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Episode 133: Sustain and CHAOSS: A Joint Podcast
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Panelists Georg Link | Richard Littauer | Dawn Foster | Willem Jiang | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to CHAOSScast Community podcast, where we share use cases and experiences with measuring open source community health. Elevating conversations about metrics, analytics, and software from the Community Health Analytics Ope…
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Episode 132: Ana Jiménez Santamaría on OSPOs and the TODO Group
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Guest Ana Jiménez Santamaría Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Ana Jiménez Santamaría, who’s the TODO Group OSPO Program Manager. Our conversations bring us to finding out how Ana got i…
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Episode 131: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Community Africa (OSCA)
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Guest Bolaji Ayodeji Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, our guest is Bolaji Ayodeji, who’s a Software Engineer, Content Creator, Community Engineer, and currently works as a Developer Advocate at Commerce…
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Episode 130: OSCA, Docs, and Burnout with Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode (Bami)
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Guest Anita Ihuman | Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we’ll be talking to two guests who are a part of the Open Source Community Africa (OSCA), which has a conference every year or so in Nigeria, where a l…
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Episode 129: Per Ploug and the Spotify FOSS Fund
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Guest Per Ploug Krogslund Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is Per Ploug Krogslund, who’s the Open Source Tech Lead at Spotify. He’s with us to talk in-depth about the FOSS Fund he’s setting up with Spotify, to …
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Episode 128: Sustain Hosts: What Does Sustain Mean?
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Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls | Amanda Casari Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today’s episode is all panelists, no guests, and our conversations are focusing on the question, “What does sustaining open source actually mean?” Each of the p…
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Episode 127: GitHub Maintainer Month with Marie Kochsiek of drip and Hélène Martin of ODK
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Guest Marie Kochsiek | Hélène Martin Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to a special episode of Sustain/GitHub Maintainer Month, which is a short series of podcasts where we’re focusing on maintainers of open source, what they do with their experience, and how they contribute to the sustainability of their projects. Our first g…
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Episode 126: GitHub Maintainer Month with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew and Nina Breznik of DatDot
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Guest Mike McQuaid | Nina Breznik Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to a special episode of Sustain, where we interview Maintainers as part of GitHub Maintainer Month! On this episode, Richard is interviewing a few open source maintainers to talk about what it’s like to be a maintainer, how awesome they are, and what issues th…
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Episode 125: Astor Nummelin Carlberg of OFE on the Economic Impact of Open Source
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Guest Astor Nummelin Carlberg Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On this episode, we have joining us, Astor Nummelin Carlberg, who’s the Executive Director of OpenForum Europe. OFE works with open technologies an…
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Episode 124: Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source Contributions
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Guest Julia Ferraioli Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Julia Ferraioli, who’s an open source human, co-founded Open Source Stories, and has been part of the Sustain com…
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Episode 123: Colin Eberhardt of Scott Logic on Software Sustainability
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Guest Colin Eberhardt Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls Show ask: Fill out this Survey for OSS in Europe! Link. Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, joining us as our guest is Colin Eberhardt, who’s the CTO at Scott Logic, which is a UK based software consu…
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Episode 122: A conversation with Stefano Maffulli of the OSI
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Guest Stefano Maffulli Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have joining us Stefano Maffulli, who’s the new Executive Director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Our conversations center around Stefano taking us thr…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Mike Jang Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical documentation, open source, and community. Today joining us is Mike Jang, who’s a Staff Technical Writer for Cobalt. To figure out what …
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Episode 121: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Cornelius Schumacher, Yadira Sánchez Benítez & Thomas Fricke
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Guests Cornelius Schumacher | Yadira Sánchez Benítez | Thomas Fricke Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person a…
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Episode 120: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Rich Bowen & Paul Berschick
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Guests Rich Bowen | Paul Berschick Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about software sustainabil…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Zachary Corleissen Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Here at Let’s Talk Docs, we reach out to folks in the field who are elevating the craft of wr…
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Episode 119: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Ana Jiménez Santamaría and McCoy Smith
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Guests Ana Jiménez Santamaría | McCoy Smith Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about open source…
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Episode 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald
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Guest Florian Gilcher | Silona Bonewald Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at the FOSS Backstage 2022 that is held in Berlin every year. This conference focuses on open source and sustainability. He had the opportunity to interview people who were there in-person and talk about software s…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Romina Vicente · Ivana Isadora Devcic · Erin McKean Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we’re going to talk about Google Season of Docs, ever…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Amy Burns Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we have joining us as our guest, Amy Burns, who is the Senior Content Developer at Vercel. She’…
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Episode 117: Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects
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Guest Mike McQuaid Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about software sustainability for the long haul. Today, I’m very excited to have as my guest from Edinburgh, Mike McQuaid, who’s a Principal Engineer at GitHub and the Project Leader of Homebrew. Mike fills us in on Homebrew, how he beca…
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Episode 116: Álvaro Trigo of fullPage.js, on making a living using OSS
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Guest Álvaro Trigo Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Our guest today is Álvaro Trigo, who is an open source developer and maintainer of fullPage.js, which is an open source package that helps you figure out how …
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Aisha Blake Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we have joining us Aisha Blake, Director of Developer Relations at Pluralsight, as well as a …
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Episode 115: Emily Shaffer: Paid OSS Software Development on the Git project
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Guest Emily Shaffer Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we’re going to have some great conversations with our guest, Emily Shaffer, who is a Software Developer for Google working on Git, which is an open source project. Emil…
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Episode 114: Chris Coleman and the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA)
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Guest Chris Coleman Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really cool guest joining us, Chris Coleman, who is the Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and Director of The Clinic for Open Source Arts at the Uni…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Beth Aitman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, a show where we explore the intersection of technical docs, open source, and community. Today, we are so excited to have as our guest, Beth Aitman, who is a Senior Technical Writer at Goog…
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Episode 113: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift on the MLH Fellowship program
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Guest Jon Gottfried | Mike Swift Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We have two amazing guests joining us, Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift, who are the Co-Founders of Major League Hacking (MLH). Today, we’ll learn …
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Episode 112: Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
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Guest Mike Saunders Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard is solo today, but very excited to have as his guest, Mike Saunders, joining us from Munich, where he’s the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for The Document Foundation, a …
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Episode 111: Amanda Casari on ACROSS and Measuring Contributions in OSS
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Guest Amanda Casari Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls | Eric Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited for today’s podcast. Our guest is Amanda Casari, who is a Developer Relations Engineer and Open Source Researcher at Google Open Source Prog…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Swapnil Ogale Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Our special guest today is Swapnil Ogale, who has over 16 years of technical documentati…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Today, our special guest is Fabrizio Benedetti, who’s a Senior Staff Technica…
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Episode 110: Impactful Open Source: Teaching Open Source Technology Managers at Brandeis, with Ken Udas and Georg Link
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Guests Ken Udas | Georg Link Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to a special episode of Sustain. This is the Impactful Open Source series, part of a former podcast host by Richard Littauer. This is the podcast where we talk about taking source code and moving it until it makes an impact on the world at large, either on cities, u…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Tom Johnson Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs, the show where we’ll talk about documentation, open source, tech, and the intersection of the three. Today, we’re talking to Tom Johnson, who’s a tech writer and has worked at both startup…
Sponsored by Document Write · EthicalAds · Sourcegraph Panelists Portia Burton | Eric Holscher Guest Megan Sullivan Show Notes Hello and welcome to Let’s Talk Docs! This is our first episode and we’re so happy you’re joining us. On this podcast, we’ll be sharing with you a new concept around documentation and sustainability. We’re going to talk abo…
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Episode 109: Dries Buytaert of Drupal on Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
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Guest Dries Buytaert Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We’re very excited about our guest and even though Richard is the only panelist today, it’s going to be a great episode. Joining us today is Dries Buytaert, who’s the Founder of Drupal, a…
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Episode 108: Sarah Gran and Josh Aas: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure with Memory Safe Code
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Guest Sarah Gran | Josh Aas Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are super excited to have two guests today, Sarah Gran and Josh Aas, who both work for ISRG, the Internet Security Research Group which consists of three projec…
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Episode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS Communities
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Guest Caroline Sinders Panelists Richard Littauer | Eriol Fox | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are very excited to have as our guest, Caroline Sinders, who is the Founder of Convocation Design + Research. She’s also a critical designer, resear…
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Episode 106: Rodrigo Mendoza on Quine and GitNFT
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Guest Rodrigo Mendoza Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nichols | Eric Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have a really awesome guest to talk about some really cool stuff. Rodrigo Mendoza is the Founder and CEO of Quine, a data-driven pro…
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Episode 105: John Amaral and Kyle Quest on Slim.ai
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Guest John Amaral | Kyle Quest Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are excited to have two guests with us from Slim.ai, which is a company that focuses on developer experience. Joining us is John Amaral, who is the CEO of…
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Episode 104: Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover on Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund
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Guest Duane O’Brien | Mandy Grover Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nichols Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On today’s episode we have two excellent guests, Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover. Duane is the Head of Open Source at Indeed and Mandy is a Tec…
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Episode 103: Samuel Wein on OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry
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Guest Samuel Wein Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. On today’s episode, we are very excited to have as our guest, Samuel Wein, who is a core developer and Executive Chairman of the OpenMS Foundation, a Post Doc at University …
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Episode 102: Ele Diakomichalis and Radicle
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Guest Ele Diakomichalis Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Pia Mancini Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited to have as our guest today, Ele Diakomichalis, who is one of the Co-Founders and one of the core contributors to Radicle. What is Radicle…
Guest Nicholas C. Zakas Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. You may know my guest today, Nicholas Zakas, because he is the creator of a very popular JavaScript project called ESLint, which has been downloaded 13 million times each week. Nichola…
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Episode 100: Sustain #100: Only Hosts, on who we are, where we came from, and where we're going
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Guest Paul Bahr | DeAnn Bahr Panelists Richard Littauer | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Eriol Fox | Ben Nichols Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Cue the horns and balloons folks because today’s episode is extremely special. We are c…
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Episode 99: Matt Mankins and giving Kudos to OSS maintainers
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Guest Matt Mankins Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nichols Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are very excited to have as our guest, Matt Mankins, joining us from Barcelona. He is a Fellow at Mozilla, currently working on advancing open monetization strategie…
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Episode 98: Silona Bonewald and her long-term vision for IEEE and open source
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Guest Silona Bonewald Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, our guest is Silona Bonewald, who is the Executive Director of IEEE SA OPEN, which is a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for develo…
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Episode 97: Anthony Ronda and the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers, games, and Open Source
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Guest Anthony Ronda Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric Berry | Ben Nickolls | Eriol Fox Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we have an amazing guest, Anthony Ronda, who is one of the leaders in the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers. Foundry Virtual Tab…
Talking Points: The disadvantage that Juniors developers have Focus on the actual goal Take your career to the next level Quotable Quotes: "Through mentorship programs and developer events that I run, I recognize that the biggest disadvantage that Juniors developers have is not technical expertise" "Tools, libraries, technologies, frameworks, langu…
Talking Points: Open-source contributions Working with workflows Promoting open-source projects Networking Founder’s mindset Quotable Quotes: "Getting involved with open-source can definitely make your development more visible" - AP "A lot of the opportunities that I've had in my life often come down to networking, and open-source is no exception t…
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Talking Points: How to find balance to avoid burning out Finding your career goal as a developer How to help others and learn while having fun Quotable Quotes: "You should be pushing yourself, you should be learning new things" [instead of relying on an employer] - DG "Choose projects that you find fun” [to make your leisure time, your learning tim…
