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 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald
April 29th, 2022 | 34 mins 9 secs
Florian tells us about Rust Foundation & Ferrous Systems, while Silona shares more about the IEEE SA OPEN & her FOSS Backstage talk about diversity and what it means to grow open source.
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Episode 117: Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects
April 15th, 2022 | 45 mins 48 secs
Mike McQuaid shares on the history of Homebrew, his involvement in open source, boundary setting, and what software sustainability means for him.
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Episode 116: Álvaro Trigo of fullPage.js, on making a living using OSS
April 8th, 2022 | 37 mins 33 secs
Álvaro shares his story of making a living as an OSS maintainer, how he started and maintains fullPage.js as a full-time contributor, and why he encourages people to create open source projects.
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Episode 115: Emily Shaffer: Paid OSS Software Development on the Git project
April 1st, 2022 | 40 mins 42 secs
Emily fills us in on Git’s governance, deadnaming, submodules, Git Hooks, and GitGitGadget.
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Episode 114: Chris Coleman and the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA)
March 25th, 2022 | 33 mins 18 secs
Chris takes us through his journey of creating COSA, what they’re focused on, some cool projects they are working with, and a few bits about Web3 and Crypto.
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Episode 113: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift on the MLH Fellowship program
March 18th, 2022 | 47 mins 22 secs
Jon and Mike share about the MLH Fellowship program, the philosophy behind MLH, and the changes they faced when COVID hit.
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Episode 112: Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
March 11th, 2022 | 41 mins 56 secs
Today, Mike tells us all about The Document Foundation, LibreOffice, how they work together, and how he really wants to grow the LibreOffice community.
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Episode 111: Amanda Casari on ACROSS and Measuring Contributions in OSS
March 4th, 2022 | 43 mins 2 secs
Amanda Casari of Google Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) goes in depth about what open source is to her, collaborating more effectively with people in open source, and how we can support projects financially to other parts of the world.
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Episode 110: Impactful Open Source: Teaching Open Source Technology Managers at Brandeis, with Ken Udas and Georg Link
February 25th, 2022 | 32 mins 30 secs
Ken Udas and Georg Link join us to talk about the Open Source Technology Management Program at Brandeis University, and how they're building the next generation of OSPO leaders.
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Episode 109: Dries Buytaert of Drupal on Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
February 18th, 2022 | 42 mins 4 secs
Dries joins us to talk about Drupal and why it’s so successful. He also goes in depth about balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source.
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Episode 108: Sarah Gran and Josh Aas: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure with Memory Safe Code
February 11th, 2022 | 42 mins 36 secs
Sarah Gran and Josh Aas of ISRG go in-depth about their work on Prossimo to bring memory safe code to critical digital infrastructure and some other projects they are investing in this year.
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Episode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS Communities
February 4th, 2022 | 37 mins 32 secs
Caroline details how she understands the boundaries of communities, what she observes in the open source communities, and how platforms influence communities.