Finale, thank you!
In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations ...
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Request For Commits explored different perspectives in open source sustainability (retired). Hosts Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers dive deep into the trials and tribulations of being an open source maintainer, building communities, and navigating the business side of software. Common topics include software licensing, copyright, documentation, governance models, funding platforms such as Open Collective, Kickstarter, etc., measuring success, and more.
Design, software, and open source
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...
Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time
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, pai...
Experiments and the Economics of Open Source
Daniel Bachhuber joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on wp-cli, the economics, origins, staying productive as a maintainer, fund raising, and ...
Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability
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 ope...
Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout
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...
Documentation and Quitting Open Source
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 o...
Open source and supercomputers (Spack)
Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the nat...
Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)
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 crowd...
BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2
In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show w...