Justifying the value of upstream work is often hard. Being involved in open source projects tends to fall short when competing with product deadlines and priorities.

In this MOSE Short, Allison Randal and Ildiko talk about the debates on how much time developers should spend contributing to open source projects versus working on their company's proprietary solutions, and weigh different options from full-time allocation to part-time upstream work. The group also discusses strategies of harmonizing upstream and product development work and priorities, the importance of sharing updates within the company about the open source project, like upcoming releases, important bug fixes, and more, and continuously showing the value of upstream involvement.

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Knowing who, and more importantly how they are using the open source project that you're working on is not just interesting, but also very important. This helps the community to evolve and strengthen the project and keep the ecosystem growing along with making it long living. Also, in most cases, people will use your project in a way you would've never imagined!

In this MOSE Short, Jim Hall talks about how the FreeDOS use cases evolved over the years, including academic usage, hobbyists, a railway communication system, and booting an IBM PC 5150 from a vinyl record!

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Engaging in conversatins on public forums and communication channels can be hard, especially if you are new to the open source ecosystem. Why would you talk to someone on the public mailing list about a specific topic, when you can reach out to the person directly? How to phrase a message that anyone in the world can read? How can a community help establish contributors and newcomers to navigate the various communication channels in an open, welcoming and efficient way?

In this MOSE Short segment, Jim Hall and Phil Robb talk about the communication challenges within open source communities, and Jim shares the principles that the FreeDOS community has been following for 30 years and counting.

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In this season finale episode of the My Open Source Experience Podcast, Ildiko talks about the original idea and motivation to create the podcast, reflects back on the season and goes through highlights of every episode. She also shares the outcomes of an exercise she and Phil have with every guest on the show.

Stay tuned for Season 2!

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In this episode of the My Open Source Experience Podcast, Ildiko and Phil are chatting with Aeva Black. The group is discussing a very important topic, security in open source. Recent attacks have shed some light on security challenges not just in open source, but also in the software supply chain overall, which open source communities, corporate organizations and even governments started to look into to address. This episode goes into details on challenges, recent attacks like the XZ Backdoor incident, the state of the ecosystem related to security, good practices and more!

OmniBOR project - https://omnibor.io

Lessons from XZ Utils: Achieving a More Sustainable Open Source Ecosystem (CISA Blog) - https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/lessons-xz-utils-achieving-more-sustainable-open-source-ecosystem

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