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.
Leslie Hawthorn has hosted 10 Episodes.
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Episode 242: Ben Cotton on Program Management for Open Source Projects
August 9th, 2024 | 44 mins 9 secs
Ben talks about his book, "Program Management for Open Source Projects", intentional program management and AI's impact on inclusivity in open source.
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Episode 224: Ciarán O’Riordan on the EU's Cyber Resiliency Act
March 15th, 2024 | 39 mins 30 secs
Ciaran shares his insights on the Cyber Resiliency Act's impact on the FOSS community, draft concerns, community involvement, and the wider legislative landscape in Europe.
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Episode 222: Nathan Schneider on his new book "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life"
March 1st, 2024 | 36 mins 38 secs
Nathan dives into his latest creation, ”Governable Spaces”, exploring historical developments and challenges, and unveils insights into global democracy's potential impact.
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Episode 213: Chad Whitacre on Sponsoring $500,000 to Open Source
December 22nd, 2023 | 38 mins 8 secs
Chad highlights Sentry's open-source sponsorship of half a million dollars this year. He introduces the FOSS Funder group encouraging corporate support, and shares a unique business card approach leaving a community impact.
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Episode 210: Dr. Bryan Behrenshausen on GitLab
December 1st, 2023 | 33 mins 17 secs
Bryan highlights GitLab's support for open source via GitLab for Open Source & GitLab Open Source Partners, and emphasizes transparent documentation, and policies for open-source success.
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Episode 206: Sophia Vargas of Google on Funding and Motivation in Open Source
November 3rd, 2023 | 42 mins 16 secs
Sophia shares the challenge of understanding contributor motivations, Google's role in open source, and the vital 'glue work' in open source communities.
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Episode 185: Daniel Stenberg on the cURL project
June 16th, 2023 | 37 mins 25 secs
Daniel shares about the cURL project, its long history and current sustainability, and his project growth aspirations.
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Episode 175: Serkan Holat on Agile Public Funds
May 12th, 2023 | 41 mins 24 secs
Serkan talks about the need to allocate funds to support and publish critical open source software, and about a tax proposal to do just that.
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Episode 155: Yadira Sánchez Benítez on creating liberatory, pluriversal spaces in Open Source
February 24th, 2023 | 40 mins 3 secs
Yadira tells us about her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute, what open source means in community work, her work with other communities that have language barriers to get them more involved, and she talks about the importance of being aware of the privileges we hold in different spaces.
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Episode 154: Clare Dillon of InnerSource Commons on OSPOs and the Open Ireland Network
February 17th, 2023 | 40 mins 39 secs
Clare takes us through how she got into open source and involved with InnerSource Commons, and how her work has helped build open OSPOs in Ireland and beyond since.