Gremlins in the water

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KBall and Boneskull dive deep with Paloma Oliveira on the cultural and social consequences of open source software, explore her background in arts and government-supported open source, and discuss practical approaches to change the culture of open source towards more sustainability.

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Featuring:

• Paloma Oliveira – GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

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Chapter

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:43)

https://sentry.io/demo/sandbox/

3. It's party time, y'all! (00:01:23)

https://changelog.social/@jsparty

4. Welcoming Paloma (00:02:13)

5. Paloma's in-progress book (00:03:46)

6. Paloma's open source background (00:05:38)

7. Chris' open source background (00:09:43)

8. Hostility in OSS culture (00:12:13)

9. Sponsor: Vercel (00:13:57)

https://vercel.com

10. Overview of OSS cultural problems (00:15:40)

11. Individual boundaries & volunteer labor (00:18:42)

12. Imbalance is a key word here (00:21:18)

13. Diversity problems & decision makers (00:27:13)

14. Throwing gremlins in the water (00:35:03)

15. Okay, back to saving open source (00:36:52)

16. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:38:56)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

17. YOU can make open source more inclusive! (00:41:31)

18. Incentivicing managers to fund OSS (00:46:29)

19. Talent retention via open source (00:47:59)

20. Investing in open source (00:49:24)

21. The beauty of collaboration (00:53:18)

22. Final thoughts! KBall (00:54:50)

23. Final thoughts! Chris (00:55:55)

24. Final thoughts! Paloma (00:56:47)

25. Wrapping up! (00:58:32)

26. Outro (review us on Apple!) (00:58:52)

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