All Episodes
Sustain — 290 episodes
Episode 289: Courtney Miller on Maintainer Burnout and Software Abandonment
Episode 288: Uni students and OSS with Jeff Young & Daniel Shown
Episode 287: Alan Rubin on MaveDB
Episode 286: Jack Skinner of PyCon AU and Regional Confs
Episode 285: Miranda Heath on Altruism & Burnout in Open Source
Episode 284: Devconnect 2025 with Trent Van Epps
Episode 283: Devconnect 2025 with Nuno Loureiro
Episode 282: Devconnect 2025 with Lucas Fada
Episode 281: Devconnect 2025 with Devansh Mehta
Episode 280: Devconnect 2025 with Nixo Rokish
Episode 279: Devconnect 2025 with Shubhranshu Choudhary
Episode 278: Devconnect 2025 with Mário Havel
Episode 277: Rynn Mancuso, Maryblessing Okolie & Mo McElaney on Ethicalsource.dev
Episode 276: Dawn Wages and Loren Crary on funding the PSF
Episode 275: Richard J. Acton on Research Software Sharing, Publication, & Distribution Checklists (RSSPDC)
Episode 274: Qianqian Ye on p5.js
Episode 273: Maintainer Month 2025 with Federico Mena Quintero on GNOME
Episode 272: Maintainer Month 2025 with Sarah Rainsberger of Astro
Episode 271: Maintainer Month 2025 with Kade Morton on Cybersecurity
Episode 270: Ben Nickolls & Andrew Nesbitt on Ecosyste.ms
Episode 269: Marianne Bellotti & Greg Wilson on 10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job
Episode 268: Maintainer Month 2025 with Dirkjan Ochtman on Sustaining Critical Rust Libraries
Episode 267: Michelle Barker on the Research Software Alliance (ReSA)
Episode 266: Sustain OSS Virtual Event: Recap!
Episode 265: Sean Goggins on Sustainability through CHAOSS
Episode 264: Neil Chue Hong on the Software Sustainability Institute
Episode 263: Alison Hill on Product Management in Open Source
Episode 262: Brian Muenzenmeyer on Approachable Open Source
Episode 261: Alexander Petros on htmx and sustainable, simpler tools
Episode 260: Robert Douglass and contributing as a corporation to OSS
Episode 259: Giulio Carvalho on Civic Tech and Querido Diário
Episode 258: Devin Stein on using AI to maintain OSS with Dosu
Episode 257: Kailash Nadh and Zerodha's FLOSS/Fund and funding.json
Episode 256: Thomas Karagianes & Jonathan Romano on crowd-sourcing RNA research with Eterna
Episode 255: Caleb Connolly & Pablo Correa Gómez on postmarketOS
Episode 254: Batool Almarzouq on Localizing Open Source Communities
Episode 253: Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky on the Public Knowledge Project and Open Journal Systems
Episode 252: Nolan Lawson of PouchDB on what it feels like to be a maintainer
Episode 251: Gina Häußge of OctoPrint on Crowd-funding OSS
Episode 250: Jules Barros Lima on building diversity into open source communities
Episode 249: Why work with writers in Open Source? With Jenn Turner
Episode 248: Lorenzo Sciandra and Mirko Swillus on STF's "Fellowship for Maintainers" Program
Episode 247: Chad Whitacre on the Open Source Pledge
Episode 246: Divya Mohan of SUSE on CHAOSS Asia
Episode 245: Brian Douglas of Open Sauced on Sustainability through Effective Metrics
Episode 244: Jan Lehnardt & Alba Herrerías Ramírez of Neighbourhood.ie
Episode 243: Elizabeth Barron, Luis Cañas-Diaz & Dawn Foster on CHAOSS Practitioner Guides
Episode 242: Ben Cotton on Program Management for Open Source Projects
Episode 241: Tracy Hinds & Ashley Williams on Open Source Funding and Inequities
Episode 240: Yo Yehudi on OLS and open science
Episode 239: Deb Goodkin of FreeBSD
Episode 238: Julia Evans and Wizard Zines
Episode 237: OSS for Climate Podcast Crossover: Max Jones on Carbon Plan
Episode 236: Eva Maxfield Brown & Boris Veytsman on OSS Dependencies in the Sciences
Episode 235: The State of Open Infrastructure 2024, from IOI with Emmy Tsang
Episode 234: Simon Vansintjan on Mirlo
Episode 233: Dr. Carlotta A. Berry on Diversity in STEM
Episode 232: Susan Kennedy on Open Technology Fund (OTF)
Episode 231: OSCA 2023 with Velda Kiara on her Open Source Journey
Episode 230: Kari L. Jordan on The Carpentries
Episode 229: OSCA 2023 with Stephen Okonkwo on Design and OSCA Festival
Episode 228: Yani Bellini Saibene on better scientific coding communities
Episode 227: OSCA 2023 with Adewale “Ace” Abati on Made. In. Nigeria.
Episode 226: Jacob Kaplan-Moss on Compensating Open Source Maintainers (but not that way)
Episode 225: OSCA 2023 with Subomi Oluwalana on Convoy
Episode 224: Ciarán O’Riordan on the EU's Cyber Resiliency Act
Episode 223: OSCA 2023 with Mannie William Young on the Python community in Ghana & PyCon Africa
Episode 222: Nathan Schneider on his new book "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life"
Episode 221: Malvika Sharan on the The Turing Way
Episode 220: FOSSY 2023 with Angie Byron
Episode 219: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Festival 2023
Episode 218: Karthik Ram & James Howison on Research Software Visibility Infrastructure Priorities
Episode 217: Heather Meeker on her latest book, "From Project to Profit: How to Succeed in Commercial Open Source"
Episode 216: Mohammed Shah on TOS Violations for Open Source Projects
Episode 215: Joe Castle on Code.gov
Episode 214: Dr. Laura Dornheim on Munich's open source journey
Episode 213: Chad Whitacre on Sponsoring $500,000 to Open Source
Episode 212: Carlos Martinez-Ortiz & Shoaib Sufi on WoSSS (Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability)
Episode 211: FOSSY 2023 with Kyle Wiens
Episode 210: Dr. Bryan Behrenshausen on GitLab
Episode 209: Amanda Casari, Julie Ferraioli & Juniper Lovato and open source ecosystems research
Episode 208: FOSSY 2023 with Emily Omier
Episode 207: FOSSY 2023 with Karen Sandler
Episode 206: Sophia Vargas of Google on Funding and Motivation in Open Source
Episode 205: FOSSY 2023 with Richard Littauer
Episode 204: FOSSY 2023 with Adam Monsen
Episode 203: What’s wrong with CVEs? Daniel Stenberg of cURL wants you to know
Episode 202: Ben Hutton on JSON Schema
Episode 201: FOSSY 2023 with Josh Simmons
Episode 200: FOSSY 2023 with Stuart Geiger
Episode 199: Ben Hur Pintor on BNHR and SmartCT
Episode 198: FOSSY 2023 with Aaron Wolf
Episode 197: FOSSY 2023 with Joe Castle
Episode 196: FOSSY 2023 with Vagrant Cascadian
Episode 195: FOSSY 2023 with Denver Gingerich
Episode 194: FOSSY 2023 with Timmy Barnett & Devin Ulibarri
Episode 193: FOSSY 2023 with Matthew Wild & Stephen Paul Weber
Episode 192: FOSSY 2023 with Erik Benner
Episode 191: FOSSY 2023 with Sam Whited
Episode 190: Karen M. Sandler on Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)
Episode 189: Otto Richter on Codeberg
Episode 188: Maintainer Month with Ruth Cheesley & Josh Goldberg
Episode 187: Karthik Ram on Research Software Sustainability
Episode 186: Yan Minagawa & Christian Paul at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 185: Daniel Stenberg on the cURL project
Episode 184: Omotola Eunice Omotayo & Jan Ainali at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 183: Nahuai Badiola on WordPress, W3C, and all of tech sustainability
Episode 182: Wolfgang Gehring & Ana Jiménez at FOSS Backstage
Episode 181: John Robb of React Flow on how we ask for money in open source
Episode 180: Gregor Bransky at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 179: Maintainer Month with GitHub's Martin Woodward
Episode 178: Maintainer Month with Predrag Gruevski & Kingsley Mkpandiok
Episode 177: Lisa Caywood from RedHat's OSPO on working with code communities
Episode 176: Maintainer Month with Russell Keith-Magee & Uriel Ofir
Episode 175: Serkan Holat on Agile Public Funds
Episode 174: Maintainer Month with Bob Killen & Navendu Pottekkat
Episode 173: Nick Vidal & Masae Shida at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 172: Maintainer Month 2023 with Sarah Boyce & David Blass
Episode 171: Chris Baker & Stephen Jacobs on Open@RIT
Episode 170: Smera Goel & Dotan Horovits at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 169: Dawn Wages of PSF on organizing communities, ethical licenses, and more
Episode 168: Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 167: Paul Berschick & Oleg Nenashev at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 166: Thomas Steenbergen & Josep Prat at FOSS Backstage 2023
Episode 165: Hugi Ásgeirsson, Silona Bonewald & Marco Möller at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 164: Derek Kozel & Abby Cabunoc Mayes at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 163: Ana Jiménez Santamaría & Samson Goddy at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 162: Colin Eberhardt & Eriol Fox at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 161: Aaron Crawfis on Dapr and Sustaining Cloud OSS
Episode 160: Andy Piper, Ana Meta Dolinar & Gemma Penson at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 159: Dawn Foster & Andrew Nesbitt at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 158: Ruth Cheesley & Mike Nolan at State of Open Con 2023
Episode 157: Joel Wasserman on lessons learned with Flossbank
Episode 156: Paul Berschick and FOSS Backstage 2023 in Berlin
Episode 155: Yadira Sánchez Benítez on creating liberatory, pluriversal spaces in Open Source
Episode 154: Clare Dillon of InnerSource Commons on OSPOs and the Open Ireland Network
Episode 153: Kailash Nadh and the FOSS United Foundation
Episode 152: Dudley Carr and Wes Carr on StackAid
Episode 151: Announcement! Sustain Session @ State of Open Con 2023 in london
Episode 150: Dustin Ingram and the Open Source Security Team at Google
Episode 149: Naytri Sramek on the GitHub Accelerator and M12 GitHub Fund
Episode 148: Ali Nehzat of thanks.dev and OSS Funding
Episode 147: Jan Ainali and the Foundation for Public Code
Episode 146: Anjana Vakil on the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Learning to Code
Episode 145: Ashley Williams on Open Source Software Sustainability
Episode 144: Simon Minton of Ringer on Empowering Individual Contributors
Episode 143: Amanda Brock of OpenUK on Open Source Law, Policy and Practice
Episode 142: Nicholas Zakas on Sponsoring Dependencies, All The Way Down
Episode 141: Melissa Mendonça on being a Developer Experience Engineer for scientific OSS
Episode 140: Courtney Miller and Hongbo Fang on Toxicity and Information Flow in Open Source Communities
Episode 139: Manuel Riel on PikaPods, a container hosting service for open source apps
Episode 138: Ruth Cheesley, the Mautic Project Lead at Acquia, on Building and Growing Open Source Communities
Episode 137: A How-to Guide for Contributing to Open Source as an Employee, for Corporations
Episode 136: Daniel S. Katz on the Research Software Alliance (ReSA)
Episode 135: Tracy Hinds on Node.js's CommComm and PMs in Open Source
Episode 134: Cornelius Schumacher on being an Open Source Steward at DB Systel
Episode 133: Sustain and CHAOSS: A Joint Podcast
Episode 132: Ana Jiménez Santamaría on OSPOs and the TODO Group
Episode 131: Bolaji Ayodeji on Open Source Community Africa (OSCA)
Episode 130: OSCA, Docs, and Burnout with Anita Ihuman and Atinuke Oluwabamikemi Kayode (Bami)
Episode 129: Per Ploug and the Spotify FOSS Fund
Episode 128: Sustain Hosts: What Does Sustain Mean?
Episode 127: GitHub Maintainer Month with Marie Kochsiek of drip and Hélène Martin of ODK
Episode 126: GitHub Maintainer Month with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew and Nina Breznik of DatDot
Episode 125: Astor Nummelin Carlberg of OFE on the Economic Impact of Open Source
Episode 124: Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source Contributions
Episode 123: Colin Eberhardt of Scott Logic on Software Sustainability
Episode 122: A conversation with Stefano Maffulli of the OSI
Episode 121: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Cornelius Schumacher, Yadira Sánchez Benítez & Thomas Fricke
Episode 120: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Rich Bowen & Paul Berschick
Episode 119: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Ana Jiménez Santamaría and McCoy Smith
Episode 118: FOSS Backstage 2022 with Florian Gilcher & Silona Bonewald
Episode 117: Mike McQuaid of Homebrew on Sustainably Working on OSS Projects
Episode 116: Álvaro Trigo of fullPage.js, on making a living using OSS
Episode 115: Emily Shaffer: Paid OSS Software Development on the Git project
Episode 114: Chris Coleman and the Clinic for Open Source Arts (COSA)
Episode 113: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift on the MLH Fellowship program
Episode 112: Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice
Episode 111: Amanda Casari on ACROSS and Measuring Contributions in OSS
Episode 110: Impactful Open Source: Teaching Open Source Technology Managers at Brandeis, with Ken Udas and Georg Link
Episode 109: Dries Buytaert of Drupal on Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
Episode 108: Sarah Gran and Josh Aas: Sustainable Digital Infrastructure with Memory Safe Code
Episode 107: Caroline Sinders on building healthy OSS Communities
Episode 106: Rodrigo Mendoza on Quine and GitNFT
Episode 105: John Amaral and Kyle Quest on Slim.ai
Episode 104: Duane O’Brien and Mandy Grover on Investing in Open Source: The FOSS Contributor Fund
Episode 103: Samuel Wein on OpenMS and Mass Spectrometry
Episode 102: Ele Diakomichalis and Radicle
Episode 101: Nicholas Zakas and ESLint
Episode 100: Sustain #100: Only Hosts, on who we are, where we came from, and where we're going
Episode 99: Matt Mankins and giving Kudos to OSS maintainers
Episode 98: Silona Bonewald and her long-term vision for IEEE and open source
Episode 97: Anthony Ronda and the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers, games, and Open Source
Episode 96: Chad Whitacre and how Sentry is giving $150k to their OSS Dependencies
Episode 95: Marko Saric of Plausible Analytics, the most popular Open Source analytics platform
BONUS - Sustain our Docs Pilot Episode
Episode 94: Josh Montgomery and the Patent Trolls
Episode 93: Dan Lorenc and OSS Supply Chain Security at Google
Episode 92: Niels ten Oever on Human Rights, Open Source, and Digital Infrastructure
Episode 91: Brazil JavaMan Souza on Open Source and the history of Java
Episode 90: Logan Kilpatrick and the Julia community
Episode 89: Leslie Hawthorn, OSPOs, Digital Sovereignty, and Cultivating Open Source Communities
Episode 88: Foundations Roundtable: From Maintain to Sustain
Episode 87: Ewa Jodlowska, Jackie Augustine, and how the PSF managed PyCon during COVID
Episode 86: Kavita Kapoor and HFOSS: Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software
Episode 85: Geoffrey Huntley and Sustaining OSS with Gitpod
Episode 84: Jono Bacon on Building Sustainable Communities
Episode 83: Dominic Nguyen on Chromatic, Storybook.js, and building self-sustaining OSS projects
Episode 82: Steve Helvie and the Open Compute Project
Episode 81: Mae Beale and Using Open Source for Good
Episode 80: Emma Irwin and the FOSS Fund Program
Episode 79: Leah Silen on how NumFocus helps makes scientific code more sustainable
Episode 78: Stormy Peters: Sustaining FLOSS at Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office
Episode 77: Jordan Harband: Being a Sustainable Maintainer of Hundreds of Projects
Episode 76: Tobie Langel on what people mean when they say "Open Source"
Episode 75: Deb Nicholson on the OSI, the future of open source, and SeaGL
Episode 74: Jory Burson of OpenJS on building sustainable open source communities
Episode 73: Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran on using Bounties for Open Source Software
Episode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and Sustain
Episode 71: Hong Phuc Dang, founder of FOSSAsia, on how to build communities across boundaries
Episode 70: Avi Press and Scarf
Episode 69: Humanitarian Open Source with Michael Nolan
Episode 68: Introducing FundOSS.org: A new way of funding open source, by Gitcoin x Sustain
Episode 67: Ryan Sipes and Building Community at Thunderbird
Episode 66: Eric Holscher of Read The Docs, Write The Docs, and Ethical Ads
Episode 65: CHAOSS and Sustain: A Joint Podcast
Episode 64: Travis Oliphant and Russell Pekrul on NumPy, Anaconda, and giving back with FairOSS
Episode 63: Tobias Augspurger on ProtonTypes, LibreSelery, and Environmentally Sustainable Open Source
Episode 62: Richard Fontana on the Legal Side of Open Source
Episode 61: Melissa Logan on Marketing Open Source Effectively and Sustainably
Episode 60: Erik Rasmussen on the hard work of maintaining, marketing, and funding open source libraries
Episode 59: Jenn Schiffer on Satire, Coding, Why Teaching OSS Is Super Important
Episode 58: Joel Wasserman on Flossbank and Sustainably Giving Back to Dependencies
Episode 57: Mikeal Rogers on Building Communities, the Early Days of Node.js, and How to Stay a Coder for Life
Episode 56: Dominic Tarr on Coding What You Want, Living On A Boat, and the Early Days of Node.js
Episode 55: André Staltz on Open Source Going to Zero and Developing Below The Poverty Line
Episode 54: Danese Cooper on the History of Open Source, InnerSource, and What's Next
Episode 53: What the Fork? Shurui Zou on Forking in Open Source
Episode 52: Being Willing to be Open: Twenty Years of Coding at Red Hat, with Tom "Spot" Callaway
Episode 51: Working in Public: Nadia Eghbal and her new book about Making and Sustaining Open Source Software
Episode 50: Gitcoin, Quadratic Funding, and how Crypto can sustain Open Source
Episode 49: What OpenUK Does with Amanda Brock & Andrew Katz
Episode 48: Security and Cryptography with Nadim Kobeissi
Episode 47: People and Relationships with Matt Asay
Episode 46: Commercial Open Source with Joseph Jacks
Episode 45: The Meaning of 'Tyranny of Openness' with Nathan Schneider
Episode 44: Crossing The Chasm with Tobie Langel
Episode 43: Investing in Open Infrastructure with Kaitlin Thaney
Episode 42: Open Sourcing COVID-19 Data with Cindy Wang & Gil Yehuda
Episode 41: The Donut Diet, Commitments, and More Awesomeness with Dave Gandy
Episode 40: How Open Source Maintainers Don't Get Rich with Bogdan Vasilescu
Episode 39: How $2 Million Dollars Helped Build CROSS with Dr. Carlos Maltzahn
Episode 38: Working Group Updates with Justin & Javi
Episode 37: An Open Source History Lesson & More with Patrick Masson
Episode 36: The Open Source Movement Shift with María Cruz
Episode 35: Why The Drupal Community Cares with Rachel Lawson
Episode 34: Staying Hum-Babel with Henry Zhu
Episode 33: Getting Money for Awesome Icons with Dave Gandy
Episode 32: What FOSS Responders Does with Megan Sanicki & Duane O’Brien
Episode 31: Practicing Self-Empathy with Whitney Hess
Episode 30: Silver Linings in The FOSS Community
Episode 29: How License Zero Works with Kyle Mitchell
Episode 28: What "OpenStreetMap US" is with Maggie Cawley & Alyssa Wright
Episode 27: Creating Dracula PRO with Blood, Sweat, and Tears with Zeno Rocha
Episode 26: The Data Behind Open Source is CHAOSS with Georg Link
Episode 25: Creating a Support Network for Maintainers with Don Goodman-Wilson
Episode 24: Securing the FOSS Ecosystem with Gareth Rushgrove
Episode 23: Why Companies Should Invest Money in Open Source with Josh Simmons
Episode 22: Teaching the Future Open Source Programmers with Ibiam Chihurumnaya
Episode 21: How Playing Minecraft Opened a Door to the Open Source World with Justin W. Flory
Episode 20: The Keys to Open Source Sustainability with Gidi Morris
Episode 19: Recovering Software Engineer to a Believer in Open Source with Gunner
Episode 18: How The Python Software Foundation Works with Ewa Jodlowska
Episode 17: How Formidable Supports Open Source With Lorenzo Sciandra
Episode 16: Changing Open Source Culture With Serkan Holat
Episode 15: Open Source Leadership With Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
Episode 14: Funding Open Source With Gitcoin
Episode 13: Elevating Musicians Through Open Source with Robert Kaye
Episode 12: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls
Episode 11: Diversity in Open Source with Laura Gaetano
Episode 10: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer
Episode 9: The Trade-Offs of Using Open Source with Lou Huang
Episode 8: Writing Good Documentation with Chris Ward
Episode 7: Sustaining Open Source Projects in the International Development and Humanitarian Sector with Heath Arensen
Episode 6: Open Source Software Maintenance Lessons Learned with Bastien Guerry
Episode 5: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui
Episode 4: Open Source Community Activities Around the World with Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta
Episode 3: Greg Bloom discusses the Principles of Commons Governance
Episode 2: Is GitHub Sponsors Good for OSS?
Episode 1: Funding Open-Source Projects