My Open Source Experience Podcast

Sometimes we get so caught up with where we are that we don't think about where our tools, methods and habits come from.This also means that we make the same mistakes that others already made before us, and we could've learned from.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Roberto Di Cosmo shares anecdotes from his career and journey in tech.

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- How you can make a hard drive to play music

- How...

Coming up with an open source strategy that will be successful and sustainable for your company over time trips up more organizations than it should. One of the missing components to this is the foundational understanding of how the open source ecosystem works and what that means for your company.

I asked Ruth Suehle about her experience in the OSS ecosystem, mostly focusing on her corporate journey working with multiple compani...

This is the kickoff episode of the 4th season of the My Open Source Experience podcast.

Ildiko shares a list of upcoming events, along with new conversations with previous guests of the podcast about:

- Magnus Buhrgard - The Human Factor

- Mike Gifford - Community Mindset

- Austen Bryan - People are Value

- Wolfgang Gehring - What's in Your Product?

- Stormy Peters - OSS Insurance Package

- Brad Chamberlain - The Lengthy Programming L...

Sometimes regulations that don't target open source still affect the wider ecosystem, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Europe is one of these. And there some deadlines you need to be aware of.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Christopher CRob Robinson talks about the legislation, incuding some deadlines and requirements.

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- CRA as one of the most impactful legislations in recent-is...

No matter how much you talk about something that you do or discovered, there will always be someone who hasn't heard your story yet. Conferences help with both information sharing, as well as to conect with like-minded people.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Wolfgang Gehring shares about his experience with presenting at events, creating online content and getting company approval and funding for all thi...

There are bad practices that no one should do when they get involved in opens source communities.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Greg Kroah-Hartman shares three examples from Linux history where people followed some bad patterns, which then somtimes resulted in raising the bar for everyone else.

1. Merge and Disappear

Greg shares an example where someone contributed a big change to the core parts of t...

Copyright is complex, and geographies get factored into that a little bit.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Rick Sanders talks about how copyright works on the global scale, including the Berne Convention and timelines.

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- The Berne Convention

- The government-driven nature of copyright

- Copyright is government-driven but governments don't have much to do with copyright

- The statue in co...

Doing reviews is a task that is often percieved as a maintainer responsibility, or something that only the more established people in the community can do. This is a misconception, which deprives newcomers from the opportunity to learn, and makes it harder to grow the maintainer team.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Daniel Stenberg talks about his approach to 

- What maintainers need to do to sup...

Working in a community where there are people who volunteer their free time gives people experience that can later on be beneficial in corporate environments as well.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Stormy Peters talks about her experience at the Mozilla Corporation, where she worked with a large community of many volunteers.

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- Why speed isn't always the most important

- Investing time ...

You need to make sure that you treat improvements in your project the right way. Some improvements are features as they bring new functionality. However, when the new functionality makes existing functionality available for people with disabilities, then it's not a feature that got implemented, it's a critical bug that got fixed.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Mike Gifford talks about the mindset shift ...

Open source engagement is a journey, and it doesn't start with contributing large amounts of code, even if you're a large company.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Ashan Senevirathne talks about Swisscom's approach to explore and leverage projects from the CNCF ecosystem to build and operate their networks.

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- OSS projects that are easy to adopt in the telecom ecosystem

- OSS projects th...

Both in personal and in professional life, it can happen that people discredit you and undermine you behind your back. There are multiple ways to handle this situation without letting the other person to make a damage to you.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Shuah Khan shares an experience from her corporate career when someone was discrediting her behind her back.

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- How to handle when ...

Industry segments, like automotive, often rely on specialized hardware and software stacks. As that is very expensive to keep up, most segments have a shift towards COTS HW and that is an opportunity to look into open source as well.

In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Philipp Ahmann talks about his experience with this generation change, that also involved using Linux. This shift opened up more opportunitie...

The open source ecosystem has many layers, components and actors and all these need to work together in harmony to keep the ecosystem thriving. The Season 3 finale episode reflects on some of these peices and explores how companies can improve their practices internally, while also touches on communication practices and building your skills in open source communities.

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- Ashan Senevirathne on building skills and r...

Accessibility sometimes comes with a stigma, since it becomes a discussion topic when someone has a disability that prevents them to do something that they would like to, like accessing an admin interface because they're blind.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Mike Gifford talks about how he put accessibility on the map in the Drupal community, and through that for the internet.

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We often have well-baked ideas about how we would like things to tunr out, which gets combined with beliefs that are being shaped by the environment we're in. Despite of human nature, we need to follow our intuition and revisit whether or not what we had learned in the past has reached the point where we would benefit from re-evaluating it.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Rick Sanders talks about how his...

You've probably seen the meme with the tny project maintained by one person that holds up half the pyramid of all software products and services we use and connect to the world wide web. Curl is a project that is not much bigger than that, but has the same or even bigger impact. Used by billions of people and devices, but maintained by a small community.

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Daniel Stenberg talks abo...

How much people crave being part of communities that they can realte to is often underrated, which is probably one of the reasons why people and companies don't invest time and resources into building a community around the code they open source.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience Podcast, a group of open source experts share their experiences and opinions on topics that affect the growth and sustainability of comm...

For many people it's very challenging to jump the bar from being a silent user of open source software to reaching out to the community, even just to ask a question. And some, or maybe rather many, of these people will never get there to take that step, which could change their lives.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast Engin Kayraklioglu talks about his first experience with the Chapel open source programmi...