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.
Benjamin Nickolls has hosted 22 Episodes.
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Episode 123: Colin Eberhardt of Scott Logic on Software Sustainability
June 3rd, 2022 | 39 mins 38 secs
Colin tells us about Scott Logic, the journey he’s been on there, and how his view of open source has changed over the years being in this industry.
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Episode 116: Álvaro Trigo of fullPage.js, on making a living using OSS
April 8th, 2022 | 37 mins 33 secs
Álvaro shares his story of making a living as an OSS maintainer, how he started and maintains fullPage.js as a full-time contributor, and why he encourages people to create open source projects.
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Episode 113: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift on the MLH Fellowship program
March 18th, 2022 | 47 mins 22 secs
Jon and Mike share about the MLH Fellowship program, the philosophy behind MLH, and the changes they faced when COVID hit.
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Episode 111: Amanda Casari on ACROSS and Measuring Contributions in OSS
March 4th, 2022 | 43 mins 2 secs
Amanda Casari of Google Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) goes in depth about what open source is to her, collaborating more effectively with people in open source, and how we can support projects financially to other parts of the world.
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Episode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS Communities
February 4th, 2022 | 37 mins 32 secs
Caroline details how she understands the boundaries of communities, what she observes in the open source communities, and how platforms influence communities.
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Episode 106: Rodrigo Mendoza on Quine and GitNFT
January 28th, 2022 | 36 mins 25 secs
Rodrigo Mendoza fills us in about Quine, a data-driven professional network for software creators and, GitNFT, an NFT minting platform for GitHub commits.
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Episode 104: Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover on Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund
January 14th, 2022 | 40 mins 15 secs
Duane and Mandy go into detail on the report and how they built friendship and trust in the process of writing this report successfully.
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Episode 100: Sustain #100: Only Hosts, on who we are, where we came from, and where we're going
December 3rd, 2021 | 37 mins 2 secs
Let's find out a little bit more about each panelist and thoughts about the future of Sustain, and plans going forward! Also, who are Paul and DeAnn?
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Episode 99: Matt Mankins and giving Kudos to OSS maintainers
November 26th, 2021 | 34 mins 19 secs
Matt Mankins talks about his project, Kudos, which uses micropayments to support open source maintainers.
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Episode 97: Anthony Ronda and the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers, games, and Open Source
November 12th, 2021 | 34 mins 40 secs
Anthony fills us in on the history of the League, the background of Foundry, and the open source module that was created.