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 66: Eric Holscher of Read The Docs, Write The Docs, and Ethical Ads
February 5th, 2021 | 37 mins 41 secs
Eric Holscher, cofounder of Read the Docs, Write the Docs, and Ethical Ads, joins us to talk about his work building a more sustainable and ethical open source ecosystem!
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Episode 65: CHAOSS and Sustain: A Joint Podcast
February 1st, 2021 | 44 mins 2 secs
A joint podcast between CHAOSS and Sustain!
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Episode 64: Travis Oliphant and Russell Pekrul on NumPy, Anaconda, and giving back with FairOSS
January 8th, 2021 | 39 mins 20 secs
On this podcast we have on Travis Oliphant, founder of NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda, and Russell Pekrul, who works with him on FairOSS, a new platform for giving back to maintainers.
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Episode 63: Tobias Augspurger on ProtonTypes, LibreSelery, and Environmentally Sustainable Open Source
December 10th, 2020 | 35 mins 3 secs
Hello and welcome to Sustain! Our special guest today is Tobias Augspurger, founder of Protontypes. Today, we learn all about Protontypes and LibreSelery. We will also talk about his sustainable awesome-list. We cover the robotics industry, and how open source has influenced it. We cover other sustainability projects, like FarmBot, which blend together community and open source. Tobias tells us other projects he’s interested in doing with ProntonTypes. Download this episode now to find out!
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Episode 62: Richard Fontana on the Legal Side of Open Source
December 7th, 2020 | 42 mins 27 secs
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Episode 61: Melissa Logan on Marketing Open Source Effectively and Sustainably
November 17th, 2020 | 37 mins 27 secs
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Episode 60: Erik Rasmussen on the hard work of maintaining, marketing, and funding open source libraries
November 6th, 2020 | 30 mins 38 secs
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Episode 59: Jenn Schiffer on Satire, Coding, Why Teaching OSS Is Super Important
November 3rd, 2020 | 39 mins 13 secs
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Episode 58: Joel Wasserman on Flossbank and Sustainably Giving Back to Dependencies
October 16th, 2020 | 33 mins 20 secs
Our special guest today is Joel Wasserman, an Engineer at Google and Founder of Flossbank. If you’ve never heard of Flossbank, this is the episode you want to listen to. We learn all about what it is, how the method works, what makes it different from other donation models out there, and how signing up and donating works. We also find out if Joel has advertisers lined up and what the current state of Flossbank is since they are still working on the system.
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Episode 57: Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for Life
October 9th, 2020 | 38 mins 46 secs
Mikeal talks about Protocol Labs and his job as the IPLD Lead (InterPlanetary Linked Data). We will find out what happened when io.js forked with Node.js, if there is a difference between the Project Manager and Developer Role, and Mikeal’s interests in design libraries, and building a community and ecosystem from scratch and how they interrelate.
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Episode 56: Dominic Tarr on Coding What You Want, Living On A Boat, and the Early Days of Node.js
October 2nd, 2020 | 28 mins 1 sec
Dominic Tarr, an open source sailor hacker person, joins us from his boat in New Zealand. He’s been instrumental in the early JavaScript scene. Dominic tells us how he got into open source, coding, and how he got involved in JavaScript and Event Stream. We also learn about what Dominic is doing now and how he envisions open source going forward.
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Episode 55: André Staltz on Open Source Going to Zero and Developing Below The Poverty Line
September 25th, 2020 | 35 mins 36 secs
Our special guest today is André Staltz, a self-employed JavaScript wizard from Helsinki, Finland. He’s done a lot of interesting open source work and has been really instrumental in how open source funds individual developers. He tells us about his consulting job and about the great blog post he wrote. We will talk about the cost of software going to zero and what this means. Also, André tells us what he hopes to see in the future for open source. Download this episode now to find out all this and much more!