FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

Email solution.

Liam Breck joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly to discuss email of today. Given its role as a massively popular way to commit cybercrime, it's easy to see email as a problem that needs a solution. That's what Breck sees, and why he has created MNM Mail, which he calls "a legitimate email replacement: a client, a server, and a simple protocol between them... designed for everyone." In this episode Liam joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch, explaining how mnm works, why the world needs it, and how developers and business folk can join in to help improve it and drive adoption.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Liam Breck

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Freedesktop.org, X System.

Free software legend, Keith Packard, the prime mover behind the X Window System and Freedesktop.org joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. A range of topics are discussed including the controversy of Richard Stallman returning to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors. Packard also shares why it's important to get involved with hardware, working operating systems versus containers and even his rocketry hobby.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Keith Packard

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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Dries Buytaert

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Jeremy Ruston, creator and maintainer of TiddlyWiki, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly for a lively hour that goes by fast. It's so interesting as Ruston shares how he invented TiddlyWiki almost by accident, and how quickly every new use (and there is no limit to those) expanded the community and the code base with contributors and users all over the world working together to acquire what Jeremy calls "superpowers" of utility and creation.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Jeremy Ruston

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Kevin Lin and Dendron.

Kevin Lin joins Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman to talk about Dendron, a note-taking application built on top of VSCode. After many years of taking notes, Kevin found himself with a massive, unmanageable personal knowledge store. None of the existing note-taking applications quite solved his problem, so Kevin did the only reasonable thing, and wrote his own. On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, Lin covers some of his design decisions, including building Dendron on VSCode and Javascript, and helps us understand how Dendron can help tame the jungle of personal knowledge.

Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Kevin Lin

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Steve Klabnik joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about Rust. Rust, which was started at Mozilla, has grown to become one of the world's most relied-upon and fastest growing programming languages. Klabnik literally wrote the book on Rust. In the show, he visits how it differs from C++ and other alternatives, some of the many ways it is used, the large and familiar names (e.g. DropBox) that depend on it, the community culture around it, how open source and free software work are changing as we move toward a post-COVID world.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Steve Klabnik

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Open source business model.

How is open source utilized in the workplace? On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, veteran co-hosts Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of open source news in workplaces—both professional and personal. Topics include: open source business and business models; involvements of Google, Microsoft and IBM in making open source history; a Microsoft repository showing up in the Raspberry Pi Linux; hacking current and retro gear; open hardware, including open FPGAs and RISC-V; and much more.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Aaron Newcomb, and Jonathan Bennett

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Software Heritage is an extraordinary, yet necessary effort to save all the world's software in all its versions and generations for all time. This effort is to help make historical source code accessible to everyone, but this initiative does come with many challenges. Naturally, Software Heritage is started with open source code and principles. Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk in much length and depth on all of it, with founder & CEO Roberto Di Cosmo.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Roberto Di Cosmo

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Steve Seguin & open-source video conferencing.

Steve Seguin of OBS.Ninja joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb to discuss his exciting open source project. OBS Ninja gives you a peer-to-peer way to do video conferencing and much more via your browser as it features super-low latency and other tools to make your video conference experience better. The UI and performance qualities are so good, in fact, that we enjoyed using OBS Ninja to produce this week's episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Steve Seguin

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Openbase, Elastic vs AWS.

Matt Asay believes we need a new way to think about open source. This comes on the heels of the Elastic vs AWS controversy. Shawn Powers and new co-host Katherine Druckman join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of ethics and open source on FLOSS Weekly. The panel takes a look at three efforts currently making news: the Ethical Source Movement; Matt Asay's Infoworld post titled A New Way To Think About Open Source; and Openbase, which Venturebeat says "wants to be the Yelp for open source software packages."

Hosts: Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Katherine Druckman

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