My Open Source Experience Podcast

Ildiko Vancsa
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The global open source ecosystem has millions of projects and observing and participating individuals, who are trying to find their ways to collaborate on activities and finding solutions to fulfill a shared mission. An ecosystem that large inevitably has challenges to remain a balanced, sustainable and welcoming environment. The My Open Source Experience Podcast collects and shares stories that describe people's experiences from their point of view. All experiences matter, the good, the bad, lessons that you've learned and challenges you still have. Your host, Ildiko Vancsa, is talking to open source, veterans, newbies, their managers, and just really, anybody who is either already involved in the open source ecosystem, or would like to. This podcast is all about the individuals, their voices and their experiences and what they've been through ever since they started to think about or getting involved in open source. The podcast is under the CC BY 4.0 license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 17h ago ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 39 - 3 Memorable Things from the Linux Kernel Ecosystem

    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 where people followed some bad patterns, which then somtimes resulted in raising the bar for everyone else. 1. Merge and Disappear Greg shares an example where someone contributed a big change to the core parts of the kernel, and then became unreachable. It took the Linux community quite some time to unwind the changes and clean up the code. All open source communities are based on trust, when someone betrays that they make it harder for other to build trust as well. The community is more flexible with changes that are well isolated, like a filesystem or a driver, but you still can't betray peopl's trust with any of your actions during the contrubution process. 2. Binary drivers It's a NO, you also don't want that, but also, you just can't. Some companies used to apply a trick, but they've been coming around as well. 3. Never experiment on a community, especially without a consent Greg shares the interesting story when a university professor and some students went ahead and wrote a paper about submitting and landing patches in the Linux kernel that introduced vulnerabilities. It turned out that they weren't truthful in their paper, and also forgot to notify everyone about the experiment. While the university was banned for a while, this turned out to be a story with a happy ending with students now contributing to the kernel as part of their studies. Further advantage of open source SW development methods is that the change history is available online, the community can always go back and remove code if a controller becomes untrustworthy at any point in time after getting their changes merged. #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 39 - 3 Memorable Things from the Linux Kernel Ecosystem

  2. Aug 18 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 38 - Law Is More Collaborative than You Would Think

    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 Convention and timelines. Leanr more about: - The Berne Convention - The government-driven nature of copyright - Copyright is government-driven but governments don't have much to do with copyright - The statue in copyright and in trademark, and the difference between the two - The concept of case law - Similarities between how departments in a law firm and large tech companies work together #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 38 - Law Is More Collaborative than You Would Think

  3. Aug 11 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 37 - How to Trick People into Doing Reviews

    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 opportunity to learn, and makes it harder to grow the maintainer team. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Daniel Stenberg talks about his approach to  - What maintainers need to do to support newcomers and hope for them to stick around - What percentage of Curl contirbutors are one-time contributors - Why doing reviews is a higher barrier - Communication practices that incentivize people to get involved, including doing reviews - When a change is submitted to change an area of the project, have you tried asking the people who worked on it before for their opinion on the patch? - As opposed to telling people to do reviews, try to ask for their opinion on incoming changes - Do tell people to go work out, ask them to come play a game with you #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 37 - How to Trick People into Doing Reviews

  4. Aug 4 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 36 - Go Slow So You Can Go Fast

    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 podcast Stormy Peters talks about her experience at the Mozilla Corporation, where she worked with a large community of many volunteers. Lear more about: - Why speed isn't always the most important - Investing time in your community and enabling people to join and participate always pays off later when the community starts to grow and become more sustainable - What is the maximum amount of time a volunteer would spend on trying to get involved in your project? - Offering mentorship to people is a strong incentive for people to contribute to projects #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 36 - Go Slow So You Can Go Fast

  5. Jul 28 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Short 35 - A Cool Feature to You, a Life-changing Functionality for Someone Else

    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 for people with disabilities, then it's not a feature that got implemented, it's a critical bug that got fixed. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Mike Gifford talks about the mindset shift in the Drupal community to start treating accessibility gaps as bugs and in cases as critical bugs. Learn more about: - GitHub's Readme newsletter - Marking something as a bug doesn't give it a priority automatically - You need like-minded people and leadership buy-in to move things forward in a focus area - Dark mode, a sad story - A fun feature, like adding motion on screens can make someone sick and should be easy to turn off - The potential in new tech to improve accessibility #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Short 35 - A Cool Feature to You, a Life-changing Functionality for Someone Else

  6. Jul 21 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 34 - How to Address Telco-specific Needs in Open Source

    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 Swisscom's approach to explore and leverage projects from the CNCF ecosystem to build and operate their networks. Learn more about: - OSS projects that are easy to adopt in the telecom ecosystem - OSS projects that are addressing needs that are specific to the telecom segment, such as Nephio - How the telecom industry matured and started to flourish in how they are engaging with open source projects like openStack and Kubernetes - How standards bodies fit in between telecom operators, vendors and the open source ecosystem - The need for standards bodies to evolve faster #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 34 - How to Address Telco-specific Needs in Open Source

  7. Jul 14 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 33 - What to Do When Someone Discredits You at Work

    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 to you. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Shuah Khan shares an experience from her corporate career when someone was discrediting her behind her back. Lear more about: - How to handle when someone talks behind your back - While talking about people behind their backs is never the way to go, there might still be constructive feedback in what they are saying - How to distance yourself from what is happening and avoid it to get to you - You don't have to be reactive to handle the situation - When leaving the company is the right thing to do #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 33 - What to Do When Someone Discredits You at Work

  8. Jul 7 ·  Bonus

    MOSE Shorts 32 - The Secrets to the Linux Kernel's Versatility

    Industry segments, like automotive, often rely on specialized hardware and software stacks. As that is very expensive to keep up, most segments have a shift towards COTS HW and that is an opportunity to look into open source as well. In this segment of the My Open Source Experience podcast Philipp Ahmann talks about his experience with this generation change, that also involved using Linux. This shift opened up more opportunities than what you would expect, and allowed Philipp to work at any location without confidentiality or IP breaches. Learn more about: - Open source gives flexibility to both individuals and companies - Experiencing different cultures through communities - Software, especially open source, often gets used in ways that the original creators did not think of #opensource #community #collaboration #experience #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    MOSE Shorts 32 - The Secrets to the Linux Kernel's Versatility
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The global open source ecosystem has millions of projects and observing and participating individuals, who are trying to find their ways to collaborate on activities and finding solutions to fulfill a shared mission. An ecosystem that large inevitably has challenges to remain a balanced, sustainable and welcoming environment. The My Open Source Experience Podcast collects and shares stories that describe people's experiences from their point of view. All experiences matter, the good, the bad, lessons that you've learned and challenges you still have. Your host, Ildiko Vancsa, is talking to open source, veterans, newbies, their managers, and just really, anybody who is either already involved in the open source ecosystem, or would like to. This podcast is all about the individuals, their voices and their experiences and what they've been through ever since they started to think about or getting involved in open source. The podcast is under the CC BY 4.0 license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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