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The FOSS Pod
by Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
From the team that brought you Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, The FOSS Pod is a show about the free and open source software that’s changing the world, and the developers who are making it happen.
Episodes
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Pine64 With Lukasz Erecinski
Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects around, delivering a wide range of low-cost and modifiable products including smart phones and watches, laptops, earbuds, soldering irons, and plenty more, all based on ARM and RISC-V. Senior advisor Lukasz Erecinski joins us on this...
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Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton
With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of single-board computers, and it's also a great gateway into the world of open source. For this ep, we spoke to none other than co-founder and CEO Eben Upton about every Pi-related...
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Debian Linux With Jonathan Carter
We couldn't do a podcast about open source without exploring a major Linux distribution, and there's hardly a more influential or enduring distro out there than Debian. So we're delighted to be joined on this episode by the current Debian Project Leader, Jonathan Carter, who spoke with us about a...
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Inkscape With Martin Owens
Martin Owens joins us on this episode to talk about the popular open source vector graphics package Inkscape, where he serves as both a developer and a member of the project's leadership committee. Martin shares his perspective on everything from the position of Inkscape in the digital creative...
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MiSTer FPGA With José Tejada Gómez
The MiSTer project is the most exciting thing going in classic video game emulation, and José Tejada Gómez--better known as jotego--is one of the developers at the forefront of this open-source effort to revive dozens of old game consoles and computers. José joins us for a fascinating chat about...
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Audacity With Martin Keary
The classic open source audio editor Audacity has been around for over two decades, but the Muse Group and product head Martin Keary only came onto the project within the last two years. In this ep we talked to Martin about his extensive background in UX and how he's bringing that expertise to a...
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Samba With Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison has been working in open source almost as long as "open source" has existed, largely on the Samba project that facilitates filesharing between Windows and the Unix world. In this ep we chatted with Jeremy not just about where Samba has been and where it's going, but also a wide…
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OctoPrint With Gina Häußge
3D printing has come a long way in a short time, and the open-source web interface OctoPrint has been easing and extending the 3D printing experience for a decade now. On this ep we had a fascinating chat with creator and maintainer Gina Häußge about the project, covering topics like the work…
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Blender With Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez
We briefly covered Blender in our sixth episode, and now it's time to delve deep into the past, present and future of this sprawling 3D animation package with team members Pablo Vazquez and Dalai Felinto, who walk us through Blender's closed-source origins and early crowdfunding efforts, the...
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VLC With Jean-Baptiste Kempf
If you're reading this, odds are good you've used VLC before. The most capable video player out there got its start in surprising ways, and on this ep we're joined by project founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf to talk about both VLC's origins and everything else, from '90s MPEG2 decoder hardware to the...
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curl With Daniel Stenberg
The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devices around the world. For this ep we had a wide ranging conversation with Daniel Stenberg, curl's longtime author and maintainer, about starting up...
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Home Assistant With Paulus Schoutsen
Home Assistant is the one-stop shop to control every single smart home and IoT device you own. It's also one of the biggest open source projects around, and for this ep we sat down with its founder Paulus Schoutsen to talk about where the project is at and where it's going, how he's backing an...
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3D Movie Maker With Foone Turing
Foone Turing regularly performs feats of retro-computing resurrection on Twitter, but convincing Microsoft to release the source code for its classic '90s animation program 3D Movie Maker may be their greatest achievement to date. We sat down with Foone to talk about their plans for expanding…
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Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra
Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more people than at the Wikimedia Foundation. On this ep Abbey joins us to talk about what human-centered design research means, methodologies for...
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Open-Source Alternatives
Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we check in with what's new in some of the biggest open-source creative applications like Blender, Audacity, and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, plus…
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Project North Star With Bryan Chris Brown
We've often said that open source is for more than just software, and on this episode Project North Star's Bryan Chris Brown is here to prove it with a freely available, modifiable design for an augmented reality headset you can build yourself. Join us for a discussion about topics like the ins…
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Open Source 101
By popular request, we're getting as fundamental as we can in this episode with a back-to-basics primer on as many open source concepts as we could come up with, which we hope will lay the groundwork for future episodes. Ever wonder about the difference between a branch and a fork, the ways...
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The FOSS Pod Manifesto
Three episodes in, we figured it was about time that we talk over our own origins with open source software, and then ponder the present and (attempt to) predict the future of FOSS for everyday people. Listen on for some reminiscing about Sparcstations, Will's time in a penguin suit, and our...
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Getting Started With Network Attached Storage
Building a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached storage options like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and Proxmox, plus dishing out some practical tips about why...
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OBS With Jim Bailey
Jim Bailey wanted a way to stream StarCraft – so he wrote his own software to do it. From humble origins, the Open Broadcaster Software has become the de facto standard for streaming video online, and we sat down with Jim to talk about the present and future of OBS, what it’s like maintaining…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
From the team that brought you Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, The FOSS Pod is a show about the free and open source software that’s changing the world, and the developers who are making it happen.
HOSTED BY
Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith
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From the team that brought you Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, The FOSS Pod is a show about the free and open source software that’s changing the world, and the developers who are making it happen.
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