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FLOSS Weekly 672: Wartime Roundtable - Gitlab vs Russia, AMD Linux GPU Support
When war over territory develops in the physical world, what happens to developers in the borderless networked one? Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett dive into that question, while also visiting other wartime tech topics, such as the new Universal Chiplet, exciting new device drivers and the first 300 Starlinks in Ukraine.Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Katherine DruckmanDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsors: itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 kolide.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 671: WordPress Evolutions - Matt Mullenweg, WordPress
Matt Mullenweg, founder, CEO and president of Automattic, talks to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how WordPress—their main product and open source project—is the "dark matter of the Web." He also tells us what's up with Tumblr, Openverse, WooCommerce, the Gutenberg block editor, and other projects among the many the company is up to.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Matt MullenwegDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit Compiler - FLOSS NewRelic.com/FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 670: SSI and Digital wallets - Darrell O'Donnell, Digital Wallets
Darrell O'Donnell of Continuum Loop tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how digital wallets will have to work in a world of self-sovereign identity (SSI) on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Digital wallets will have all the identity information you need, but with the ability to confine output to only what another party needs to know and nothing more.Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn PowersGuest: Darrell O'DonnellDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: kolide.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 669: Free + / vs. Open - Jon "maddog" Hall, Free Software vs Open Software
What does Jon "maddog" Hall—a man with 15,000 FLOSS-related t-shirts have to say? Lots about everything free, open and otherwise, in a conversation that occasionally turns to an argument between maddog, Simon Phipps, and host Doc Searls.Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon PhippsGuest: Jon "maddog" HallDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 668: Marketing Open Source - Rob La Gessee, OpenStack, AWS
Rob La Gesse, whose career spans business, military, politics and other fields, tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how inventive marketing helped make Rackspace a social media star while the company also teamed up with NASA and others on OpenStack, which is still helping grow the cloud business outside of Amazon.Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine DruckmanGuest: Rob La GesseDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsors: kolide.com/twit itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 Compiler - FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 667: Open Source Onboarding - Ramón Huidobro, CodeSee
Ramón Huidobro of CodeSee joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Open source is bigger and wilder than ever, which means onboarding talent to a project is a serious thing. And nobody knows more or better about onboarding than Huidobro of CodeSee, which visualizes dependencies and much more in your codebase. In this episode, Huidobro clues the FLOSS Weekly hosts and listeners into what's involved with visualizing codebases, bringing talent in, working as ensembles and much more.Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn PowersGuest: Ramón HuidobroDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 666: Hackaday - Elliot Williams, Open Source & Hacking
Hackaday.com is what its new editor-in-chief, Elliot Williams, calls "a library of Alexandra for fugitive hacks"—and that's just one of the many deep and quotable things he shares with Doc Searls and co-host Jonathan Bennett, who is also a veteran Hackaday writer. Topics range from hackable gizmo and the hacker mindset, to how great open firmware hacks become bait for cool new hackable products coming out of China.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Elliott WilliamsDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: kolide.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 665: The Open Source Initiative - Stefano Maffulli, OSI
Stefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out!Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon PhippsGuest: Stefano MaffulliDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: Compiler - FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 664: Tailscale - Avery Pennarun, VPN
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 NewcombGuest: Avery PennarunDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsors: itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 kolide.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 663: UNIX as a Second Language - Sandra Henry-Stocker
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 LynchGuest: Sandra Henry-StockerDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 662: FreeBSD - Deb Goodkin, Linux vs FreeBSD
Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. There are lots of ways FreeBSD is not Linux or vice versa. Or ways they're actually better for some purposes. Just ask Netflix. In a lively hour of conversation, Goodkin visits many operating systems and related topics regarding the open source world as well as FreeBSD.Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn PowersGuest: Deb GoodkinDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.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 Sponsor: kolide.com/twit