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FLOSS Weekly (Video)

FLOSS Weekly (Video)

TWiT

We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community. Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.
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Top 10 FLOSS Weekly (Video) Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best FLOSS Weekly (Video) episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to FLOSS Weekly (Video) for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite FLOSS Weekly (Video) episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

FLOSS Weekly (Video) - FLOSS Weekly 649: Open Firmware - Daniel Maslowski
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09/29/21 • 55 min

Daniel Maslowski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk about open firmware. Open firmware is an almost ironic term, especially for IP cameras, given the proprietary purposes of most manufacturers. There is a large and active community of code and developments around open firmware, led largely in part by Maslowski.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Daniel Maslowski

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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Richard North was the dog that caught the bus when all of a sudden his open source project, Testcontainers, took off, and now has more than a million monthly downloads and developers using it at Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google and other settings large and small. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Richard about how he caught the bus he ended up driving, how he set up Testcontainers.org, stood up Atomicjar.com as a running business backed by smart capital, and put learnings to use through a six-year journey that includes a worldwide pandemic that is changing development for everyone.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Richard North

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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FLOSS Weekly (Video) - FLOSS Weekly 653: Web Servers and Cybercrime - Paul Mutton
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10/27/21 • 68 min

Paul Mutton of Netcraft gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman an hour of wisdom, experience and stories about items we can worry about less because he and Netcraft are on the case. If you care about cybercrime, phishing, malware, or any of the many vulnerabilities that afflict us all online, this episode of FLOSS Weekly is for you—especially if you operate web servers.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Paul Mutton

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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FLOSS Weekly (Video) - FLOSS Weekly 652: Faces of Open Source - Peter Adams
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10/20/21 • 66 min

Photographer Peter Adams joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. The Mount Rushmore of Open Source is Adams' "Faces of Open Source," which is 100 faces strong so far. Including the faces of Searls and Phipps. Adams talks about the project, plus the history and future of open source, blockchain and NFTs, his work as a journalist, historian, entrepreneur.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Peter Adams

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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Paula Hunter, Executive Director of Mojaloop, joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the state of digital payments today. Mojaloop is an open-source project that provides the rails for interoperable digital payments between financial institutions, including banks and mobile phone companies. Particularly, in Africa and other parts of the world, where most people transact business in cash or typically use low-cost Android phones in multiple currencies and countries. It's an early, yet highly promising approach to financial inclusion.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Paula Hunter

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb are together on FLOSS Weekly taking a look at the challenges of switching to Linux, even though Linux runs on many things used in everyday life. System76 has decided to build a non-Gnome desktop for its distro. Why? Bennett addresses the allegations of Intel being optimized for Windows 11, but not taking Linux into consideration. It's a fun discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Aaron Newcomb

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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FLOSS Weekly (Video) - FLOSS Weekly 664: Tailscale - Avery Pennarun, VPN
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01/19/22 • 66 min

Avery Pennarun of Tailscale and much more, blows the minds of Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on a can't-miss show that explains how the best development is all "chickens and eggs." Pennarun explains thatfree software and open source is the gifting nature of the former, and how startups succeed and fail at crossing chasms. All while touching on so much more that we now have a Part 2 of the discussion planned.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Avery Pennarun

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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Sandra Henry-Stocker, @bugfarm on Twitter, whose column for Network World is Unix as a Second Language, joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch from her home in the mountains of Western Virginia to share wisdom gathered from more than 30 years administering and writing about Unix and Linux systems. The topics range widely to adjacent subjects, including astronomy, containers and lesser operating systems.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Sandra Henry-Stocker

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected].

Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

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FAQ

How many episodes does FLOSS Weekly (Video) have?

FLOSS Weekly (Video) currently has 45 episodes available.

What topics does FLOSS Weekly (Video) cover?

The podcast is about Open Source, Software, Tech News, Podcasts and Technology.

What is the most popular episode on FLOSS Weekly (Video)?

The episode title 'FLOSS Weekly 591: PLATO & The Rise of Cyberculture - Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on FLOSS Weekly (Video)?

The average episode length on FLOSS Weekly (Video) is 65 minutes.

How often are episodes of FLOSS Weekly (Video) released?

Episodes of FLOSS Weekly (Video) are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of FLOSS Weekly (Video)?

The first episode of FLOSS Weekly (Video) was released on Jun 17, 2020.

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