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 57: Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for Life
October 9th, 2020 | 38 mins 46 secs
Mikeal talks about Protocol Labs and his job as the IPLD Lead (InterPlanetary Linked Data). We will find out what happened when io.js forked with Node.js, if there is a difference between the Project Manager and Developer Role, and Mikeal’s interests in design libraries, and building a community and ecosystem from scratch and how they interrelate.
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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 53: What the Fork? Shurui Zou on Forking in Open Source
September 11th, 2020 | 32 mins 48 secs
Hello and welcome to Sustain! On today’s episode, we have special guest, Shurui Zhou, who is going to be teaching soon at University of Toronto in the Fall, and she’s been working on Forks on GitHub. Our topic today is Social vs. Hard Forks. We will learn all about the difference between the Social and Hard forks, Shurui’s GitHub Bot she wrote, and her paper she wrote on “Identifying Features in Forks.” Also, Jenkins, previously known as Hudson, an open source continuous integration tool, is explained and why it is such a success story in terms of hard forks. Download this episode now!
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Episode 51: Working in Public: Nadia Eghbal and her new book about Making and Sustaining Open Source Software
August 28th, 2020 | 43 mins 49 secs
author, floss, open source
Nadia Eghbal, author of the seminal work Roads and Bridges, came on to talk to us about her new book, Working in Public.
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Episode 50: Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source
August 21st, 2020 | 42 mins 4 secs
crypto, ethereum, gitcoin, open source
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Episode 49: What OpenUK Does with Amanda Brock & Andrew Katz
August 14th, 2020 | 50 mins 44 secs
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Episode 48: Security and Cryptography with Nadim Kobeissi
August 7th, 2020 | 47 mins 6 secs
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Episode 45: The Meaning of 'Tyranny of Openness' with Nathan Schneider
July 17th, 2020 | 37 mins 44 secs
academia
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Episode 44: Crossing The Chasm with Tobie Langel
July 10th, 2020 | 40 mins 54 secs
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Episode 43: Investing in Open Infrastructure with Kaitlin Thaney
July 3rd, 2020 | 40 mins 40 secs