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Design, software, and open source
Request For Commits
01/19/18 • 70 min
Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isn’t better represented in open source.
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Featuring:
- Lauren McCarthy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
- Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Show Notes:
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time
Request For Commits
01/19/18 • 62 min
Henry Zhu joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on Babel, how he became and accidental maintainer, why he thinks maintainers aren’t special, paid open source work, the Babel brand, and building community.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Experiments and the Economics of Open Source
Request For Commits
01/19/18 • 72 min
Daniel Bachhuber joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on wp-cli, the economics, origins, staying productive as a maintainer, fund raising, and the state of wp-cli today.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability
Request For Commits
11/22/17 • 79 min
Danese Cooper joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the history of open source, how the term became a thing via Tim O’Reilly, feeling empowered as an open source contributor, companies’ relationship to open source, foundations and their role (or not) in governance and sustainability.
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- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
- Danese Cooper – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
- Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Show Notes:
- Tim O’Reilly: Official Bio
- Free Software Foundation - working together for free software
- OSCON
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout
Request For Commits
11/01/17 • 58 min
Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout.
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Sponsors:
- Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
- Christopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
- Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Show Notes:
- Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
- mochajs/mocha on GitHub
- Mocha on GitHub
- Mocha on Open Collective
- Mocha on npm
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work?
Request For Commits
09/01/16 • 74 min
On today’s show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Max Ogden, creator of Dat, an open source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets. Max has also done a lot of work in the Node.js ecosystem, including helping start NodeSchool and publishing hundreds of modules to npm. He was also one of the first Code for America fellows.
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We talked about how he figured out grants were right for developing Dat, and how he managed to find his first funders. We also got into the mechanics of grant funding. Max shared what it’s like to work with grant funders, and how to build those early relationships if you’re looking for grants yourself.
- dat
- Knight Prototype Fund - Knight Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Substance Consortium
- Submission to openscienceprize.org
- MozFest 2016
- NodeSchool
- U.S. Open Data
- The difference between 18F and USDS
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Documentation and Quitting Open Source
Request For Commits
10/20/17 • 65 min
Ryan Bigg joined the show to talk about his open source work on the documentation of Ruby on Rails, fund raising, crowd sourcing, departure, handing off, not quitting, making the right decision, getting paid, sustaining, and more.
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- Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Open source and supercomputers (Spack)
Request For Commits
07/12/17 • 63 min
Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.
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- Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
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Show Notes:
- LLNL’s Website
- LLNL on GitHub
- Spack
- Exascale
- NumFOCUS
- Livermore Computing
- DOE National Laboratories
- ASC program
- LDRD
- SBIR
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)
Request For Commits
06/15/17 • 61 min
Evan You joined the show to talk about his work on Vue.js. We learn how Evan found users and got Vue.js off the ground, the details behind their crowdfunding on Patreon, whether or not crowdfunding is a viable method of sustaining open source, finding balance in life and work, and plans for funding beyond the Patreon campaign.
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Sponsors:
- Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
- Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
- Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:
Show Notes:
Season 2 has begun! Evan You is the creator of Vue, a popular progressive JavaScript framework. He works on Vue full time with the funding from its Patreon campaign. He previously worked at Google and Meteor.
- Vue.js - The progressive JavaScript framework
- VueConf - The first official Vue.js conference in the world!
- Vue.js on Patreon
- Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
- Henry Zhu - Stay tuned to hear from Henry later on in season 2
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Finale, thank you!
Request For Commits
03/21/18 • 42 min
In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place now and in the future. This might be the end of this podcast, but the conversation will continue on The Changelog. You should subscribe if you’re not already.
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- Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
- Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
Featuring:
- Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
- Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
- Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
- The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
- The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
- Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
- How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
- Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
- Open source infrastructure Q&A
- What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
- Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
- Maintainerati
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FAQ
How many episodes does Request For Commits have?
Request For Commits currently has 21 episodes available.
What topics does Request For Commits cover?
The podcast is about Open Source, Community, How To, Software, Podcasts, Technology, Education and Sustainability.
What is the most popular episode on Request For Commits?
The episode title 'Design, software, and open source' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Request For Commits?
The average episode length on Request For Commits is 66 minutes.
How often are episodes of Request For Commits released?
Episodes of Request For Commits are typically released every 11 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of Request For Commits?
The first episode of Request For Commits was released on Aug 4, 2016.
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