
FLOSS Weekly (Audio)
We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.
Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.
Latest episodes

Jul 26, 2023 • 1h 9min
FLOSS Weekly 742: Endless Sky, Endless Fun - Open Source Game Development
Endless Sky is an open source game set in space with a great array of ships, settings, worlds, conditions, alien factions, and missions — plus a community of thousands. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds of Endless Sky about how and where the game, its community, and open source gaming itself are going.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guests: Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds
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Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Jul 19, 2023 • 1h 7min
FLOSS Weekly 741: This Is the F-Droid You're Looking For - Hans-Christoph Steiner, F-Droid
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an account and find only free and open source apps.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps
Guest: Hans-Christoph Steiner
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Jul 12, 2023 • 1h 10min
FLOSS Weekly 740: Baking the Printer - Jonathan Bennett: A Bad Face For Radio, IBM and Red Hat
Doc Searls and Ant Pruitt talk with Jonathan Bennett about life, love, open source, and what's up with Red Hat. Also, how to bake a printer?
Host: Doc Searls
Co-Host: Ant Pruitt
Guest: Jonathan Bennett
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Jul 5, 2023 • 59min
FLOSS Weekly 739: Whose AI Is It Anyway? - AI Security, Decentralized Identifiers
Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka talk with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly about big AI questions nobody else is asking—and getting deep and surprising answers, you won't want to miss.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman
Guests: Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Jun 28, 2023 • 1h 10min
FLOSS Weekly 738: Crossplane: Your Cockpit in the Cloud - Jared Watts, Nic Cope, Crossplane and Kubernetes
Jared Watts and Nic Cope, two founding engineers with Upbound and developers on Crossplane, join Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss control planes for Kubernetes and clouds.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guests: Jared Watts and Nic Cope
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsor:
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Jun 21, 2023 • 1h 14min
FLOSS Weekly 737: Live, LUG, and Rock On - Dan Lynch, Liverpool Linux User Group
Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Liverpool musician and FLOSS co-host Dan Lynch about music, events, LUGs and histories past and future.
Hosts: Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Dan Lynch
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
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Jun 14, 2023 • 1h 4min
FLOSS Weekly 736: Don't Fear The AI - David Sifry, AI and Open Source
David Sifry gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a deep, detailed, enthusiastic, and original take on what's up with AI from an open source angle. It's an interesting discussion on FLOSS Weekly.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman
Guest: David Sifry
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsor:
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Jun 7, 2023 • 1h 8min
FLOSS Weekly 735: FLOSS Without Borders - Ahmed Sobeh, Open Source in Developing Countries
Engineering Manager at Aiven, Ahmed Sobeh joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly. What new stuff is happening with open source development? Look to the developing world. That's what Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb learn from Ahmed Sobeh in a show packed with insights.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb
Guest: Ahmed Sobeh
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Sponsor:
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May 31, 2023 • 1h 4min
FLOSS Weekly 734: Organic Maps - Roman Tsisyk, Organic Maps
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Roman Tsisyk, founder and top maintainer of Organic Maps, an extremely active and exciting open source project for people who like or need to travel off line and in privacy.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman
Guest: Roman Tsisyk
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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May 24, 2023 • 1h 10min
FLOSS Weekly 733: Open Source Science - Tim Bonnemann, Open Source Science
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Tim Bonneman about how to help open-source science follow the road to success paved by open-source software development and build on lots of interesting and exciting work already going on.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch
Guest: Tim Bonnemann
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
kolide.com/floss
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