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 78: Stormy Peters: Sustaining FLOSS at Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office
May 21st, 2021 | 34 mins 19 secs
Stormy Peters, the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, joins us to talk about how she got involved with open source, what Microsoft is doing to sustain open source communities, and her view of the future of open source!
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Episode 77: Jordan Harband: Being a Sustainable Maintainer of Hundreds of Projects
May 14th, 2021 | 41 mins 11 secs
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Episode 76: Tobie Langel on what people mean when they say "Open Source"
April 30th, 2021 | 36 mins 19 secs
floss, open source, oss
Tobie Langel joins us to explore different types of open source: community-driven OSS, fauxpen source, the broader ecosystem, and nominal open source.
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Episode 75: Deb Nicholson on the OSI, the future of open source, and SeaGL
April 23rd, 2021 | 33 mins 50 secs
floss, osi, seagl
Deb Nicholson, interim ED for the OSI, joins us to talk about the future of open source, how to OSI is growing and adapting, and about her involvement with SeaGL.
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Episode 74: Jory Burson of OpenJS on building sustainable open source communities
April 9th, 2021 | 33 mins 35 secs
Jory Burson, Community Director of OpenJS, joins us to talk about building sustainable and welcoming open source communities, and on the future of MDN!
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Episode 73: Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran on using Bounties for Open Source Software
April 2nd, 2021 | 37 mins 49 secs
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Episode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and Sustain
March 22nd, 2021 | 41 mins 26 secs
Eriol Fox, long-time Sustain community member, joins us to talk about the intersection between design and open source
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Episode 71: Hong Phuc Dang, founder of FOSSAsia, on how to build communities across boundaries
March 11th, 2021 | 25 mins 35 secs
Hong Phuc Dang, the founder of FOSSAsia, joined us to talk about her work founding FOSSAsia and how the organization works to improve open source worldwide.
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Episode 70: Avi Press and Scarf
March 5th, 2021 | 34 mins 6 secs
Avi Press, CEO and Founder of Scarf, comes on to talk about how Scarf helps open-source developers distribute their software with better observability and control, helping maintainers understand how their work is being used and connect with their commercial end-users, leading to a more sustainable ecosystem.
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Episode 69: Humanitarian Open Source with Michael Nolan
February 26th, 2021 | 32 mins 36 secs
On today’s episode, our special guest is Michael Nolan, Director at the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists and the Assistant Director at Open@RIT. We learn what the Federation of Human Technologists is and what they do, and find out what Mike is doing at Open@RIT.
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Episode 68: Introducing FundOSS.org: A new way of funding open source, by Gitcoin x Sustain
February 19th, 2021 | 32 mins 38 secs
We're introducing a new fund for open source maintainers using quadratic funding!
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Episode 67: Ryan Sipes and Building Community at Thunderbird
February 12th, 2021 | 36 mins 17 secs
Ryan Sipes, the Community and Business Development Manager for Thunderbird, joins us to talk about his amazing work making the profitable open source mail client used by millions.