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

  • Episode 166: Thomas Steenbergen & Josep Prat at FOSS Backstage 2023

    April 11th, 2023  |  46 mins 7 secs

    Thomas talks about OSS Review Toolkit and the three important aspects of open-source software. Josep shares the importance of diversity in open-source projects, and the Plankton program at Aiven for people who want to do contributions in their free time.

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    Episode 165: Hugi Ásgeirsson, Silona Bonewald & Marco Möller at State of Open Con 2023

    April 7th, 2023  |  50 mins 31 secs

    Hugi Ásgeirsson talks about the differences and benefits between Open Collective in the US vs Europe. Then our next guest, Silona, dives into DE&I at conferences and how IEEE and SA Open help with sustainability. Finally, Marco shares how open source is helping sustain our environment, via EV Charging solutions powered by Open Source.

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    Episode 164: Derek Kozel & Abby Cabunoc Mayes at State of Open Con 2023

    April 4th, 2023  |  33 mins 23 secs

    Derek talks about all the uses for GNU Radio and how a 22-year-old project gets effectively run and funded. Abigail shares about the importance of maintainers and GitHub's role in helping.

  • Episode 163: Ana Jiménez Santamaría & Samson Goddy at State of Open Con 2023

    March 31st, 2023  |  38 mins 24 secs

    Ana Jiménez Santamaría shares everything she’s been doing for the past few months as the OSPO Program Manager, what’s going on with the regional working groups, what OSPOlogy is, and how the TODO Group works. Samson Goddy gives us the details about OSCA and the OSCA Fest 2023 coming up in June and a great project called Chakra UI, created by a Nigerian maintainer, as well as a collection of open source projects on GitHub created by Nigerians.

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    Episode 162: Colin Eberhardt & Eriol Fox at State of Open Con 2023

    March 28th, 2023  |  36 mins 37 secs

    Colin tells us about what he learned about Confidential Computing, and his thoughts on open source being described as public good. We'll also hear from Eriol, who works at Superbloom about that branding change, what Superbloom does, and some cool things they’ve been working on there.

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    Episode 161: Aaron Crawfis on Dapr and Sustaining Cloud OSS

    March 24th, 2023  |  34 mins

    Aaron goes in depth about Dapr, Azure, and working in the cloud space. He tells us about the incubation space at Azure, and he shares some advice if you’re a project looking to get into this space.

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    Episode 160: Andy Piper, Ana Meta Dolinar & Gemma Penson at State of Open Con 2023

    March 21st, 2023  |  37 mins 49 secs

    Andy shares how he’s helping the OSI today and his thoughts on the Cyber Resilience Act. Ana Meta Dolinar and Gemma Penson talk about the Women @CL, how they’re helping to fix the huge gender imbalance when it comes to open source and computer science, and their thoughts on the “leaky pipeline” metaphor.

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    Episode 159: Dawn Foster & Andrew Nesbitt at State of Open Con 2023

    March 17th, 2023  |  38 mins 23 secs

    We’ll hear about Dawn’s responsibilities at VMWare, some great tools she uses, and the importance of mentoring the next wave of maintainers. Andrew talks about his history with 24 Pull Requests, Libraries.io, and Ecosyste.ms, his current project.

  • Episode 158: Ruth Cheesley & Mike Nolan at State of Open Con 2023

    March 10th, 2023  |  35 mins 9 secs

    Ruth talks about Mautic and what her job as the Project Lead entails, while Mike tells us why he’s at State of Open Con representing RIT and what separates university and industry OSPOs.

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    Episode 157: Joel Wasserman on lessons learned with Flossbank

    March 3rd, 2023  |  41 mins 56 secs

    Joel goes in-depth about what he learned about the open source ecosystem while building and running Flossbank, a dependency-funding tool that closed down last year.

  • Episode 156: Paul Berschick and FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin

    February 27th, 2023  |  5 mins 35 secs

    Paul comes on to talk about FOSS Backstage, an event about the non-code work in Open Source, in Berlin on March 13-14.

  • Episode 155: Yadira Sánchez Benítez on creating liberatory, pluriversal spaces in Open Source

    February 24th, 2023  |  40 mins 3 secs

    Yadira tells us about her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute, what open source means in community work, her work with other communities that have language barriers to get them more involved, and she talks about the importance of being aware of the privileges we hold in different spaces.