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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• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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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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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• 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.

Featuring:

• Lauren McCarthy – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• p5.js

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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.

Featuring:

• Henry Zhu – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• babel js editor

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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.

Featuring:

• Daniel Bachhuber – Website, GitHub
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• WP-CLI: Command line interface for WordPress

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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 – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Tim O’Reilly: Official Bio
• Free Software Foundation - working together for free software
• OSCON

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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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• 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 – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
• mochajs/mocha on GitHub
• Mocha on GitHub
• Mocha on Open Collective
• Mocha on npm

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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.

Featuring:

• Ryan Bigg – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• The Asset Pipeline Guide
• Ryan Bigg on _theInitialCommit

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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.

Featuring:

• Todd Gamblin – GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• LLNL’s Website
• LLNL on GitHub
• Spack
• Exascale
• NumFOCUS
• Livermore Computing
• DOE National Laboratories
• ASC program
• LDRD
• SBIR

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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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• 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:

• Evan You – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

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

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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 was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.

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• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.

• The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
• The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
• If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
• Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
• Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
• Funding the Web with Brendan Eich

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Brendan Eich, founder of Brave and creator of JavaScript, joined the show to talk about the history of the web, how it has been funded, and the backstory on the early browser wars and emerging monetization models. We also talked about why big problems are hard to solve for the Internet and the tradeoffs between centralization and distribution.

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• Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at [email protected] for a personal introduction to Toptal.
• Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!

Featuring:

• Brendan Eich – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Check out exploit kits like Angler Exploit Kit
• Brave

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