JSJ 290: Open Source Software with Dirk Hohndel - VMWare Chief Open Source Officer

Panel: Charles Max WoodAimee KnightCorey HouseJoe EamesSpecial Guests: In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Dirk Hohndel about Open Source Software. Dirk is the Chief Open Source Officer at VMWare and has been working with open source for over 20 years. Dirk duties as the Chief Open Source Officer is to engage with the open source community and help promote the development between the community, companies, and customers.Dirk provides historical facts about open sources to current processes. The discussion covers vision and technological advances with languages, security, and worries of using open source software, view/consumption and burnout on maintaining a project. This is a great episode to learn about more different avenues of Open Source.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:What does the Chief Open Source Officer do?What is really different and has stayed the same in open source?Technological advancesGood engineering and looking ahead or forward100 million lines of code running a car…This is in everything..Production environmentsSecurityBugs in the software and the security issuesScaling and paying attentionWhere should we be worried about open sourceNotation and data setsWrite maintainable softwareHow does VMWare think about open source?View and Consumption of open sourceThe burnout of open source projects - how to resolve this abandonmentTo much work to maintain open source  - not a money issueScaling the team workload not the moneyContribution and giving backCompanies who do and don’t welcome open sourceWhat to do to make a project open source?Adopting an APIAnd much more!Links:@_drikhhVMWareDrikhh - everywhere!https://github.com/dirkhhPicks:AimeeDe Contact Dodow DirkTrack This Critical ThinkingCharlesNicholas Zakas - Books CoreyFun Fun Function ShowJoeDice ForgeConcept of empathy  Special Guest: Dirk Hohndel. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.