Episodes

  • Changing communities have changing needs with Andy Piper

    Changing communities have changing needs with Andy Piper
    Jun 27 2024
    In this conversation between Andy Piper and amanda casari, Andy talks about their work in open source communities, specifically highlighting how communities differ, have different needs, and how these needs change and evolve over time. Additionally the discussion covers the “non-glamourous” work that needs to be done, and how difficult it can be to know what sort of help to ask for as a project.
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  • "Why do we code?" and other musings with Carol Willing

    "Why do we code?" and other musings with Carol Willing
    May 18 2024
    Carol Willing, a veteran programmer with a passion for making technology accessible, shares her journey from mainframe computers to the world of Python and Jupyter Notebooks. She emphasizes the importance of generalist skills, critical thinking, and building up the next generation of engineers.
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  • Rethinking the meaning of governance with Shauna Gordon-McKeon

    Rethinking the meaning of governance with Shauna Gordon-McKeon
    Oct 26 2023
    In a conversation looking at multiple meanings of open source governance and project health, Shauna Gordon-McKeon shares with Open Source Stories views of how investing in project culture can build virtuous cycles of inclusion and contribution. From reducing the number of roles that a maintainer might have to fill to lowering the barriers for user participation, this conversation looks to build from crisis management in 2017 to continuing improvements into the future with the ways open source projects get done.
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  • The power and joy in collaboration with Clare Dillon

    The power and joy in collaboration with Clare Dillon
    Oct 5 2023
    Why should open source have all the fun? Clare Dillon shares her experience in the wonderful world of innersource, the application of open source practices within organizations. Collaboration is just too exciting not to share!
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  • Robby Russell and the happy little accidental success of Oh My Zsh

    Robby Russell and the happy little accidental success of Oh My Zsh
    Sep 20 2023
    From selling stickers to creating one of the most popular projects on GitHub, Robby Russell looks back at the inception and unexpected rise of Oh My Zsh. Usefulness, creativity, and a good onboarding experience are key ingredients in this recipe.
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  • Community health and belonging with Anita Ihuman

    Community health and belonging with Anita Ihuman
    Jul 25 2023
    Measuring community health reveals challenges people experience in contributing. Anita Ihuman explains how to build awareness and leverage existing solutions for greater belonging in open source. What you measure, you can see and change!
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  • The peculiarities of security maintainership with Filippo Valsorda

    The peculiarities of security maintainership with Filippo Valsorda
    May 16 2023
    What changes when the projects you maintain are cornerstones of security? Filippo Valsorda elaborates on his experience as a cryptographer, his work in Go, and how his approach to maintainership might be a bit different from the average maintainer.
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  • The journey to becoming a maintainer with Jessica Tegner

    The journey to becoming a maintainer with Jessica Tegner
    May 12 2023
    How does one pick up the maintainership baton? Turns out that you can ask for it! Jessica Tegner tells the story of how she went from contributing to pypandoc to being the maintainer of it, and of the pressures that come from maintaining a widely used project.
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