Abby founded and led Mozilla Open Leaders which mentored over 600 open projects, a thought leader in open source as a keynoter and speaker at major international events such as OSCON, StrangeLoop, SciPy and EuroSciPy. She built various open science prototypes as lead developer for Mozilla Science and lead developer for WormBase. She is a current and past member of a variety of committees and editorial boards including the Journal of Open Source Software, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards, featured in 100 Awesome Women in Open Source, GitHub's State of the Octoverse, and Faces of Open Source.
Abigail Cabunoc Mayes has hosted five Episodes.
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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 189: Otto Richter on Codeberg
June 30th, 2023 | 37 mins 16 secs
Otto dives into Codeberg's financial model, user sovereignty commitment, unique open-source hosting approach, and the challenges & triumphs running a tech nonprofit.
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Episode 187: Karthik Ram on Research Software Sustainability
June 23rd, 2023 | 41 mins 38 secs
Karthik dives into his involvement with URSSI, focusing on software development best practices while highlighting the challenges of scientific software sustainability.
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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