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Paul Mutton of Netcraft gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman an hour of wisdom, experience and stories about items we can worry about less because he and Netcraft are on the case. If you care about cybercrime, phishing, malware, or any of the many vulnerabilities that afflict us all online, this episode of FLOSS Weekly is for you—especially if you operate web servers.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman
Guest: Paul Mutton
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Photographer Peter Adams joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. The Mount Rushmore of Open Source is Adams' "Faces of Open Source," which is 100 faces strong so far. Including the faces of Searls and Phipps. Adams talks about the project, plus the history and future of open source, blockchain and NFTs, his work as a journalist, historian, entrepreneur.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps
Guest: Peter Adams
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Silicon Valley technology veteran, Mary Hodder, joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly to talk open source in construction. Home construction is the original open-source field, and nobody knows more about making it work than Hodder. Where does open source fit in the world of construction and building codes? Hodder details it all on FLOSS Weekly.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb
Guest: Mary Hodder
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Can social media be decentralized? James Vasile of Open Tech Strategies and DSNP is working on several projects at once toward that goal. Vasile touches on these goals and much more including the fediverse, palgorithms (personal algorithms), advantages and limits of clouds and blockchains. It's a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett of FLOSS Weekly.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guest: James Vasile
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Daniel Maslowski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk about open firmware. Open firmware is an almost ironic term, especially for IP cameras, given the proprietary purposes of most manufacturers. There is a large and active community of code and developments around open firmware, led largely in part by Maslowski.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch
Guest: Daniel Maslowski
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Carl Richell, founder and CEO of System76 joins Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. He's been selling Linux laptops and desktops for years, and now leads the team behind the easy-to-use Pop!_OS One of his biggest fans, Leo Laporte, also joins the show. Open Firmware, what's new in the OS, and the perfect hardware for keyboard nerds and upcoming news for System 76 are part of the show discussions. Bennett finally gets the scoop behind the "Pop!_OS" name. A fun show with great discussions.
Hosts: Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Leo Laporte
Guest: Carl Richell
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Mike Schwartz of Gluu.org joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly. In a world where cloud native and containers are widely used, digital identity poses a critical challenge. No one person knows more about making digital ID work than Schwartz. Gluu is an open source option which offers secure authentication for both internal and external applications in the enterprise.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guest: Mike Schwartz
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Richard North was the dog that caught the bus when all of a sudden his open source project, Testcontainers, took off, and now has more than a million monthly downloads and developers using it at Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google and other settings large and small. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Richard about how he caught the bus he ended up driving, how he set up Testcontainers.org, stood up Atomicjar.com as a running business backed by smart capital, and put learnings to use through a six-year journey that includes a worldwide pandemic that is changing development for everyone.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch
Guest: Richard North
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Former Linux Journal editor in chief Don Marti, who Doc Searls calls the world's greatest living authority on online advertising, speaks with Doc and Katherine Druckman about the rapidly changing adtech world. How are companies big and small coping with those changes today? Marti also discusses the "stack of principal agents" problem, why privacy is a massive issue not just for individuals, but for companies with billions of dependents, such as Apple with its iPhone customers.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman
Guest: Don Marti
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Guy Martin has worked for everybody and done everything... or at least it seems that way. He also has 100% interesting, deep and knowing thoughts about important issues that have come up in his long career, especially in his current work in the standards world, running Oasis. All of that and more—IoT, standards +/vs open source, substitutability, multiple ecosystems—are on stage for a fact and thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Guy's old friend and colleague Simon Phipps.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps
Guest: Guy Martin
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
From the publisher's feed
We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.
Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.

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