My Open Source Experience Podcast

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...

Organizing events is not rocket science, but putting on successful events that are also sustainable is much harder than it seems. Some key practices apply to all types of events, but you also need to keep in mind what kind of conference you're organizing. Business events and community-focused conferences are more different than you might think.

I recently talked to Rick Turoczy and learned that he's an introvert like I am. While...

Theoretically teams and individuals have everything to allow and encourage them within companies, and yet, the bigger a company gets the more tasks and work get duplicated leading to increasing costs. Collaboration between teams and departments is often more challenging than it needs to be, so it is not that surprising that these companies might have a harder time getting involved in the open source projects they are relying on.

The collaborative nature of open source is often overlooked by both individuals and companies ate first. Contrary to that, many projects and initiatives only succeed when they are developed in an open and collaborative environment. Think about successful, long-living programming languages as an example.

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Ildiko is chatting with Brad Chamberlain about the Chapel project. CHapel is ...

Running events is not easy, even for companies and organizations who this as (part of) their business. If you think that maintaining open source events as a volunteer organizer in your free time is impossible, you're proven wrong!

In the My Open Source Experience podcast episode, Ariel Jolo shares his experience how he got from helping his friends install Linux on their PCs and then becoming a sysadmin all the way to being the o...

We often talk about how tech and the open source ecosystem are both male-dominated environments. The numbers are bad, and while there's a lot that companies and communities can and should do, they can't fix everything.

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Shuah Khan opens up about her childhood and upbringing to share where she got some of her drive, motivation and spirit to embark on a journey from India to...

The new year brings a semi-new My Open Source Experience Podcast.

In this epside of the MOSE podcast, Ildiko kicks off with an announcement about the podcast. She then transitions into topics that outline upcoming episodes in the thrid season, and further highlights for the new year.

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- Upcoming open source events in 2026

- A retrospective on where the MOSE podcast started, and what is still applicable from the...

Technology, just as everything else moves forward, and sometimes that means that a project gets superseeded by something else that is better, more performant and a more promising options long term. When your project reaches this phase, it still matters what process you choose to follow when you archive it, since abandoning it silently from one day to the other is harmful to everyone else who is still relying on it and is under the ...

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Deciding to go all in on open source is often an enormous milestone in itself, however, it is just a small first step in the overall change process. Many companies have the buy-in on the engineering level, and some have it in the top management as well, but that is not enough!

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Wolfgang Gehring shares his journey through this transformation within his company, Mercedes-Ben...