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The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
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The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job

14:30

Nov 20, 2019

SOS 016: Changing Open Source Culture With Serkan Holat
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SOS 016: Changing Open Source Culture With Serkan Holat

Serkan is a freelance software developer who has been developing web applications since 2001. Lately he has been working with Angular and ASP.NET. He shares that he has been studying sustainability of open source issues since 2014 and also shares the abridged version of how he came to be involved with the open source community. Richard then asks Serkan to share more details on how he as a developer became interested in open source.

55:24

Oct 29, 2019

SOS 015: Open Source Leadership With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
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SOS 015: Open Source Leadership With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

This episode of Sustain our Software features Abigail Cabunoc Mayes. Abigail has a background in bioinformatics and computer science and has an interest in using computers to solve problems in biology. She works for the Mozilla Foundation where she is a practice lead working Open. She has been named in “100 Awesome Women in Open source” and mentioned in Github’s State of the Octoverse 2016. Abigail begins by sharing some of how she got started and what interests her in technology. The discussion then moves to altmetrics and how Abigail helps people publish code and get recognition for their work.

46:40

Oct 22, 2019

SOS 014: Funding Open Source With Gitcoin
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SOS 014: Funding Open Source With Gitcoin

The special guest for this episode of Sustain our Software is Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin, a service that links up freelance developers with people who need them and pays these developers in crypto currency. Gitcoin is a blockchain forward brand that is built on open source software and currently uses Ethereum as its crypto currency of choice rather than creating their own. They like Ethereum because of its relevance as the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency at the time of this episode. By incentivizing open source contributions, Gitcoin has become an important contributor to the funding of open source software.

1:04:46

Oct 15, 2019

SOS 013: Elevating Musicians Through Open Source with Robert Kaye
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SOS 013: Elevating Musicians Through Open Source with Robert Kaye

Robert Kaye is the executive director of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the legal umbrella for MusicBrainz. He got started in the late 80’s and early 90’s hacking on some MP3 projects when most of the world hadn’t heard of MP3. The metadata on MP3s was terrible, so he started creating the database known as MusicBrainz.

52:07

Oct 08, 2019

SOS 012: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls
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SOS 012: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls

In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub.

48:36

Oct 01, 2019

SOS 011: Diversity in Open Source with Laura Gaetano
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SOS 011: Diversity in Open Source with Laura Gaetano

In this week’s episode of Sustain Our Software the panel interviews Laura Gaetano. Laura is a developer and designer, whose main job was running was running Rails Girls Summer of Code. The panel considers how great Rails Girls is and all that they are doing. The panel also expresses their love for the Rails framework.

49:48

Sep 24, 2019

SOS 010: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer
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SOS 010: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer

In this week's episode of Sustain Our software Titus Wormer joins the panel to discuss his experience maintaining Unified.js. Titus is built Unified and is working fulltime maintain Unified. He has a bachelor's in digital design and did his thesis on fixing natural language in wed design using syntax trees.

48:17

Sep 17, 2019

SOS 009: The Trade-Offs of Using Opensource with Lou Huang
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SOS 009: The Trade-Offs of Using Opensource with Lou Huang

The panel interviews Lou Huang, who has a background in architecture and urban planning. Lou built an opensource app called Streetmix and uses it to help the panel understand opensource projects from a user's perspective. Lou starts by sharing his background, how he got into opensource and his work making Streetmix sustainable.

54:26

Sep 10, 2019

SOS 008: Writing Good Documentation with Chris Ward
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SOS 008: Writing Good Documentation with Chris Ward

This week, Sustain Our Software welcomes Chris Ward, Technical Writer at Ethereum from Berlin, Germany. Chris shares his story of how he became a technical writer as well tips and resources for good documentation writing.

53:05

Sep 03, 2019

SOS 007: Sustaining Open Source Projects in the International Development and Humanitarian Sector with Heath Arensen
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SOS 007: Sustaining Open Source Projects in the International Development and Humanitarian Sector with Heath Arensen

Heath Arensen is the Director of Business Planning and Sustainability at the Digital Impact Alliance's Open Source Center. He also supports Open Source projects with consulting and advising in Business Models for sustainability.

48:22

Aug 27, 2019

SOS 006: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry
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SOS 006: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry

Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs. Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her with her thesis.

49:31

Aug 19, 2019

SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui
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SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui

Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences. He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS protocol.

58:07

Aug 13, 2019

SOS 004:  Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta
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SOS 004: Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta

Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open-source software learning platform for children.

54:16

Aug 06, 2019

SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative
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SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative

Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dilemmas developers are facing in open source software maintenance resembles some of the dilemmas dealt with in common resources management. The panel then talks about what principles or rules should be defined for using open source software resources by taking cues from the common resources management guidelines.

1:08:02

Aug 06, 2019

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