead within VMware's Open Source Program Office. She recently joined the board of OpenUK, an organization committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. Dawn is on the Governing Board and is a maintainer for the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project and is on the Board of Advisors for Bitergia. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data associated with participation in developer and open source communities. Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at dozens of industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more.
Dawn Foster is on the CHAOSS Governing Board, a maintainer of the Diversity and Inclusion WG, Common Metrics WG, and a regular panelist on the CHAOSScast.
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Karen Sandler
Karen Sandler has hosted 1 episode.
Karen M. Sandler is an attorney and the executive director of Software
Freedom Conservancy, a 501c3 nonprofit
organization focused on ethical technology. As a patient deeply
concerned with the technology in her own body, Karen is known as a
cyborg lawyer for her advocacy for free software as a life-or-death
issue, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. She
co-organizes Outreachy, the award-winning
outreach program for people who face under-representation, systemic
bias, or discrimination in tech. She is an adjunct Lecturer-In-Law of
Columbia Law School.Prior to joining Software Freedom Conservancy, Karen was the executive
director of the GNOME Foundation. Before that,
she was the general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. She
began her career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance and Gibson, Dunn &
Crutcher LLP.Sandler has won awards for her work on behalf of software freedom,
including the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2011. She received an
honorary doctorate from KU Leuven in 2023.