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  • Episode 35: Why The Drupal Community Cares with Rachel Lawson
    Sponsored By:
    Panelists

    Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Richard Littauer

    Guest

    Rachel Lawson

    Drupal Association

    Show Notes

    In this episode, we have Rachel Lawson, from the U.K., who is the Community Liaison for Drupal Association. She is going to tell you all about the Drupal Association, what role she plays, and what she does. Since DrupalCon has been canceled due to COVID-19, there are some major things going on with sponsors that are still contributing money, the founder of Drupal making an unbelievable donation, as well as some other campaigns and match donations happening!

    [00:01:08] Rachel explains about working with Drupal in the U.K. and also talks about how many people are using Drupal to power their websites.

    [00:02:50] Justin has noticed that Drupal has a very big adoption within government, and he wonders why is that? Is it a security thing? Rachel answers this.

    [00:04:14] Rachel tells us how Drupal gets paid as an open source product. She also talks about what’s been going on since DrupalCon has been canceled in May.

    [00:10:37] There is a list of sponsors that are still contributing money to Drupal, despite the event being canceled, and a HUGE SHOUT OUT is necessary to them, so please see the list below! ☺

    [00:012:01] The Founder of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, made an unbelievable donation and Rachel talks about what it was and how it affected everything. It is AMAZING!! There have been some other match donations mentioned as well.

    [00:16:16] Governance is brought up by Gunner and he wants to know the civilian’s version of how governance at Drupal works and how the decision-making works that others could learn from and Rachel explains.

    [00:23:00] Rachel explains her role with Drupal and what she does.

    [00:25:00] How does someone join the Drupal open source community and how does Drupal capture all the contributors, not just the Devs? Rachel explains.

    Spotlight
    • [00:33:01] Justin’s spotlight is The Ruby Blend Podcast-Episode 9. Listen to it!
    • [00:33:49] Gunner has two spotlights: Qubes OS and Subgraph OS and the Tails Project (tails.boum.org).
    • [00:34:39] Richard’s spotlight is the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).
    • [00:35:33] Rachel has two spotlights: A pub in Leeds, Yorkshire where she was attending a Drupal event. It made her reflect back to being there before and how much it changed her life. Also, OS FEST in Lagos, Nigeria, that she recently attended. It was a huge experience for her and truly incredible.
    • Quotes

      [00:20:54] “We’ve been going through a process at Drupal association about raising money and we have a campaign on at the moment called Drupal cares (#DrupalCares) and you will notice there is quite a lot going on with that.”

      [00:23:33] “If just downloading Drupal or downloading any open source projects isn’t enough, you need the services around it, the support around it, regular security updates so where you can work on new code and have thousands and thousands of thousands of continuous integration tests run every time you say, “Hey, I propose that we do this new thing in Drupal!”

      [00:25:18] “Do you want to give a shout out to those sponsors that have done that because that warmed my heart! You know, the sponsors that said, keep our money, we believe in the project, we know we won’t get any real value out of the event not being alive. Please, give them some props.” (They are listed below.) 👇

      [00:40:41] “I said look, if you’re going to do this, call it a Community Liaison. It’s a liaison between the wider Drupal community and project and the Drupal Association. It was later on and I said all those things and I’m actually quite fond of the job now!”

      [00:42:13] “The single most important thing we changed was that getting attribution for work doesn’t just apply to code. We celebrate, we recognize, and we attribute work for all different reasons. If there is one thing we have done that has transformed Drupal into a wider thing than just a piece of software, it’s that.”

      Links

      Rachel Lawson Twitter

      Drupal

      The Ruby Blend Podcast-Episode 9

      Qubes OS

      Subgraph OS

      Tails

      EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

      OS Fest, Lagos Nigeria

      DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 Sponsors:

      Pantheon

      Acquia

      Phase2 Technology

      Mediacurrent Interactive Solutions

      Tag1

      Platform Sh

      Elevated Third

      FFW

      Amazee Group

      Palantir

      Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd

      Acro Media Inc

      Contegix

      Four Kitchens

      Last Call Media

      Lullabot

      Gatsby

      Chromatic, LLC

      Third and Grove

      Chapter Three

      Hook 42

      Lemberg Solutions Limited

      AnyforSoft

      Electric Citizen

      Kanopi Studios

      QED42

      Drupal Association #DrupalCares Match Challenge

      Credits
      • Produced by Justin Dorfman at CodeFund
      • Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
      • Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound
      • Ad Sales by Eric Berry at CodeFund
      • Special Guest: Rachel Lawson.

        Sponsored By:

        • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
        Promo Code: sustain2020
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        38 min
      • Episode 34: Staying Hum-Babel with Henry Zhu
        Sponsored By:
        Panelists

        Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer

        Guest

        Henry Zhu

        Babel

        Show Notes

        [00:01:30] Henry explains how he got involved in Babel and how it’s funded.

        [00:03:18] Eric wonders if Henry wishes he could just step away and just cut ties with it and go do something completely different and how tight is he with this project. He gives a great answer to this!

        [00:04:39] Pia was wondering if Henry’s relationship with the project itself or his view with Babel changed since he started working full time there. In the beginning, Henry started this as a side job while he worked at Adobe.

        [00:08:06] Since a lot of maintainers may get to a point in their lives where the issues stack up, but not putting into perspective how big this project is, Justin asks Henry how he deals with this since this is such a huge project and he explains.

        [00:011:18] Justin wonders how Henry deals with Devs that are coming in and just saying, “Fix it, now,” and hit and run issues.

        [00:13:06] Henry talks about how as maintainers view each other as extremes. He brings up the quote from “The Dark Knight” as a reference to what he talks about.

        [00:15:10] Henry mentioned earlier about how Open Source communities could look at faith communities, religion, or church communities. Pia wonders if he has anything in mind from his experience that he wants to share, which he does.

        [00:20:14] Justin makes a right turn and wants Henry to go into his involvement with TC39 and how it helps him, Babel, and the sustainability with the JavaScript language as a whole. Also, he talks about what he’s accomplished since he joined.

        [00:24:57] Justin asks Henry about travel expenses and if anyone pays for them.

        [00:26:42] Pia brings up some good points about how we can learn how to heal and support ourselves during these troubling times. She wonders if Henry knows any ways that the community is supporting each other and where can we best spend our time and energy helping the members of our community going through what we’re all going through now.

        Spotlight
        • [00:34:56] Richard’s spotlight is “Hope in Source” podcast.
        • [00:35:03] Justin’s spotlight is openfoodnetwork.org.
        • [00:35:38] Pia’s spotlight is mutualaid.nyc.
        • [00:36:07] Richard has another spotlight which is Gary Snyder’s poetry.
        • [00:36:50] Henry’s spotlight is his favorite gospel, which is Mark.
        • Quotes

          [00:14:04] “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.”

          Links

          Henry Zhu’s Twitter

          Henry’s Zoo

          “Hope In Source” podcast

          Babel

          Maintainers Anonymous

          TC39

          Open Food Network

          Mutual Aid NYC

          Gary Snyder

          Credits
          • Produced by Justin Dorfman at CodeFund
          • Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
          • Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound
          • Ad Sales by Eric Berry at CodeFund
          • Special Guest: Henry Zhu.

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            38 min
          • Episode 33: Getting Money for Awesome Icons with Dave Gandy
            Sponsored By:
            Panelists

            Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer

            Guest

            Dave Gandy

            Font Awesome Founder | CEO Fonticons, Inc.

            Show Notes

            If you’ve never heard of Font Awesome, or even if you have, this episode is worth taking a listen to. Our special guest today is Dave Gandy, who is one of the main people behind Font Awesome. He has some super inspiring advice that we all could use right now with everything going on in the world. On a funny note, which way is the best way to hang toilet paper? There is a fascinating conversation on TP that you don’t want to miss. 😂

            02:33 Dave talks about what Font Awesome released to help out with COVID-19 awareness and they are ALL Open Sourced.

            04:55 It’s been eight years since Font Awesome has been around, and Dave talks about the story behind it and how it gets money for icons.

            08:31 Dave explains the process and the response from transitioning to being free to now asking for money. It all came down to what kind of company they wanted to build.

            11:30 Richard wonders how Dave pitches all his ideas to investors and he has some great stories to tell.

            016:38 Justin wonders how Font Awesome pays their Angel Investors back and is there an exit they are looking for or has he already paid them back?

            21:17 Dave talks about how Kickstarter raised 1.076 million dollars which is still a record of most raised and backed by a software Kickstarter. The guys were all backers to it.

            24:53 Expectations for the Kickstarter for Font Awesome is discussed and Dave goes into how the video is made.

            33:41 Is Font Awesome one of those Cinderella stories or one of those unicorn projects that are likely to be reproduced? Can somebody else be the next Font Awesome? Dave has some great advice and so much inspiration to share that we could all use.

            Spotlight
            • 37:04 Richard’s spotlight is a book called, “War of Art,” by Steven Pressfield.
            • 37:25 Eric’s spotlight is a project website called, helpwithcovid.com.
            • 38:18 Justin’s spotlight is to Google, “Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter Video.”
            • 39:34 Dave’s spotlight is a book series, “Mistborn Trilogy,” by Brandon Sanderson.
            • Quotes

              22:39 “It turns out all of that failure was actually not failure, because all of those things we had done leading up to it, ended up being tremendous assets when it came time for Kickstarter.”

              23:36 “No matter how good your intuition is on the first version of a product, the only way to get better is to talk to customers.”

              34:02 “Everything is impossible until it’s done and then it was always inevitable.”

              34:13 “When you believe before you start something that you can’t do it, you will always be right. No matter what, you’ll always be right!”

              34:35 “If we don’t have faith in something that doesn’t exist, it can’t come into existence, until you believe that something could become real that doesn’t exist yet, it can’t.”

              Links

              Dave Gandy Twitter

              “The War of Art”

              Helpwithcovid.com

              Font Awesome 5 Kickstart

              “Mistborn Trilogy”

              Credits
              • Produced by Justin Dorfman at CodeFund
              • Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
              • Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound
              • Ad Sales by Eric Berry at CodeFund
              • Special Guest: Dave Gandy.

                Sponsored By:

                • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                Promo Code: sustain2020
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                43 min
              • Episode 32: What FOSS Responders Does with Megan Sanicki & Duane O’Brien
                Sponsored By:
                Panelists

                Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer

                Guests

                Megan Sanicki

                Open Source Program Office at Google

                Duane O’Brien

                Head of Open Source at Indeed

                Show Notes

                This is a continuation of our mini COVID-19 coverage series podcast. Today, we have special guests, Megan Byrd-Sanicki and Duane O’Brien, who are FOSS Responders. We are talking about how does the Open Source Ecosystem deal with this and how do we, as Open Source Developes think about this, and how do members feel that can’t host their conferences. Also, listen here to find out why you should check your oxygen tank!

                [00:01:29] Duane explains what FOSS Responders does.

                [00:03:30] Megan explains how FOSS Responders has grown and what’s happening now.

                [00:05:50] Richard wants to know why does it matter to open source developers if events are canceled? Aren’t they just for large corporations anyway?

                [00:10:53] Justin wants to know if Duane and Megan have been in touch with organizations such as, Python Software Foundation, since they rely heavily on the income from their yearly conference, PIConf, which is now canceled.

                [00:014:38] Duane talks Mozilla. He mentions a program called MOSS (Mozilla Open Source Support) and they put together a COVID-19 solution fund geared to providing awards to Open Source technology projects that are responding to the pandemic.

                [00:18:38] Duane and Megan talk about the “Buddy System” that they use a lot. It’s all about supporting each other and sharing talents.

                [00:21:43] Megan and Duane give some AWESOME advice to close out the podcast. Remember, keep checking your oxygen tank!

                Quotes

                [00:8:28] “If we want them to continue to be sustainable, if we want the organizations that run them to continue to be sustainable, then we need to take some kind of action and respond in the opposite.”

                [00:09:02] “These are the events that are accelerators, and they do it in a very structured way, but in a very serendipitous way too.”

                [00:21:43] “The biggest learning is to check your oxygen tank. Sustainability really starts with yourself and how well you’re sustaining yourself through this time.”

                Links

                Megan Sanicki Twitter

                Duane O’Brien Twitter

                FOSS Responders

                Open Collective's Slack

                SustainOSS Forum

                Special Guests: Duane O’Brien and Megan Sanicki.

                Sponsored By:

                • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                Promo Code: sustain2020
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                26 min
              • Episode 31: Practicing Self-Empathy with Whitney Hess
                Sponsored By:
                Panelists

                Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry | Richard Littauer

                Guest

                Whitney Hess

                Executive Coach

                Show Notes

                Whitney Hess is the special guest today. She is an Executive Coach, supporting business leaders of various kinds to help them be the best version of themselves. With COVID-19 happening right now it’s affecting everyone. People are stressed, overwhelmed, emotional, anxious, and have a whole rollercoaster of emotions. Remember, we are all human and you are not alone. And, if you’ve never meditated, you will want to after listening to this episode.

                01:21 Whitney clarifies what an Executive Coach is and what she does. She also explains how she differentiates from a Life Coach.

                03:00 To cut to the chase, Richard wonders how COVID-19 has affected her business and how has it affected the way she helps people during this time.

                05:35 On the brighter side of things, Whitney talks about how people are able to work on legacy code because their companies aren’t as in demand and they can do various things that they’ve been putting off.

                06:50 Justin wants to know if maintainers would get a lot of value out of Whitney’s management coaching, especially helping FOSS Responders who are dealing with COVID-19.

                12:34 “Empathy” is discussed in depth. There is a misconception about empathy and Whitney also explains self-empathy.

                15:59 Eric has a question about persona, and he wonders if there is a mother and a maintainer and she’s really stressed, has to feed her kids, teach them, maintain open source and she doesn’t have time to walk away from her computer, what advice does Whitney have for that sort of person. Let’s say “meditation” is talked about, and reprioritizing and re-evaluating our values.

                22:37 Richard talks about how one night he hit rock bottom emotionally and physically and what he did to make himself happy. Justin talks about how he was feeling fatigued by everything happening with work and what’s happening in the world and what he did to feel mentally separated and enjoy himself.

                25:27 Whitney stresses how especially now, we need to allow ourselves moments of joy. Try to find a little bit of space to allow ourselves to be happy in that moment. She goes more into this with some very uplifting advice.

                Quotes

                12:48 “I think a misconception about empathy is that it’s all about what we give to others, when in actuality it starts with what we give to ourselves.”

                14:28 “You need to put your oxygen mask on first before you help others!”

                17:17 “If you don’t have time to meditate once a day, meditate twice a day!”

                Links

                Whitney Hess

                Whitney Hess Twitter

                Whitney Hess Blog

                “My Neighbor Totoro”

                Special Guest: Whitney Hess.

                Sponsored By:

                • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                Promo Code: sustain2020
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                31 min
              • Episode 30: Silver Linings in The FOSS Community
                Sponsored By:
                Panelists

                Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry

                Show Notes

                COVID-19 is the main focus today and how it is ripping through the open source ecosystem. Although you may be tired of listening to it, the guys get real and speak from the heart and talk about the affects it is having on people all over the country, especially maintainers and coders. The message here is, “BE KIND TODAY!”

                02:37 Justin talks about keeping busy with SustainOSS stuff and he’s been listening to an Audible book called, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work,” which has changed his perception on how to work smart and not hard.

                03:49 Richard chimes in about he’s been working on a lot of projects and since COVID-19 started in the US he’s been involved in a project called FOSS Responders, which is Free and Open Source Responders and he explains what it does.

                04:55 Richard gives an update on what FOSS Responder’s did this week.

                06:27 Eric joins in to say that he runs CodeFund with Justin and how it allows them to display ethical non-tracking ads to developers all over the world. Find out what happened in THREE DAYS after they launched a FOSS Responders campaign.

                08:04 Eric talks about his friend who did an amazing thing with his business and it’s pretty cool! This gets him thinking about Open Source, developers, and us as people and how each of us has a talent to maybe donate or allow use of something to support people to give back to the community.

                15:31 Justin’s been trying to find silver linings in everything these days, especially with FOSS Responders. Richard brings up helping at helpwithcovid.com and opencollective.com.

                17:08 Richard speaks from the heart about his silver lining. He is more connected then he was a month ago. Listen to hear what he’s been doing about connecting with friends.

                18:05 Eric talks about struggles he has been having as well as other people may be having right now, with their jobs, figuring out a way to homeschool their kids, and keeping everybody heathy and happy while doing their jobs. He also talks about his silver lining which is really knowing to him what is important.

                Links

                Help With COVID

                Open Collective

                “It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work.”-Audible Book

                FOSS Responders

                GitHub COVID-19

                Sponsored By:

                • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                Promo Code: sustain2020

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                24 min
              • Episode 29: How License Zero Works with Kyle Mitchell
                Sponsored By:
                Panelists

                Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Eric Berry | Allen “Gunner” Gunn

                Guest

                Kyle E. Mitchell

                Attorney, License Zero

                Show Notes

                Kyle E. Mitchell is an independent Attorney based in California. Today we talk to him about Open Source subjects such as “License Zero.” He delves into the types of licenses there are, what are their differences, and how they came about. Also, be sure to check out this week’s spotlights for ways to help out during the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak.

                1:42 Richard ask Kyle about his blog post about License Zero, aka dual licensing, selling exceptions, or public/private licensing. What it is, what it does, and how Dev’s get paid for their creative work.

                03:14 Kyle explains that License Zero has two types of licenses, public, which is not open source and the other is parity.

                06:55 Kyle talks about how License Zero started out with one licensing choice. It was similar to the Creative Commons license used for stock photos, music, etc.

                10:24 Kyle reveals how he needed to create a new license for License Zero, a share-alike license that would help cover Dev’s work they were creating.

                14:13 Pia asks about projects that he’s had experience using this license with, and lessons he’s learned.

                21:00 Pia wants to know if License Zero is creating complexity in the Open Source world by having different licenses. Is this making it more difficult for people to navigate and understand what they can and can’t do with those licenses? Kyle goes into License Proliferation.

                26:32 Richard brings up one of Kyle’s blog posts about the “curse of sustainability” and how it’s impossible to fix the open source problem.

                33:04 So far, we’ve mainly talked about the “what” of licensing. Gunner wants Kyle to go into the “who” of licensing. Does he think of persona’s in the licensing world?

                Spotlight
                • 41:15 Pia’s spotlight is the collective “Meals of Gratitude”, which sends meals to health workers.
                • 41:52 Richard’s spotlight is FOSS Responders, which helps Open Source Developers and Open Source Projects during this COVID-19 crisis.
                • 42:32 Kyle piggybacks Richard’s spotlight with Bandcamp Daily, which is also helping out music artist during COVID-19.
                • 43:51 Gunner spotlights Indeed’s Head of Open Source, Duane O’Brien, who spearheaded the FOSS Responders movement.
                • 45:16 Kyle chimes in with one more quick spotlight...Nick Craig-Wood’s Rclone library.
                • Quotes

                  06:03 “And this idea that Open Source is a licensing question, first and foremost, and then that’s the whole question is wrong.”

                  44:14 “The thing I’m amazed with Duane is that he’s spun up this FOSS Responders project, he’s holding so many different communities with integrity, and he’s doing his job for Indeed. But he’s walking just 100% of what I consider to be free and Open source integrity.”

                  44:28 “He’s really being mindful of different communities and their different cultures. And in this time of crisis we need cloning to get done, so with Duane’s opt-in permission, we could have more Duane’s in this world. I feel like he is setting an example we all need to follow.”

                  Links

                  Kyle E. Mitchell Twitter

                  Kyle E. Mitchell Writings

                  Kyle E. Mitchell Website

                  Kyle E. Mitchell GitHub

                  License Zero

                  License Zero-Private License

                  License Zero-Prosperity Public License

                  License Zero-Parity Public License

                  Creative Commons License

                  The Curse of Sustainability

                  Fernando Pessoa

                  Open Collective-Meals of Gratitude

                  FOSS Responders

                  Bandcamp Daily

                  Duane O’Brien Twitter

                  Nick Craig-Wood RClone Library

                  Special Guest: Kyle E. Mitchell.

                  Sponsored By:

                  • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                  Promo Code: sustain2020

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                  48 min
                • Episode 28: What "OpenStreetMap US" is with Maggie Cawley & Alyssa Wright
                  Sponsored By:
                  #28 Cover art uses imagery by [Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team](https://www.hotosm.org/) © [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
                  Panelists

                  Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer

                  Guest

                  Maggie Cawley

                  OpenStreetMap US

                  Alyssa Wright

                  OpenStreetMap US | Open Source Collective

                  Show Notes

                  In this episode Justin and Richard talk with Maggie Cawley, Executive Director of the American OpenStreetMap US and Alyssa Wright, current Board Member of OpenStreetMap US. If you’ve never heard of OpenStreetMap US you will learn all about what it is, how you can use it, how you can edit it (YES, it’s editable like Wikipedia), and how it differs from Google Maps.

                  1:40** What is OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap US? How are they different? The ladies also share how many people are all together in the OpenStreetMap world in their biosphere and how many contributing editors there are.

                  04:41 Justin wonders how the map data is licensed and was it a hard sell to the community or an easy one?

                  08:24 OSMF and OSM US are slighty different. Richard is interested to know what Maggie and Alyssa are doing for each one and how do they see them growing.

                  10:43 Richard wants to know the Code of Conduct and was questioning if it was just started or did it change.

                  12:40 Justin wants to know what percentage Craig, from Craigslist, give to their annual budget. Also, regarding sustainability, the discussion of what it costs to run OpenStreetMap as a service is answered.

                  13:34 Maggie talks about who is involved in their membership which is made of many different people.

                  17:00 Richard wonders if anything is difficult now and what does sustainability look like and if there are any problems. The ladies talk about all the challenges there have been.

                  23:09 Why would people use OSM vs. Google Maps? Empowerment is a big factor with OSM.

                  27:18 Justin wonders how Maggie and Alyssa deal with possible misinformation from bad edits, especially with the earthquakes or tornados or if there have been any issues.

                  32:04 The ladies answer some questions from Richard regarding what sustainability means for OSM and how do you make sure everyone is working on the same product, doing it with the same intention, but with the same sort of guidance.

                  Quotes

                  05:43 “ODbL, it’s a unique license.”

                  15:15 “I always point to my phone, it’s like, you know, this is essentially a map that we’re carrying around with us constantly and whether we’re talking about data privacy in our location, movement, or crime statistics or this Coronavirus, this is grounded in space, and we’re grounded in space.”

                  21:08 “Billions of people in this world do not have an address. So, without an address that means you don’t have a legal right to your land.”

                  23:17 “It’s very well known that Google is going to map where they have commercial interest.”

                  Spotlight
                  • 34:07 Justin’s spotlight this week is Dracula PRO-Episode 27.
                  • 34:40 Richard’s spotlight is Leaflet JS.
                  • 34:57 Maggie’s spotlight is QGIS project.
                  • 35:17 Alyssa’s spotlight is PostGIS community.
                  • Links

                    Maggie Cawley Twitter

                    Alyssa Wright Twitter

                    State of the Map U.S. Conference

                    Craigslist Charitable Fund Donation

                    OpenStreetMap.US

                    OpenStreetMap.org

                    OpenStreetMap on Slack

                    QGIS

                    PostGIS

                    TeachOSM

                    Dracula Pro-Episode27

                    Leaflet JS

                    Special Guests: Alyssa Wright and Maggie Cawley.

                    Sponsored By:

                    • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                    Promo Code: sustain2020

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                    38 min
                  • Episode 27: Creating Dracula PRO with Blood, Sweat, and Tears with Zeno Rocha
                    Sponsored By:
                    Panelists

                    Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Eric Berry

                    Guest

                    Zeno Rocha

                    Liferay Cloud | Dracula Pro

                    Show Notes

                    In this episode we talk with Zeno Rocha. He is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division. He is responsible for crafting the product strategy, shaping the features, and defining the future of DXP Cloud. Zeno also created the popular Dracula theme. We talk about the success of clipboard.js, Dracula theme, and the importance not just creating the code, but promoting is as well.

                    2:38 Zeno talks about how he started out as an Open Source developer. He also explains what the developer scene is like in Brazil.

                    05:15 Zeno has spoken at over 110 conferences now and Richard is interested to know why he has this drive to get more views and work on social problems.

                    9:54 Zeno explains how he got involved in Dracula Theme and clipboard.js. Let’s just say there are 28,000 stars.

                    11:54 Zeno gets into the importance of promoting libraries that we create. If you want to reach and help more people. We as a group need to promote! He discusses what he did to promote his stuff.

                    15:45 One of the guys asked Zeno how did he get from zero to 5,000 stars overnight. He explains it’s not because of Hacker News but from something else.

                    18:20 Zeno talks about his design capabilities with Dracula. He says he’s not a designer or a marketeer.

                    20:18 Justin mentions about how he founded a project called BootstrapCDN and how an influencer helped shoot the usage up in one night.

                    22:54 Richard wonders how Zeno chooses his projects and how does he plan to have projects live beyond him, in terms of Dracula, which is a theming project that has grown beyond him. Zeno explains a hospital stay and a stolen computer is involved in this, so listen on.

                    30:34 Richard is curious about Dracula Pro and that it’s monetized but how does it work. Zeno answers this talking about dark mode and a keyboard that was crated for Dracula that had record sales.

                    32:57 Zeno reaches a point where he says he needs to learn about sales to make money. He finds a book that he reads that taught his some very interesting lessons.

                    Quotes

                    07:14 “If you really want to learn something you have to teach it.”

                    08:10 “If I learn that one framework and learn that one language, then I am going to be successful.”

                    12:07 “If you want to get traction, if you want to reach more people…then you have to spend time promoting to others.

                    22:36 “Teach first, be welcoming first, communicate 10 times more than you code.”

                    30:56 “Typically I never monetize my work.”

                    39:49 “Email is not dead. Whoever says that never sent a newsletter. It works.”

                    Spotlight
                    • 41:07 Justin’s spotlight this week is SHML.xyz (shell markup language)
                    • 41:49 Eric’s spotlight is Thoughtbot. Go on github.com/thoughtbot/laptop also a subscription to Dracula Pro, found on Draculatheme.com.
                    • 43:41 Richard’s spotlight is Caigmod.com (a newsletter).
                    • 44:30 Zeno’s spotlight is HTML5 Boilerplate.
                    • Links

                      Zeno Rocha

                      Zeno Rocha Twitter

                      Zeno Rocha Linkedin

                      Zeno Rocha GitHub

                      Dracula Theme

                      GitHub/Alfred Workflows

                      Launch: An Internet Millionaire’s Secret Formula TO Sell Almost Anything Online, Build A Business You Love, And Live The Life Of Your Dreams.

                      SHML.xyz

                      Thoughtbot

                      Craigmod.com

                      HTML5 Boilerplate

                      GitHub: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?

                      Hacker News-Modern Copy to Clipboard

                      Special Guest: Zeno Rocha.

                      Sponsored By:

                      • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                      Promo Code: sustain2020

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                    • Episode 26: The Data Behind Open Source is CHAOSS with Georg Link
                      Sponsored By:
                      Panelists

                      Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman

                      Guest

                      Georg Link

                      Bitergia | CHAOSS

                      Show Notes

                      In this episode we talk with Georg Link, an Open Source Strategist. He is Director of Sales for Bitergia and Co-Founder, Governing Board Member of the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project. He’s a native of Germany, but currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska.

                      04:21 Georg explains how he spent his last five years as he joined the PhD program, how he dove into Open Source, and his research focus.

                      5:25 The topic of metrics is discussed for Open Source.

                      07:52 The roots of the CHAOSS Project is explained and how it started at the Open Source Leadership Summit in 2017.

                      10:36 The topic of Red Hat’s contribution to Prospector as part of Project CHAOSS is explained and how it took the approach of taking metrics and providing an interface for analysis.

                      11:55 A question was posed to Georg about his perspective of his view when he started getting into the data behind Open Source and what kind of revelations he had.

                      15:29 One of the guys wants to know what Georg’s expectations are of these projects when they use metrics outlined and what will they do with it.

                      19:09 Georg talks about the two main reasons why he sees the metrics being implemented.

                      19:26 Justin brings up how Drupal does a comprehensive state of their community once a year and how they really go into metrics and Richard wants to know what metrics we have, and Georg expands on this topic.

                      22:26 Georg shares checking out CHAOSS.community/metrics to see shared metrics.

                      25:10 Richard wants to know how people who are not in an OSPO, who have a project, or are solo maintainers, or a team of people working on a project, how can they use these metrics to make their code better in the long run? Georg gives his recommendations on how to do this.

                      29:08 Georg explains who metrics are useful to and a question was asked from one of the guys as to how people can learn about different things from metrics without getting involved in the CHAOSS community if they don’t have time. Georg gives his advice.

                      33:38 Georg chats about what was different at the recent CHAOSSCON, what he’s focused on, and what he’s doing moving ahead. Listen on as he states, “It was the BEST we’ve had!”

                      Spotlights
                      • 39:11 Justin’s spotlight this week is a TechRepublic article called, “Linux Foundation study throws the open source sustainability debate into question,” by Matt Asay.
                      • 39:38 Eric’s spotlight is a controversial one called Web3 Sustain Event-Blockchain.
                      • 40:47 Richard’s pick is Jekyll, to build websites really easily and fast using Ruby.
                      • 41:15 Georg gives a shout out to the LibreOffice community.
                      • Links

                        Georg Link, PhD

                        Georg Link
                        Georg Link Twitter
                        Georg Link Linkedin
                        Bitergia
                        Red Hat
                        OSPO
                        CHAOSS Participate
                        CHAOSS Metrics
                        Finos Foundation
                        Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
                        Drupal
                        Cauldron
                        Tech Republic article by Matt Asay
                        Sustain Web3 event-Blockchain
                        Jekyll
                        LibreOffice

                        Special Guest: Georg Link.

                        Sponsored By:

                        • Linode: Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today.
                        Promo Code: sustain2020

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                        43 min

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