This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important.

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00:50 Intro

Steve is in Vegas
Noah "getting deals"

04:37 Lossless Cut

Reached for Avidemux
Avoiding re-encoding
Learning a new program
Lossless Cut Webpage
Lossless Cut GitHub

08:30 OmniTools

Small docker image
Does everything in the web browser
OmniTools GitHub

12:43 NLSH

For people who want to learn the CLI
Translates natural language into CLI
Making things easy can backfire
NLSH GitHub

16:00 Xyops

Features:
- Job scheduling
- Workflow automation
- Server monitoring
- Alerting
- Incident response
Self Hosted
Open Source
Xyops

18:18 News Wire

Squid 7.4 - github.com
Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org
Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org
GNU C lwn.net
Extix - linux.exton.net
Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com
CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org
GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org
MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org
Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com
Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca
AI Weather Models - kqed.org
Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com
Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com
OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com

19:55 Python Built-in Web Server

Use python to host a web server
Used for file transfers
Use case
Steve's travel router

24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA

Basics of the problem
grahamhelton.com

26:30 Matter Camera

1920x1080 30fps
Synology App to turn a phone into a camera
linuxgizmos.com

30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI

Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys
~ 20 requests per year
Home users forced to upload keys
Jump through hoops to avoid uploading
Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys
Pragmatism
aardwolfsecurity.com
ArsTechnica

35:20 Linux Continuity

Continuity document merged into Kernel docs
theregister.com

36:40 John Terrill

PR in open source
Branding open source
One size fits all projects
Extracting technical knowledge
Technical accuracy
How to talk with journalists
Separating personal views from project views
Negative coverage
Messaging guidelines
Branding and marketing
Attracting media attention

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