Jeff (jyoung3131.github.io) and Daniel (www.linkedin.com/in/danielsho...) join Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) and Eriol (@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social) to discuss academic OSPOs, students learning OSS, and mentorship. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/288

We're hosting a forum on AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability. If you're interested in exploring how AI is impacting FLOSS software and all those who work on it: join us for the next SustainOSS Virtual Forum on Thursday 11 June 2026. sustainoss.org/events/ai-fl...

We're hosting a forum on AI, FLOSS, and Sustainability. If you're interested in exploring how AI is impacting FLOSS software and all those who work on it: join us for the next SustainOSS Virtual Forum on Thursday 11 June 2026. sustainoss.org/events/ai-fl...

Alan Rubin (findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6680...) joins host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to discuss MaveDB (www.varianteffect.org/mavedb/) and how open source tools advance genetics and cancer research data access. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/287

Alan Rubin (findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/6680...) joins host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to discuss MaveDB (www.varianteffect.org/mavedb/) and how open source tools advance genetics and cancer research data access. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/287

Host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) talks with Jack (@gdayitsjack.bsky.social) about PyCon AU (2026.pycon.org.au) and how regional conferences build local connections, support new speakers, and help sustain open source communities. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/286

Miranda (@mirandaheath.website) joins host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to dive into altruism, maintainer motivation, and burnout in open source communities. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/285

Trent (www.linkedin.com/in/trenton-v...) joins hosts Eriol (www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/) and Victory (www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...) for a deep dive into Protocol Guild (www.protocolguild.org), and Ethereum’s (ethereum.org) unique finance. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/284

Nuno (nloureiro.com), together with hosts Eriol (www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/) and Victory (www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...), discusses digital design at ethereum.org, open source UX challenges, collaboration, trust, and community feedback. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/283

Lucas (www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-fada/) shares with Eriol (www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/) and Victory (www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...) startup insights, Drips Network (www.drips.network), and Web3 ecosystems (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3). Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/282

Devansh (x.com/TheDevanshMe...) joins Eriol (www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/) & Victory (www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...) to explore how to fund open-source infrastructure fairly and at scale. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/281

Eriol (www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/) and Victory (www.linkedin.com/in/victory-b...) talk with EF’s Nixo (x.com/nixorokish) on Ethereum (ethereum.org) governance, coordination, upgrades, and OSS. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/280

Shu Choudhary (www.linkedin.com/in/shubhrans...) dives into Democratic Media (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...), open source, Web3, and blockchain to democratize journalism and support independent media. Listen @ podcast.sustainoss.org/279

Mário Havel (github.com/taxmeifyoucan) explores Ethereum (ethereum.org) protocol support, Prague’s Bordell hackerspace (bordel.wtf), free software philosophy, open source sustainability, and crowd-loaning. Listen @ podcast.sustainoss.org/278

Rynn (www.linkedin.com/in/rynnmancu...), Maryblessing (linkedin.com/in/maryblessingokolie) & Mo (www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmc...) discuss OES (ethicalsource.dev) and Contributor Covenant 3.0 (www.contributor-covenant.org/version/3/0/...). Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/277

Dawn (dawnwages.info) and Loren (www.linkedin.com/in/loren-cra...) discuss sustaining Python (www.python.org/psf/), governance, fundraising, PyCon US (us.pycon.org/2026/), and rejecting a $1.5M NSF grant over anti-DEI terms. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/276

Host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social‬) talks with Richard Acton (richardjacton.net), a Data Outputs Manager, about Research Software Sharing, Publication, & Distribution Checklists (rsspdc.org) and the role of open science in improving research practices. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/275

Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social‬) talks with artist and technologist Qianqian “Q” Ye (qianqian-ye.com) about leading p5.js (p5js.org), open-source care work, decentralizing leadership, and building an inclusive, sustainable coding community. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/274

Host Richard (‪@richlitt.bsky.social‬) chats with Federico (viruta.org/pages/about....) about GIMP (www.gimp.org), GNOME’s (www.gnome.org) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273

Host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social‬) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (viruta.org/index.html) about GIMP (www.gimp.org), GNOME’s (www.gnome.org) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273

Hosts Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social), Abby (abbycabs.github.io), and Eriol (@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social‬) chat with Sarah Rainsberger (@sarah11918.rainsberger.ca‬) of Astro (astro.build) about her journey & using low-tech tools like Chromebooks for coding. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/272

Kade Morton (www.linkedin.com/in/kade-mort...) of Arachne Digital (www.arachne.digital) joins hosts Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) and Eriol (@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social) to delve into cybersecurity, open source security, and global digital threat contexts. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/271

Ben (www.linkedin.com/in/benjamuk/) and Andrew (nesbitt.io) join host Richard (‪@richlitt.bsky.social‬) to explore ecosyste.ms, a project using open source metadata to guide funding and support key projects with smart, ecosystem-aware algorithms. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/270

Marianne Bellotti (www.bellotti.tech) & Greg Wilson (third-bit.com) join host Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to dive into their new paper, “10 Quick Tips for Making Your Software Outlive Your Job” (arxiv.org/abs/2505.06484). Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/269

Kicking off our 2025 Maintainer Month series, Dirkjan Ochtman (dirkjan.ochtman.nl) joins Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social) to talk Rust (github.com/rustls/rustls) maintenance, open source funding, and sustaining projects without burning out. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/268

Michelle Barker (www.linkedin.com/in/michelled...) joins Richard (richlitt.bsky.social) as she unpacks how ReSA (www.researchsoft.org) powers open science, global collaboration, and community-driven research. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/267

Join Richard (@richlitt.bsky.social), Eriol Fox (@erioldoesdesign.bsky.social), Allen Gunn (buff.ly/4NeQAsi), Leslie Hawthorne (buff.ly/83QU7Lu), and Abby Mayes (abbycabs.github.io) as they explore the current state of open source sustainability and what lies ahead. Listen at 🎙️ buff.ly/6okqXss

Sean Goggins (www.seangoggins.net) shares his work with the CHAOSS Project (chaoss.community), exploring open-source sustainability, leadership, metrics, and his academic journey. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/265

Neil Chue Hong (www.linkedin.com/in/neilchueh...) discusses SSI's £4.8M Research Software Maintenance Fund (www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...), supporting research software maintenance, and its role in software sustainability. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/264

Alison Hill (https://bsky.app/profile/apreshill.com) delves into her shift from academia to industry, her role at Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/), and the impact of product management in open-source. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/263

It's happening again! If you have interest, passion or need around the diverse range of topics collectively described as “sustainability of free and #opensource software”, we invite you to join us for the SustainOSS Virtual Forum, on Thursday 13 March 2025. opencollective.com/sustainoss/e...

Brian Muenzenmeyer (https://brianmuenzenmeyer.com/) talks about his book, Approachable Open Source (https://approachableopensource.com/), emphasizing diverse contributions and inclusive paths in open source. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/262

Alexander Petros (https://alexanderpetros.com/) delves into htmx (https://htmx.org/), lightweight protocols, and open-source software's impact on the web's future. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/261

Robert Douglass (https://buff.ly/3YYDM53) delves into his history with Drupal (https://buff.ly/3hz83px), the new Drupal Certified Partner Program (https://buff.ly/3Z2F5zT), and helping the RFP process along. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3CDKDJE

Giulio Carvalho (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogecece/) dives into the importance of civic tech projects like Querido Diário (https://queridodiario.ok.org.br/en-US/sobre) in improving transparency by centralizing data despite challenges from big tech. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/259

Devin Stein (https://github.com/devstein) dives into the challenges in open source sustainability, AI & LLMs for support, Dosu’s (https://dosu.dev/) knowledge base aids teams, and ethics in AI use. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/258

Kailash Nadh (nadh.in/) talks about Zerodha's (zerodha.com/) FLOSS/Fund granting $1M per year to open source projects and the importance of the funding.json (buff.ly/4hoqzLa) format in funding FLOSS. Listen at 🎙️ buff.ly/40nbe7z

Thomas Karagianes (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaskaragianes/) & Jonathan Romano (https://luxaritas.com/) discuss Eterna's (https://eternagame.org/) open source RNA research, blending human intuition, AI, and community-driven puzzle solutions. Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/256

Caleb Connolly (https://buff.ly/4e0M4i6) & Pablo Correa Gómez (https://buff.ly/4hizkGt) dive into postmarketOS (https://buff.ly/2Q0g4C2), an OS for off-market phones, and how they're making it into a sustainable community. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/4hibtH1

Batool Almarzouq (https://buff.ly/3NCSoBS) talks about Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (https://osc-ksa.com/) and how localization and internationalization make more sustainable communities. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3BUKVvf

Juan Pablo Alperin (https://buff.ly/4eUc93t) and John Willinsky (https://buff.ly/3ZYtFzg) dive into PKP's (https://pkp.sfu.ca/) history, the development of OJS (https://buff.ly/4gYPuon), publishing, AI integration, and balancing growth with sustainability. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/4eTrYHA

Nolan Lawson (https://nolanlawson.com/) delves into burnout, open source challenges, reputation pressures, and his shift to sustainable practices like Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/). Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/252

Gina Häußge (https://foosel.net/) shares her journey to working full-time on OctoPrint (https://buff.ly/4eN118u) through crowdfunding, addressing burnout, user demands, and the importance of API stability for plugin developers. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3BLDlTy

Jules Barros Lima (https://buff.ly/47L426J) delves into Associação Python Brasil (https://buff.ly/3BuoBbw), diversity in open source, "atomic diversity" framework, pandemic effects on Python,, and developing compassionate and impactful codes of conduct. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3N3bUae

Jenn Turner (https://buff.ly/3BiClq3) of Fastly (https://buff.ly/34Y8csz) & Glitch (https://glitch.com/) shares her journey from journalism to open source, navigating a technical field as a non-technical contributor, and some work-life balance tips. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/4gIpe1y

Terry “Tofus” Wang (https://buff.ly/3MPk8Tu) talks about g0v (GovZero) (https://buff.ly/3MN2D6f) hackathons, the role of designers in open source, and how non-coders contribute meaningfully. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/4dd8JYm

Lorenzo Sciandra (https://kelset.dev/) & Mirko Swillus (https://buff.ly/4db49tm) of STF dive into the "Fellowship for Maintainers" program's (https://buff.ly/4e48ss3) goals to support solo maintainers and enhance open-source sustainability. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/4e48sIz

Chad Whitacre (https://buff.ly/47uqhOa) talks about sustaining open source, Sentry’s Open Source Pledge (https://buff.ly/3Y5oxIv), funding initiatives, and strategies to support open-source projects. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3BjGrxR

Divya Mohan (https://buff.ly/3ZgBaBq) from SUSE (https://www.suse.com/) dives into CHAOSS Asia's (https://buff.ly/47iup3U) goals, fostering unity, and the need for standardization in diverse open-source projects. Listen at 🎙️ https://buff.ly/3XwRtZg

Brian Douglas (https://b.dougie.dev/) explores open-source sustainability, his advocacy journey, and Open Sauced's (https://opensauced.pizza/) goals, sharing insights from GitHub (https://github.com/) and Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/). Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/245