ANTHOLOGY — The Future of Open Source at OSCON 2017 (Interview)

This is an anthology episode from OSCON 2017 featuring awesome conversations with Kelsey Hightower (OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform), Safia Abdalla (Open Source Developer and Creator of Zarf), and Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal (GitHub Open Source Programs).

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Featuring:

• Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, X
• Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower is an OSCON Co-Chair and Developer Advocate (Google Cloud Platform) — We talked about being a co-chair, why he does live demos, and his motivations towards open source.

When you say you’re successful, I guarantee when you look around it’s because someone is celebrating your victories.

• Check out DevOps Days Austin 2017 on YouTube
• The tweets mentioned from Kelsey that were seen as “controversial by some in the community” started with this tweet, then this tweet, and finally this tweet.
• “I don’t write code for free. I write code for freedom.”
• “Best birthday gift ever!” thanks to Brian Ketelsen

Safia Abdalla

Safia Abdalla is an open source developer and creator of Zarf — We talked about being a command-line junkie and her talk on the intersection of business and open source.

• Zarf - an online platform that allows writers to sell subscription content to their readers.
• captainsafia/legit
• captainsafia/goopshttps
• captainsafia/commentator
• captainsafia/checklist
• Brief
• captainsafia/giddy
• captainsafia/fony
• Open Source at Facebook with James Pearce (Facebook)

Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal

Mike McQuaid and Nadia Eghbal work at GitHub in Open Source Programs — We talked about GitHub’s Open Source Alley at OSCON and how they are working to better support open source maintainers and their communities.

• dear-github/dear-github

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!