Changelog Master Feed ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Changelog Interviews #259)
This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).
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Featuring:
- Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
- Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
- Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
- Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.
When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.
- Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
- The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
- “I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
- “Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen
Safia Abdalla
Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.
- Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
- captainsafia/legit
- captainsafia/goopshttps
- captainsafia/commentator
- captainsafia/checklist
- Brief
- captainsafia/giddy
- captainsafia/fony
- Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal
Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!