FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Drummond Reed

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When war over territory develops in the physical world, what happens to developers in the borderless networked one? Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett dive into that question, while also visiting other wartime tech topics, such as the new Universal Chiplet, exciting new device drivers and the first 300 Starlinks in Ukraine.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Katherine Druckman

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Matt Mullenweg, founder, CEO and president of Automattic, talks to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how WordPress—their main product and open source project—is the "dark matter of the Web." He also tells us what's up with Tumblr, Openverse, WooCommerce, the Gutenberg block editor, and other projects among the many the company is up to.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Matt Mullenweg

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Darrell O'Donnell of Continuum Loop tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how digital wallets will have to work in a world of self-sovereign identity (SSI) on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Digital wallets will have all the identity information you need, but with the ability to confine output to only what another party needs to know and nothing more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Darrell O'Donnell

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What does Jon "maddog" Hall—a man with 15,000 FLOSS-related t-shirts have to say? Lots about everything free, open and otherwise, in a conversation that occasionally turns to an argument between maddog, Simon Phipps, and host Doc Searls.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Jon "maddog" Hall

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Rob La Gesse, whose career spans business, military, politics and other fields, tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how inventive marketing helped make Rackspace a social media star while the company also teamed up with NASA and others on OpenStack, which is still helping grow the cloud business outside of Amazon.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Rob La Gesse

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Ramón Huidobro of CodeSee joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Open source is bigger and wilder than ever, which means onboarding talent to a project is a serious thing. And nobody knows more or better about onboarding than Huidobro of CodeSee, which visualizes dependencies and much more in your codebase. In this episode, Huidobro clues the FLOSS Weekly hosts and listeners into what's involved with visualizing codebases, bringing talent in, working as ensembles and much more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Ramón Huidobro

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Hackaday.com is what its new editor-in-chief, Elliot Williams, calls "a library of Alexandra for fugitive hacks"—and that's just one of the many deep and quotable things he shares with Doc Searls and co-host Jonathan Bennett, who is also a veteran Hackaday writer. Topics range from hackable gizmo and the hacker mindset, to how great open firmware hacks become bait for cool new hackable products coming out of China.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Elliott Williams

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Stefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out!

Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps

Guest: Stefano Maffulli

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Avery Pennarun of Tailscale and much more, blows the minds of Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on a can't-miss show that explains how the best development is all "chickens and eggs." Pennarun explains thatfree software and open source is the gifting nature of the former, and how startups succeed and fail at crossing chasms. All while touching on so much more that we now have a Part 2 of the discussion planned.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Avery Pennarun

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