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 97 Episodes.
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Episode 147: Jan Ainali and the Foundation for Public Code
December 2nd, 2022 | 36 mins 42 secs
Jan talks about the Foundation for Public Code, the process of becoming a member, what sets them apart from others, and their Standard for Public Code that is for anyone who wants to prepare their code to be collaborated on.
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Episode 146: Anjana Vakil on the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Learning to Code
November 25th, 2022 | 46 mins 18 secs
Anjana Vakil shares her journey from teacher to OSS engineer, through the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and her passion for learning and sharing.
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Episode 145: Ashley Williams on Open Source Software Sustainability
November 4th, 2022 | 44 mins 47 secs
Ashley shares about her time at Node.js, Rust, and her new company Axo, and has suggestions for how open-source projects can get money to become successful in the long term
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Episode 144: Simon Minton of Ringer on Empowering Individual Contributors
October 28th, 2022 | 39 mins 58 secs
Simon tells us how Ringer is different in providing for their maintainers, how they give back to projects, handle consultancy with projects, and their recruitment process.
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Episode 143: Amanda Brock of OpenUK on Open Source Law, Policy and Practice
October 21st, 2022 | 42 mins 18 secs
Amanda goes in-depth about creating a broader engagement across the UK government on security, technical issues, and security policy issues.
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Episode 142: Nicholas Zakas on Sponsoring Dependencies, All The Way Down
October 14th, 2022 | 43 mins 13 secs
Nicholas comes back on the podcast to talk about why it's important for open source projects to not just get funding, but give that funding downstream to their dependencies too.
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Episode 139: Manuel Riel on PikaPods, a container hosting service for open source apps
September 23rd, 2022 | 29 mins 24 secs
Manu shares about running a container hosting service for open source apps
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Episode 138: Ruth Cheesley, the Mautic Project Lead at Acquia, on Building and Growing Open Source Communities
September 16th, 2022 | 39 mins 41 secs
Ruth shares her experience with OSS governance, why Open Source Friday is so important, and how she helps diversify the contributor base
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Episode 132: Ana Jiménez Santamaría on OSPOs and the TODO Group
August 5th, 2022 | 37 mins 6 secs
Ana goes in-depth about the TODO Group, OSPOlogy, and the OSPO Mind Map Project
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Episode 131: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Community Africa (OSCA)
July 29th, 2022 | 38 mins 49 secs
Bolaji takes us through the OSCA community and what can be done to help the next generation of open source contributors and developers from Africa.
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Episode 128: Sustain Hosts: What Does Sustain Mean?
July 8th, 2022 | 39 mins 59 secs
Our panelists, Richard, Justin, Ben, and Amanda, talk about the origins of SustainOSS and how it started, the definition of a “sustainer,” and how we can grow as a community.
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Episode 124: Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source Contributions
June 10th, 2022 | 40 mins 26 secs
Julia shares about her background, what Open Source Stories is, and how she quantifies a black swan open source.