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FLOSS Weekly: FLOSS Weekly Continues at Hackaday - Hackaday is the new home of FLOSS Weekly

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 PST

FLOSS Weekly continues with Jonathan Bennett at its new home at Hackaday.

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FLOSS Weekly 761: We Won! - The Victories of Free Software and Open Source

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:30:00 PST

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and the final FLOSS Weekly as well.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, and Simon Phipps

Guest: Leo Laporte

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FLOSS Weekly 760: Making Money In Open Source - Adam Jacob, Chef & System Initiative

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:30:00 PST

Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Adam Jacob

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FLOSS Weekly 759: ActivityPub Crawl - Evan Prodromou on ActivityPub & OpenEarth

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:30:00 PST

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly social networks on the Internet.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Evan Prodromou

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FLOSS Weekly 758: Raiders of the Lost Source - Rocky and Oracle Unbreakable Linux, OpenAI Shakeup

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:30:00 PST

Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

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FLOSS Weekly 757: Noodling Around with OpenZiti - Philip Griffiths, OpenZiti and Secure Networking

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:00:00 PST

Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure networking.

An overview of OpenZiti and how it implements zero trust principles by putting private networks inside applications.
How OpenZiti functions similarly to a VPN.
OpenZiti's security and how it authorizes connections.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Philip Griffiths

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FLOSS Weekly 756: We Won, Now What? - Luis Villa, Tidelift

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulation and more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Luis Villa

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FLOSS Weekly 755: Nextcloud - Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud Growth and Updates

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:37:32 PDT

Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of capabilities, all independent of giant gatekeepers.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Frank Karlitschek

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FLOSS Weekly 754: Is He Still On? - Jon "maddog" Hall, Caninos Loucos, Open Source vs Free Software

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between GPL licenses v2 and v3 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Jon "maddog" Hall

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FLOSS Weekly 753: Small Is Beautiful - Aral Balkan, Small Technology Foundation

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:00:00 PDT

Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open world we've been losing and how to get it back.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Aral Balkan

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FLOSS Weekly 752: Stalkers Beware - Cooper Quintin on Personal Privacy and TOR University Challenge

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:00:00 PDT

Cooper Quintin of the EFF treats Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman to plenty of wisdom about the extremes of constant personal privacy exposure online, and how some of the worst threats can come from people you know.

The stalkerware industry that allows people to spy on victims easily.
How can we truly decentralize social media?
The expanding data broker industry.
Effective mitigation like encryption tools and pushing for privacy laws.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Cooper Quintin

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FLOSS Weekly 751: The Phipps Certification - EFF, AlmaLinux, Vehicle Software and Privacy

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:00:00 PDT

Listen closely for The Phipps Certification, and you'll also get news about 3D printing, AlmaLinux, a big EFF win, spyware in new cars and other hot topics on a table surrounded by Simon Phipps, Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Doc Searls.

Carl Malamud's fight to make the law open to citizens through his non-profit Public Resource.
How 3D printing is transforming open hardware through the sharing of designs
Mozilla's report on modern vehicles collecting and sharing personal data.
Using Pi-hole to block intrusive ad tracking and surveillance on home networks.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Simon Phipps, Jonathan Bennett, and Shawn Powers

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FLOSS Weekly 750: AI: Just Make It Normal - IQXR, AI and Open Source

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO of IQXR, about open source in AI, immersive technologies, and much more - and what needs to happen before it all gets normal.

What are the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed reality?
The challenges holding back widespread virtual / augmented reality, such as the lack of standards.
Privacy concerns around augmented & virtual reality glasses / headsets that record users.
AI's role in spatial computing.
Hoffman's mission to drive the adoption of open standards and interoperability.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Michael "Hoff" Hoffman

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FLOSS Weekly 749: That's In Chapter Three - Kyle Rankin, How To Write a Tech Book

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Writing a tech book is easy if you start with the proper guidance. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett get that guidance and much more from Kyle Rankin, author of How to Write a Tech Book.

The benefits of using LaTeX for formatting and layout when self-publishing.
How to pitch a book idea to traditional tech publishers like O'Reilly.
Advice on when you're ready to write your first tech book based on your skills.
How to make the transition from writing short-form articles to full book projects.
Differences between self-publishing and working with traditional publishers.
The editing process and importance of tech editing to perfect a textbook manuscript.
How the rise of the internet and digital documents impacts tech book publishing.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Kyle Rankin

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FLOSS Weekly 748: Show Me The ProofMode - Nathan Freitas, ProofMode

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:45:31 PDT

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Nathan Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project about ProofMode. A way to turn photos, videos, and other digital artifacts into secure signed digital evidence. Plus, the many other things the Project is up to.

Proof Mode for Data Verification
Future of Open Source and AI
Balancing Privacy and Functionality in Journalism
Guardian Project Funding and Future Plans
Discussion on Surveillance, Trust, and Optimism

Host: Doc Searls

Guests: Simon Phipps and Nathan Freitas

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FLOSS Weekly 747: New, Hot, Big, and Doomed - Business Software License, OpenELA Initiative

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, and Jonathan Bennett talk about what happens when open source companies get too big for the licenses that helped them get there, and how their communities are dealing with that.

Red Hat recently changed its source code distribution rules, prompting other vendors like Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association in response. What are the implications of these changes, and do Red Hat's actions violate the GPL?
Canonical's tight control over the LXD container management project, pulling it back in-house from the open source community which led to a community fork being created called Incus.
Companies like MongoDB and Hashicorp are moving away from open source licenses towards "source available" licenses like the Business Source License (BSL) that restrict commercial use.
There are growing concerns around using AI-generated code from tools like GitHub Copilot, and whether copyright and licensing restrictions carry over.
Apple reverses its stance on right-to-repair, with Apple throwing its support behind a California right-to-repair bill.
iFixit and Public Knowledge have been hit with a DMCA violation for creating a device that interacts with a McDonald's ice cream machine.

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FLOSS Weekly 746: Don't Hesitate, Enculturate! - Claude Warren Jr, Open Source Culture

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Claude Warren, Jr. about open source culture going back to coffee shops in the 1600s, how open source manners matter, and much more on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

The concept of open source projects as "insurance" against risk and companies that fund them for risk reduction.
InnerSource as an open source practice to develop and establish an open source-like culture within organizations.
Business source licenses changing mid-project and the fallout following such a chance.
Alternative models like Tidelift for funding open source.
The challenges of determining a single best model vs. many potential solutions.
HashiCorp's shift to a business source license and forking.
The impact of cultural differences on software teams and misunderstandings that can follow.
Setting expectations for asking "improper" questions to learn.
Social media outrage culture vs. traditional "voting with your feet."
How to sustain projects as they evolve from early stages projects.
Why succession planning is needed to continue the progress when project leaders leave.
The ethics of Protestware and embedding political messages.
Drawing lines around appropriate levels of protest or advocacy in code.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Claude Warren, Jr.

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FLOSS Weekly 745: The Buffer Bloke - Dave Taht, Music Collab, Private AI

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:30:00 PDT

On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourses on music and low-latency conferencing and online jams.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Dave Taht

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FLOSS Weekly 744: A Chill Pirate Lawyer - Damien Riehl, Open Source and Legal Rights

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:00:00 PDT

What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft of projects he talks about with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Damien Riehl

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FLOSS Weekly 743: Data Is Surprisingly Exciting - Apache SeaTunnel, William Kwok

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:08:23 PDT

William Kwok speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about Apache SeaTunnel, an exciting and extremely useful open-source way to synchronize multiple databases.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: William Kwok

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FLOSS Weekly 742: Endless Sky, Endless Fun - Open Source Game Development

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:53:55 PDT

Endless Sky is an open source game set in space with a great array of ships, settings, worlds, conditions, alien factions, and missions — plus a community of thousands. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds of Endless Sky about how and where the game, its community, and open source gaming itself are going.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guests: Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds

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FLOSS Weekly 741: This Is the F-Droid You're Looking For - Hans-Christoph Steiner, F-Droid

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:00:32 PDT

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an account and find only free and open source apps.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Hans-Christoph Steiner

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FLOSS Weekly 740: Baking the Printer - Jonathan Bennett: A Bad Face For Radio, IBM and Red Hat

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:28:14 PDT

Doc Searls and Ant Pruitt talk with Jonathan Bennett about life, love, open source, and what's up with Red Hat. Also, how to bake a printer?

Host: Doc Searls

Co-Host: Ant Pruitt

Guest: Jonathan Bennett

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FLOSS Weekly 739: Whose AI Is It Anyway? - AI Security, Decentralized Identifiers

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka talk with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly about big AI questions nobody else is asking—and getting deep and surprising answers, you won't want to miss.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guests: Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka

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FLOSS Weekly 738: Crossplane: Your Cockpit in the Cloud - Jared Watts, Nic Cope, Crossplane and Kubernetes

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:00:00 PDT

Jared Watts and Nic Cope, two founding engineers with Upbound and developers on Crossplane, join Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss control planes for Kubernetes and clouds.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guests: Jared Watts and Nic Cope

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FLOSS Weekly 737: Live, LUG, and Rock On - Dan Lynch, Liverpool Linux User Group

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:00:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Liverpool musician and FLOSS co-host Dan Lynch about music, events, LUGs and histories past and future.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Dan Lynch

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FLOSS Weekly 736: Don't Fear The AI - David Sifry, AI and Open Source

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:30:00 PDT

David Sifry gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a deep, detailed, enthusiastic, and original take on what's up with AI from an open source angle. It's an interesting discussion on FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: David Sifry

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FLOSS Weekly 735: FLOSS Without Borders - Ahmed Sobeh, Open Source in Developing Countries

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:00:00 PDT

Engineering Manager at Aiven, Ahmed Sobeh joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly. What new stuff is happening with open source development? Look to the developing world. That's what Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb learn from Ahmed Sobeh in a show packed with insights.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Ahmed Sobeh

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FLOSS Weekly 734: Organic Maps - Roman Tsisyk, Organic Maps

Wed, 31 May 2023 13:30:01 PDT

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Roman Tsisyk, founder and top maintainer of Organic Maps, an extremely active and exciting open source project for people who like or need to travel off line and in privacy.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Roman Tsisyk

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FLOSS Weekly 733: Open Source Science - Tim Bonnemann, Open Source Science

Wed, 24 May 2023 10:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Tim Bonneman about how to help open-source science follow the road to success paved by open-source software development and build on lots of interesting and exciting work already going on.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Tim Bonnemann

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FLOSS Weekly 732: Update Your Kernels! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel, Cyber Resilience Act

Wed, 17 May 2023 13:00:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the veteran top-level Linux kernel maintainer, about the human side of how kernel development works, how AI is still just pattern matching, and how life is about updating everything you can.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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FLOSS Weekly 731: Confidential Computing - Dan Middleton, Confidential Computing Consortium

Wed, 10 May 2023 10:30:00 PDT

Dan Middleton, of Intel and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), dives deep on the topic of confidential computing (CoCo) and many related concerns, such as Trusted Execution Environments with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Dan Middleton

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FLOSS Weekly 730: Going Off the Grid with Meshtastic - Decentralized Open Source Mesh Network, Meshtastic

Wed, 03 May 2023 13:15:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen of Meshtastic about adventures of many kinds—all using open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network that runs on inexpensive, low-power devices.

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Guests: Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen

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FLOSS Weekly 729: Commitment Issues - Stormy Peters, GitHub Accelerator

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:30:00 PDT

Stormy Peters, VP of Communities at GitHub speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. Peters is one of the most passionate, committed, informed, and important leaders in the open-source world today. The panel covers AI, commitment, dependencies, funding, learning models, and much more.

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FLOSS Weekly 728: Open Season On Open Source - Mike Milinkovich and the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 06:00:00 PDT

"What's going on with forming the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe has the potential to do enormous harm to the open source movement and to the future prosperity of the entire human race," says Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation, this week's guest on FLOSS Weekly. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an important topic to discuss in open source. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with Milinkovich about this important matter.

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Guest: Mike Milinkovich

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FLOSS Weekly 727: Homomorphic Encryption: the Next Big Thing - Rand Hindi, Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 06:30:00 PDT

Rand Hindi of Zama joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to discuss the importance of encryption and the benefits of homomorphic encryption. It's a great discussion with many branches of topics surrounding encryption and data privacy on FLOSS Weekly.

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Guest: Dr. Rand Hindi

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FLOSS Weekly 726: Mojaloop and Digital Public Goods - Paula Hunter, Mojaloop, Unbanked World

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:00:00 PDT

Paula Hunter of Mojaloop talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about using open source, open data, open standards, open content, and other DPGs—Digital Public Goods—to make transactions cheaper and easier in the unbanked world.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Paula Hunter

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FLOSS Weekly 725: VanillaOS on a Stick - Pietro di Caprio, VanillaOS

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:30:00 PDT

Pietro di Caprio joins Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers to discuss VanillaOS, a new Linux distro with a hot new feature: it's immutable.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers

Guest: Pietro di Caprio

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FLOSS Weekly 724: The Wide World of Open Radio - Levi C. Maaia, Ham Radio

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:30:00 PDT

Doc Searls and Shawn Powers take a deep dive into the open source and open data slices of ham radio with Levi C. Maaia, an accomplished pilot, filmmaker, and much more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Levi C. Maaia

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FLOSS Weekly 723: Freedom to Fork - Open Source Communities & Democracy With Seth Frey

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:51:53 PDT

How open source communities form, fork, and govern themselves are just a few of the many topics UC-Davis professor Seth Frey talks about with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps in an insight-filled show.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Seth Frey

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FLOSS Weekly 722: DIY Broadcasting With Open Source - Open Source Broadcasting, Tim Pozar and Brian David

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:30:00 PST

DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian David telling Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb about a large assortment of open-source tools and approaches that are ready to go for creators and broadcasters.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guests: Tim Požar and Brian David

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FLOSS Weekly 721: Hacking, Convergence and HyperPurism - Kyle Rankin, Purism, Mobile Phone & Linux Computing Convergence

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 13:00:00 PST

Kyle Rankin of Purism joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about how his company's Linux laptop and Librem 5 phone converge with the company's new Lapdock, plus the past and future of hacker culture, how supply chains really work, and convergence in general.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Kyle Rankin

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FLOSS Weekly 720: Fostering an Open Source Culture - Arun Gupta on Generative AI, OpenJDK, CNCF

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:16:50 PST

Arun Gupta, VP and General Manager of Open Ecosystems at Intel Corporation, joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Gupta has been an open source strategist, advocate and practitioner for nearly two decades, and is currently an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, where he works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow the cloud native ecosystem. A great discussion around open source, AI and another personal passion Gupta shares as part of his daily routine.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Arun Gupta

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FLOSS Weekly 719: Let the Wiki Win! - Peter Kaminski, Decentralized vs Centralized, Massive Wiki

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:30:00 PST

Pete Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a deep wikis (especially his Massive one), how AI helps us collaborate spatially in the natural versus the connected worlds. Great conversations covering many topics beyond wikis.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Peter Kaminski

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FLOSS Weekly 718: Future of openSUSE Leap - Luboš Kocman, Douglas DeMaio, openSUSE Leap

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:30:00 PST

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Luboš Kocman and Douglas DeMaio about openSUSE Leap, where it's going, and lots of related Linux and open source issues coming up now and in the near future.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guests: Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio

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FLOSS Weekly 717: SCaLE Is Still Huge - Ilan Rabinovitch, SCaLE and Open Source Conferences

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:30:00 PST

Ilan Rabinovitch explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how SCaLE has grown to become the premier Linux and open-source conference—and to stay extremely affordable as well. Also how Linux, open source, conferences, communities, companies, and much else have changed over the years.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Ilan Rabinovitch

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FLOSS Weekly 716: Desperately Seeking Software Freedom - Christine Hall, FOSS Force, Software Freedom

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:30:00 PST

Christine Hall gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps a tour of the glorious past, troubling present, and uncertain future of free software and open source, which makes both as well as a discussion on the GPL.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Christine Hall

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FLOSS Weekly 715: Lower Cloud Costs for Java - Bellsoft, Alpaquita Linux, Liberica JDK

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:43:55 PST

Alex Belokrylov of Bellsoft tells Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how Java has evolved into an ideal language for cloud infrastructure, especially through the Liberica JDK and Bellsoft's new Alpaquita Linux distro: the only Linux optimized for Java. Reduced costs, faster deployment, better security, and a brightening future are just a few of the topics discussed on FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Alexander Belokrylov

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FLOSS Weekly 714: Sugar Labs and Music Blocks - Music Composition in Open Source, Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:30:00 PST

Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender of Sugar Labs join Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly. Searls and Lynch learn how kids can compose music and produce code with open source Music Blocks. You can learn too, in just an hour of fun listening. Or, even better, by watching this week's video.

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Guests: Devin Ulibarri and Walter Bender

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FLOSS Weekly 713: "Let's Put Thoughts on the Blockchain" - LastPass Databreach, Linux Desktop 2023, Blockchain

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:00:00 PST

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett kick off the new year with a round table discussion regarding the world of open source. The hosts are joined by a special guest for this discussion, Leo Laporte. It's a great discussion regarding open source security, centralized versus decentralized products on the web, and much more.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, Katherine Druckman, and Leo Laporte

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