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 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.
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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.