The ReadME Podcast

Co-maintaining openness

Feb 14, 2023

35:23

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Episode notes

Do You Remember What Your First Computer Was?

01:15

What's the Benefit of the Apple Newton?

01:49

The Internet Archiving Side Is Important as Well

03:15

Introduction

2min

How to Find a Mentor

2min

How India Made Its Own Supercomputer

2min

The Price Tag of the Param 8,000

2min

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Collaboration

2min

Calva and the Team That Was Collaborative

2min

GitHub's Notification System

2min

Is Concurrency Important?

2min

Calvah

2min

10.

Is There Any One Thing That You Could Change About Calvah?

1min

11.

Building a Community When You Open Source a Project

3min

12.

Do You Remember What Your First Computer Was?

1min

13.

Retro Computing

2min

14.

What's the Benefit of the Apple Newton?

2min

15.

Gopher Is a Simple Computer Architecture

2min

16.

The Internet Archiving Side Is Important as Well

3min

17.

What's in the Archive?

4min

Here’s what’s in store for this episode:

00:00 - The hosts discuss how to impress and win over the heart of a developer in your life.
02:30 - First Commit: How India built the PARAM 8000 supercomputer.
06:07 - The Interview: Peter Strömberg and Brandon Ringe, the co-maintainers of Calva, discuss the benefits of sharing responsibility for open source maintainership.
18:18 - #AskRMP: We learn from Jana Iris about best practices for community building from scratch.
21:15 - Feature Release: The ReadME Project’s Klint Finley shares what we can learn from vintage computing.

Looking for more stories and advice from the open source community? To learn more from the authors and experts featured on this episode, check out:

Building super fans through genuine human connections by Jana Iris
Agical, Peter Strömberg’s employer and open source sponsor.
The modern web’s underrated powerhouse by Klint Finley
Enterprise code migration with developer happiness in mind by Prince Shekhar Valluri (LinkedIn)
Move past incident response to reliability by Will Larson

Special thanks to Jana Iris for sharing her thoughts on getting started with OSS community building. Also, thank you to Peter Strömberg and Brandon Ringe, co-maintainers of Calva, for providing their insight on collaborative maintainership and how building together can benefit the community.