About the show
Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community. We learn about the ins and outs of what ‘open source’ entails in the real world. Open source means so much more than a license; we're interested in talking about how to make sure that the culture of open source continues, grows, and ultimately, sustains itself.
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Episodes
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Episode 148: Ali Nehzat of thanks.dev and OSS Funding
December 9th, 2022 | 41 mins 15 secs
Ali shares why he started thanks.dev, the people that inspired him through his journey, and his mission for OSS developers.
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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 141: Melissa Mendonça on being a Developer Experience Engineer for scientific OSS
October 7th, 2022 | 44 mins 58 secs
Melissa tells us about their work with developer communities at NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and pandas, and how to help people feel seen, heard, and appreciated for their OSS contributions
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Episode 140: Courtney Miller and Hongbo Fang on Toxicity and Information Flow in Open Source Communities
September 30th, 2022 | 45 mins 55 secs
Courtney Miller and Hongbo Fang, two PhD students at Carnegie Mellon with previous guest Bogdan Vasilescu, join us to talk about their research
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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 137: A How-to Guide for Contributing to Open Source as an Employee, for Corporations
September 9th, 2022 | 38 mins 2 secs
Richard, Deb, Alyssa, Josep, and Duane go through work they presented at OSPOCon in Austin, furthering the Sustain Principles of Authentic Participation WG