web01.fireside.fm Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:47:12 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Sustain - Episodes Tagged with “Github” https://podcast.sustainoss.org/tags/github Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:00:00 -0400 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. 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They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products rather than libraries like these.</p> <h2>Links</h2> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://github.com/sponsors">GitHub Sponsors</a></p> </li> </ul> <h2>Picks</h2> <p><strong>Jon Schlinkert:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Eric Berry</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Eric Berry:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://metabase.com/">https://metabase.com/</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://tryshift.com/">https://tryshift.com/</a></p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Richard Littauer:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/momentum-generation">https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/momentum-generation</a></p> </li> </ul> <hr> github, open source, github sponsors Sponsors:

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  • Richard Littauer

  • Jon Schlinkert

  • Eric Berry

Episode Summary

The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products rather than libraries like these.

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  • Richard Littauer

  • Jon Schlinkert

  • Eric Berry

Episode Summary

The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products rather than libraries like these.

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Jon Schlinkert:

Eric Berry:

Richard Littauer:

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