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.
Eric Berry has hosted 74 Episodes.
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Episode 77: Jordan Harband: Being a Sustainable Maintainer of Hundreds of Projects
May 14th, 2021 | 41 mins 11 secs
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Episode 75: Deb Nicholson on the OSI, the future of open source, and SeaGL
April 23rd, 2021 | 33 mins 50 secs
floss, osi, seagl
Deb Nicholson, interim ED for the OSI, joins us to talk about the future of open source, how to OSI is growing and adapting, and about her involvement with SeaGL.
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Episode 73: Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran on using Bounties for Open Source Software
April 2nd, 2021 | 37 mins 49 secs
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Episode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and Sustain
March 22nd, 2021 | 41 mins 26 secs
Eriol Fox, long-time Sustain community member, joins us to talk about the intersection between design and open source
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Episode 60: Erik Rasmussen on the hard work of maintaining, marketing, and funding open source libraries
November 6th, 2020 | 30 mins 38 secs
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Episode 59: Jenn Schiffer on Satire, Coding, Why Teaching OSS Is Super Important
November 3rd, 2020 | 39 mins 13 secs
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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.
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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.
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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.