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.
Justin Dorfman has hosted 98 Episodes.
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Episode 252: Nolan Lawson of PouchDB on what it feels like to be a maintainer
October 18th, 2024 | 36 mins 33 secs
Nolan delves into burnout, open source challenges, reputation pressures, and his shift to sustainable practices like Pinafore.
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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 190: Karen M. Sandler on Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)
July 7th, 2023 | 38 mins 19 secs
Karen discusses her SFC role, Copyleft licenses' significance, diversity initiative called Outreachy & her personal defibrillator pacemaker encounter, stressing the necessity for greater technological control.
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Episode 183: Nahuai Badiola on WordPress, W3C, and all of tech sustainability
June 9th, 2023 | 34 mins 57 secs
Nahuai tells us the importance of sustainability in different contexts, the W3C Sustainability Working Group, and his project called Doughnut Economics.
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Episode 171: Chris Baker & Stephen Jacobs on Open@RIT
April 28th, 2023 | 40 mins 56 secs
Stephen and Chris talk about their OSPO at RIT, how to help students deal with diverse incentives in open source and academia, and the importance of role diversity in software development
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Episode 161: Aaron Crawfis on Dapr and Sustaining Cloud OSS
March 24th, 2023 | 34 mins
Aaron goes in depth about Dapr, Azure, and working in the cloud space. He tells us about the incubation space at Azure, and he shares some advice if you’re a project looking to get into this space.
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Episode 157: Joel Wasserman on lessons learned with Flossbank
March 3rd, 2023 | 41 mins 56 secs
Joel goes in-depth about what he learned about the open source ecosystem while building and running Flossbank, a dependency-funding tool that closed down last year.
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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.
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Episode 153: Kailash Nadh and the FOSS United Foundation
February 10th, 2023 | 42 mins 29 secs
Kailash talks about his work as CTO running the FOSS program at Zerodha, and about his non-profit FOSS United Foundation which supports FOSS in India
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Episode 152: Dudley Carr and Wes Carr on StackAid
February 3rd, 2023 | 42 mins 40 secs
Dudley and Wes share all things StackAid, their backgrounds, some of their long-term goals, and exciting things on the horizon for StackAid.
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Episode 150: Dustin Ingram and the Open Source Security Team at Google
January 6th, 2023 | 35 mins 44 secs
Dustin talks about the Open Source Security Team at Google, what they do, the bill they’ve contributed to for Securing Open Source Software Act of 2022, a rewards program they have to pay maintainers called SOS Rewards, and Google’s role in the sigstore project.
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Episode 149: Naytri Sramek on the GitHub Accelerator and M12 GitHub Fund
December 16th, 2022 | 40 mins 10 secs
Naytri shares GitHub’s journey, from the GitHub Sponsors launch in 2019, bringing on enterprise sponsors, and how it led into launching the GitHub Accelerator program and the M12 GitHub Fund.