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 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
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Episode 136: Daniel S. Katz on the Research Software Alliance (ReSA)
September 2nd, 2022 | 39 mins 32 secs
Daniel joins us to talk about ReSA, how academia has changed over the years, and why funding is necessary for these projects
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Episode 135: Tracy Hinds on Node.js's CommComm and PMs in Open Source
August 26th, 2022 | 35 mins 37 secs
Tracy shares her thoughts on the Node.js Foundations' Community Committee, and what the role is of Product, Program, and Project Managers in OSS
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Episode 134: Cornelius Schumacher on being an Open Source Steward at DB Systel
August 19th, 2022 | 38 mins 27 secs
Cornelius talks about his role as the Open Source Steward at DB Systel, and how he brings his extended history of working with KDE and other open source communities into the German open source world
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Episode 133: Sustain and CHAOSS: A Joint Podcast
August 12th, 2022 | 40 mins 46 secs
Georg Link, Richard Littauer, Dawn Foster, Willem Jiang, Amanda Casari, and Ben Nickolls on maintaining open source
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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 130: OSCA, Docs, and Burnout with Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode (Bami)
July 22nd, 2022 | 38 mins 51 secs
Anita talks about sustaining open source communities and projects through documentation; Bami shares her thoughts about mental health and burnout.
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Episode 129: Per Ploug and the Spotify FOSS Fund
July 15th, 2022 | 42 mins 50 secs
Per talks in-depth about the new FOSS Fund at Spotify, for paying maintainers of independent projects and giving back to open source developers.
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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 127: GitHub Maintainer Month with Marie Kochsiek of drip and Hélène Martin of ODK
June 30th, 2022 | 39 mins 55 secs
Marie goes in-depth about her experience maintaining drip, a local storage period tracker; Hélène talks about ODK’s funding model and her role as the CTO.
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Episode 126: GitHub Maintainer Month with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew and Nina Breznik of DatDot
June 24th, 2022 | 28 mins 39 secs
Mike of Homebrew talks about his experiences being a maintainer; Nina of DatDot shares how she helps other people see being a maintainer as art, not just science