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Gitlab Commit

Adventures in DevOps

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Eric Berry

Joined By Special Guest: Heath Arensen

Heath Arensen is the Director of Business Planning and Sustainability at the Digital Impact Alliance's Open Source Center. He also supports Open Source projects with consulting and advising in Business Models for sustainability.

The discussion opens with a discussion about a quote Heath has in his Twitter account “Belief that the world's best software can be built in the most unlikely places”. Heath grew up in East Africa and talks about how developers from Africa can face prejudice when it comes to their skills.

They then talk about how developer talent can be cultivated around the world. Heath defines sustainability as more than just software. He describes their "Open-Sourcify" check-list that they go through when they are evaluating an Open Source project's sustainability.

The panel then goes through an example where two countries exchange digital services and list the challenges that can arise along the way. They then talk about some of the successful cases Heath has worked on.

Heath then talks about different Open Source revenue models that they go through when they evaluate an Open Source projects that benefit the community. They then invite people who are interested in being a part of an Open Source project that with to get in touch with them through their website.

Towards a More Gender-inclusive Open Source Community

https://www.osc.dial.community/

https://forum.osc.dial.community/

Digital Impact Alliance

Heath's LinkedIn

Heath's Twitter

Eric Berry:

https://alteregoeffect.com/

https://www.playdemic.com/games/golf-clash

Richard Littauer:

Taking pics with his grandfather's Nikon camera

Special Guest: Heath Arensen.

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React Native Radio

iPhreaks Show

Ruby Rogues

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Eric Berry

Richard Littauer

Joined By Special Guest: Bastien Guerry

Bastien Guerry is employed by the French Administration in a program named Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général inspired by Presidential Innovation Fellows. He is also the Release Manager of Org Mode, an information management and outlining tool for Emacs.

Bastien wrote his first software for his girlfriend to help her with her thesis. He then went onto maintain Org Mode between years 2011 and 2015. Bastien likens open source software maintainers' job to that of stay-at-home mothers' job description, as both are a lot of work and involve a lot of responsibility and stress and both are not compensated financially.

The panel then ask about the evolution of Fund The Code Project which supports the free software movement by donations from sponsors. Bastien invites free software maintainers to contact Fund The Code Project for help in finding sponsors.

Bastien Guerry - EmacsWiki

Org mode

_DINSIC

Etalab

Entrepreneurs d'intérêt général

Presidential Innovation Fellows

https://bzg.fr/en/donating-to-free-software-and-free-culture.html/

https://libraries.io/

https://backyourstack.com/

http://themaintainers.org/

Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) | Twitter

Maintainers III: Practice, Policy and Care

https://publiccode.net/

https://www.fundthecode.org/

http://openmodels.fr/en/

SOS 005: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui

Open Source & Software Development | O'Reilly OSCON

Eric Berry:

Software Freedom Conservancy

Richard Littauer:

The Internet is a City

https://www.amazon.com/Chomsky-Anarchism-Noam/dp/1904859208

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)

Bastien Guerry:

https://www.writethedocs.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Cardenio

Special Guest: Bastien Guerry.

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Richard Littauer

Jon Schlinkert

Eric Berry

Joined By Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui

Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences. He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS protocol. Mehdi and the panel shine a light on the lack of compensation for developers that maintain open source projects. A majority of these projects are used by many profitable end products but these profits do not make its way back to the developers that contribute with their open source code. The panel explores the best methods to write open source code and still be recognized for the development effort via trademark, licensing and copyright.

Mehdi's LinkedIn

Mehdi's Twitter

Mehdi Medjaoui – Medium

Sustain 2018

Tidelift

Open Source Initiative

The Market for Lemons

FOSSmarks

Contributor License Agreement

Why I Do Not Support a Node Foundation by Eran Hammer

https://www.fundthecode.org/

A Trademark-based contract for OSS maintainers

https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch

IBM closes $34 billion Red Hat acquisition: Now it's time to deliver

Walmart's investment in open source isn't cheap

Eric Berry:

Making Uncommon Knowledge Common

SuperHuman marketing efforts

Jon Schlinkert:

Crossing the Chasm

The Profit Zone

Richard Littauer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard

The Great Book of Amber

https://www.davidwhyte.com/

Mehdi Medjaoui:

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code

https://increment.com/

Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui.

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Pia Mancini

Richard Littauer

Joined By Special Guest: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta

Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open-source software learning platform for children. Both Samson and Vipul agree that a lot of developers they talk to are not very familiar with open source and the most common question they receive in meet-up groups is how one can start to contribute to open source. They then discuss what can be done to have more open source contributors and conference attendance from the rest of the world. One of the main issues that make travel difficult is obtaining visa for non-USA and non-UK citizens. A practice that France has been doing for conference specific visas is brought up as a beneficial example.

https://www.oscafrica.org/

https://sustainoss.org/


https://www.sugarlabs.org/

Vipul Gupta's LinkedIn

Vipul Gupta's Twitter

Samson Goddy's Twitter

Samson Goddy's LinkedIn

https://pydelhi.org

ALiAS

https://opencollective.com/osca

https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper

https://www.yegor256.com/about-me.html

Bounties - Open Collective Docs

Sustain Summit 2018 | Sustain Open Source

Pia Mancini:

Suggestion for certifications for open source contributions

Suggestions to move opencollective forward

Vipul Gupta:

https://swipetounlock.com/

Richard Littauer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Samson Goddy:

Nigerian Jollof rice

Black Panther (2018)

Special Guests: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta.

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Pia Mancini

Eric Berry

Joined By Special Guest: Greg Bloom

Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dilemmas developers are facing in open source software maintenance resembles some of the dilemmas dealt with in common resources management. The panel then talks about what principles or rules should be defined for using open source software resources by taking cues from the common resources management guidelines.

https://OpenReferral.org

https://openreferral.org/our-video-open-referral-in-three-minutes/

Greg's LinkedIn

Greg's Twitter

Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom

Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin

Elinor Ostrom

https://commons.blog/2012/08/18/how-commons-can-flourish/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_analysis_and_development_framework

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_analysis_and_development_framework

The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework

Principles of Open Source Institutional Design

https://aspirationtech.org

Governing Knowledge Commons by Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, Katherine J. Strandburg

Eric Berry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)

iPadOS Preview

Pia Mancini:

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato

Greg Bloom:

https://responsibledata.io/

https://digitalpublic.io/

Special Guest: Greg Bloom.

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Richard Littauer

Jon Schlinkert

Eric Berry

The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products rather than libraries like these.

GitHub Sponsors

Jon Schlinkert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning

Eric Berry

Eric Berry:

https://metabase.com/

https://tryshift.com/

Richard Littauer:

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/momentum-generation

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Pia Mancini

Richard Littauer

Joined By Special Guest: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta

Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Samson is the Member of the Oversight Board at Sugar Labs and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa and Vipul is a Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open-source software learning platform for children. Both Samson and Vipul agree that a lot of developers they talk to are not very familiar with open source and the most common question they receive in meet-up groups is how one can start to contribute to open source. They then discuss what can be done to have more open source contributors and conference attendance from the rest of the world. One of the main issues that make travel difficult is obtaining visa for non-USA and non-UK citizens. A practice that France has been doing for conference specific visas is brought up as a beneficial example.

https://www.oscafrica.org/

https://sustainoss.org/


https://www.sugarlabs.org/

Vipul Gupta's LinkedIn

Vipul Gupta's Twitter

Samson Goddy's Twitter

Samson Goddy's LinkedIn

https://pydelhi.org

ALiAS

https://opencollective.com/osca

https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper

https://www.yegor256.com/about-me.html

Bounties - Open Collective Docs

Sustain Summit 2018 | Sustain Open Source

Pia Mancini:

Suggestion for certifications for open source contributions

Suggestions to move opencollective forward

Vipul Gupta:

https://swipetounlock.com/

Richard Littauer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness

Redshirts by John Scalzi

Samson Goddy:

Nigerian Jollof rice

Black Panther (2018)

Special Guests: Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta.

This new addition to the Devchat.tv podcast family is about software sustainability, open source projects funding and software maintenance. The panelists introduce themselves and their roles and backgrounds in software sustainability. The panelists also mention that 57% of all software built is open-source and the economic value of open source is over 360 billion dollars so it is crucial to keep developers who maintain open-source projects from burning out. That being said open-source projects have difficulty accessing funding. The panelists talk about efforts that have been made to combat that such as opencollective.com. They then talk about some of the other topics the panelists plan to cover are and invite the audience to recommend topics they would like to hear more about on open-source sustainability.

Jon Schlinkert:

Eric Berry:

Richard Littauer:

Pia Mancini:

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This new addition to the Devchat.tv podcast family is about software sustainability, open source projects funding and software maintenance. The panelists introduce themselves and their roles and backgrounds in software sustainability. The panelists also mention that 57% of all software built is open-source and the economic value of open source is over 360 billion dollars so it is crucial to keep developers who maintain open-source projects from burning out. That being said open-source projects have difficulty accessing funding. The panelists talk about efforts that have been made to combat that such as opencollective.com. They then talk about some of the other topics the panelists plan to cover are and invite the audience to recommend topics they would like to hear more about on open-source sustainability.

Jon Schlinkert:

Eric Berry:

Richard Littauer:

Pia Mancini:

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Richard Littauer

Jon Schlinkert

Eric Berry

The panel discusses the announcement of the beta GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software. They list the features they like that GitHub Sponsors offers but think the beta roll-out could have been handled differently. A lot of critical software is dependent on open source software and many of these open source software libraries are maintained by unsupported developers. The panel uses border patrolling drones that are used to identify threats as an example to demonstrate how everyday life can suffer if open source sponsorship is geared only towards finished products rather than libraries like these.

GitHub Sponsors

Jon Schlinkert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning

Eric Berry

Eric Berry:

https://metabase.com/

https://tryshift.com/

Richard Littauer:

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/momentum-generation