ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source
from Changelog Interviews
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew Sanabria (former Engineer at HashiCorp working on Terraform Enterprise), Nithya Ruff (Chief Open Source Officer and Head of the Open Source Program Office at Amazon) & Jordan Harband (Open Source Maintainer-at-large with dependencies in most JavaScript apps out there. There has been many changes this year in open source, and each of these perspectives lends insight into challenging and changing waters happening right now in open source.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:38 Sponsor: Convex
- 4:53 It's Matthew Sanabria
- 6:02 Sounds like Tofu
- 6:28 OpenTofu from the inside
- 8:29 Is this a wise move?
- 9:23 Communicating with the community
- 10:16 One of the motivating factors for leaving
- 10:48 Inside the Enterprise bubble
- 11:55 Vibes on this change
- 12:42 Backlash on Slack message on OpenTofu
- 14:58 Excited about working at Cockroach Labs
- 15:48 I'm mad about the lack of transparency
- 16:45 Licensing Tool vs Services
- 18:18 Playing with OpenTofu
- 19:36 Dedicated resouces for Teraform vs OpenTofu?
- 21:19 Logos vs dedicated support
- 22:37 Will you be a contributor?
- 23:20 Thoughts on Dagger and System Initiative
- 27:09 Ops guy who likes TypeScript?
- 30:08 That was fun
- 30:51 Sponsor: .Tech Domains
- 35:07 It's Nithya Ruff
- 37:19 Leading the OSPO of OSPOs at Amazon
- 40:05 Amazon and open source
- 42:28 Enabling business units to adopt open source
- 44:35 When was your OSPO started?
- 47:47 What are your challenges?
- 50:16 Working in open source for 20 years
- 52:13 The initial pitch for an open source office
- 54:35 Working with the OSPO to open source something
- 59:45 Darlings of Amazon open source
- 1:00:49 Sponsor: Statsig
- 1:04:13 It's Jordan Harband
- 1:05:29 When is Temporal coming?
- 1:09:37 Is Moment.js obsolete?
- 1:10:54 Are you making money?
- 1:13:03 Most used vs most supported
- 1:14:02 Filtering money to transitive dependencies
- 1:16:30 Examining the uptick
- 1:18:18 What happens if nothing changes?
- 1:20:23 Will you quit? Will you break?
- 1:21:39 Thanks.dev and Tidelift
- 1:24:16 Have you considered Sponsorware?
- 1:29:13 Income streams from open source
- 1:30:12 Tidelift's model of supporting all dependencies
- 1:31:04 It takes an outsized level of reach
- 1:31:50 What would you change?
- 1:35:37 Let's shill your links
- 1:36:21 Outro and ++
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