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Publisher |: Changelog Media

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Interview,; Software How-To,; Technology,; Web Development

Categories Via RSS |: Software How-To,; Tech News,; Technology

Request For Commits explored different perspectives in open source sustainability (retired). Hosts Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers dive deep into the trials and tribulations of being an open source maintainer, building communities, and navigating the business side of software. Common topics include software licensing, copyright, documentation, governance models, funding platforms such as Open Collective, Kickstarter, etc., measuring success, and more.

People |: Nadia Eghbal (@nayafia),; Mikeal Rogers (@mikeal)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: San Francisco, CA
Premiere Date |: 2016-08-04
Finale date |: 2018-03-21
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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21 Available Episodes (21 Total) / Average duration: 01:06:07

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21 Available Episodes (21 Total)Average duration: 01:06:07

Mar 21, 2018

00:42:31

In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place now and in the future. This might be the end of this podcast, but the conversation will continue on The Changelog. You should subscribe if you’re not already.

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Featuring:

Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? for-commits-20.md">PRs welcome!

Jan 19, 2018

01:10:17

Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isn’t better represented in open source.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

Featuring:

Lauren McCarthy – Twitter, GitHub, mccarthy.com/">Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

p5.js

Something missing or broken? for-commits-19.md">PRs welcome!

Jan 19, 2018

01:02:12

Henry Zhu joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on Babel, how he became and accidental maintainer, why he thinks maintainers aren’t special, paid open source work, the Babel brand, and building community.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

Featuring:

Henry Zhu – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

babel js editor

Something missing or broken? for-commits-18.md">PRs welcome!

Jan 19, 2018

01:12:41

Daniel Bachhuber joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on wp-cli, the economics, origins, staying productive as a maintainer, fund raising, and the state of wp-cli today.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

Featuring:

Daniel Bachhuber – GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

cli.org/">WP-CLI: Command line interface for WordPress

Something missing or broken? for-commits-17.md">PRs welcome!

Nov 22, 2017

01:19:33

Danese Cooper joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the history of open source, how the term became a thing via Tim O’Reilly, feeling empowered as an open source contributor, companies’ relationship to open source, foundations and their role (or not) in governance and sustainability.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

Danese Cooper – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Tim O’Reilly: Official Bio
Free Software Foundation - working together for free software
OSCON

Something missing or broken? for-commits-16.md">PRs welcome!

Nov 01, 2017

00:58:44

Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

Christopher Hiller – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
mochajs/mocha on GitHub
Mocha on GitHub
Mocha on Open Collective
Mocha on npm

Something missing or broken? for-commits-15.md">PRs welcome!

Oct 20, 2017

01:05:16

Ryan Bigg joined the show to talk about his open source work on the documentation of Ruby on Rails, fund raising, crowd sourcing, departure, handing off, not quitting, making the right decision, getting paid, sustaining, and more.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

Ryan Bigg – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? for-commits-14.md">PRs welcome!

Jul 12, 2017

01:03:37

Todd Gamblin – a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab – tells Nadia and Mikeal all about bringing open source to his peers in the national labs. They discuss what it’s like to open source a project inside the government, how Todd found contributors for Spack, why he got involved with NumFOCUS, and much more.

Leave us a comment

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

Todd Gamblin – Twitter, GitHub
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? for-commits-13.md">PRs welcome!

Jun 15, 2017

01:01:24

Evan You joined the show to talk about his work on Vue.js. We learn how Evan found users and got Vue.js off the ground, the details behind their crowdfunding on Patreon, whether or not crowdfunding is a viable method of sustaining open source, finding balance in life and work, and plans for funding beyond the Patreon campaign.

Leave us a comment

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

Evan You – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Season 2 has begun! Evan You is the creator of Vue, a popular progressive JavaScript framework. He works on Vue full time with the funding from its Patreon campaign. He previously worked at Google and Meteor.

Vue.js - The progressive JavaScript framework
VueConf - The first official Vue.js conference in the world!
Vue.js on Patreon
Babel - Use next generation JavaScript, today.
Henry Zhu - Stay tuned to hear from Henry later on in season 2

Something missing or broken? for-commits-12.md">PRs welcome!

Dec 22, 2016

00:48:24

In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.

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Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Featuring:

Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.

The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
Funding the Web with Brendan Eich

Something missing or broken? for-commits-behind-season-one.md">PRs welcome!

Mar 21 | 00:42:31

Finale, thank you!

Jan 19 | 01:10:17

Design, software, and open source

Jan 19 | 01:02:12

Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time

Jan 19 | 01:12:41

Experiments and the Economics of Open Source

Nov 22 | 01:19:33

Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability

Nov 01 | 00:58:44

Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout

Oct 20 | 01:05:16

Documentation and Quitting Open Source

Jul 12 | 01:03:37

Open source and supercomputers (Spack)

Jun 15 | 01:01:24

Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)

Dec 22 | 00:48:24

BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2

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