My Open Source Experience Podcast

No matter how much you talk about something that you do or discovered, there will always be someone who hasn't heard your story yet. Conferences help with both information sharing, as well as to conect with like-minded...

There are bad practices that no one should do when they get involved in opens source communities. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Greg Kroah-Hartman shares three examples from Linux history...

Copyright is complex, and geographies get factored into that a little bit. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Rick Sanders talks about how copyright works on the global scale, including the Berne...

Doing reviews is a task that is often percieved as a maintainer responsibility, or something that only the more established people in the community can do. This is a misconception, which deprives newcomers from the...

Working in a community where there are people who volunteer their free time gives people experience that can later on be beneficial in corporate environments as well. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience...

You need to make sure that you treat improvements in your project the right way. Some improvements are features as they bring new functionality. However, when the new functionality makes existing functionality available...

Open source engagement is a journey, and it doesn't start with contributing large amounts of code, even if you're a large company. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Ashan Senevirathne talks about...

Both in personal and in professional life, it can happen that people discredit you and undermine you behind your back. There are multiple ways to handle this situation without letting the other person to make a damage...

<p>The open source ecosystem has many layers, components and actors and all these need to work together in harmony to keep the ecosystem thriving. The Season 3 finale episode reflects on some of these peices and...

The open source ecosystem has many layers, components and actors and all these need to work together in harmony to keep the ecosystem thriving. The Season 3 finale episode reflects on some of these peices and explores...

<p>Accessibility sometimes comes with a stigma, since it becomes a discussion topic when someone has a disability that prevents them to do something that they would like to, like accessing an admin interface because...

<p>We often have well-baked ideas about how we would like things to tunr out, which gets combined with beliefs that are being shaped by the environment we're in. Despite of human nature, we need to follow our intuition...

<p>You've probably seen the meme with the tny project maintained by one person that holds up half the pyramid of all software products and services we use and connect to the world wide web. Curl is a project that is not...

<p>How much people crave being part of communities that they can realte to is often underrated, which is probably one of the reasons why people and companies don't invest time and resources into building a community...

<p>For many people it's very challenging to jump the bar from being a silent user of open source software to reaching out to the community, even just to ask a question. And some, or maybe rather many, of these people...