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By SustainOSS
Sustain brings together practitioners, sustainers, funders, researchers and maintainers of the open source ecosystem. We have conversations about the health and sustainability of the open source community.
Latest episode
38 min
Topics
Open-source projects, maintainers, communities, licensing, sustainability, and governance.
Language design, runtimes, compilers, syntax, and language-specific engineering practice.
Blockchain architecture, smart contracts, consensus, protocols, and decentralized applications.
Formats
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Recurring multi-host or multi-guest discussion and debate.
Audience level
Regularly assumes specialist knowledge and discusses implementation, architecture, protocols, code, or research in depth.
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Guest Daniel Roe | Matias Capeletto Panelist Richard Littauer In this episode of Sustain, Richard Littauer sits down with Daniel Roe and Matias “Patak” Capeletto to talk about npmx, the community-built alternative interface for exploring the npm registry.
They discuss how companies can better support the open source software they depend on, why it can be difficult to know where funding should go, and how the lab hopes to address issues like software security, hidden dependencies, and maintainer burnout. Press download now to hear more!
Guest Chelsea Finnie Panelist Richard Littauer In this episode of Sustain, Richard talks with Chelsea Finnie, Chairperson of Python New Zealand and a Senior Network DevOps Engineer at REANNZ, about the serious behind-the-scenes work required to keep open source communities alive.
At UN Open Source Week in New York, Richard hosts a short, on-the-fly Sustain mini-episode from IBM’s offices with Andrew Nesbitt of Ecosyste, a registry-of-registries built from dependency data across 300 million repositories.
Guest Courtney Miller Panelist Richard Littauer In this episode of Sustain, Richard welcomes back Courtney Miller to unpack her PhD research on one of open source’s most overlooked problems: what happens when widely used software is abandoned.
Guest Jeff Young | Daniel Shown Panelists Richard Littauer | Eriol Fox In this episode of Sustain, Richard Littauer and Eriol Fox talk with Jeff Young from Georgia Tech and Daniel Shown from Saint Louis University (SLU) about how academic OSPOs are bringing students into open source in meaningful, sustainable ways.
Guest Alan Rubin Panelist Richard Littauer On this episode of Sustain, Richard Littauer sits down with computational biologist Alan Rubin to explore how open source software supports scientific research, clinical genetics, and cancer-related data infrastructure.
Guest Jack Skinner Panelist Richard Littauer In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer talks with Jack Skinner, PyCon AU organizer and freelance consultant/fractional CTO, to explore why regional conferences matter so much to the long-term health of open source communities.
Guest Miranda Heath Panelist Richard Littauer In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer is joined by PhD student Miranda Heath to discuss her research on altruism and maintainer burnout in open source, and specifically her report on burn out in open source maintainers.
Guest Trent Van Epps Panelists Eriol Fox | Victory Brown In this episode of Sustain, host Eriol Fox and co-host Victory Brown are at the Devconnect Conference in Buenos Aires with Trent Van Epps, an organizer of Protocol Guild and member of the Ethereum Foundation.