FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

FLOSS Weekly 613: EteSync and Etebase - Tom Hacohen, EteSync and Etebase

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:00:00 PST

Etebase is a set of client libraries and a server for building end-to-end encrypted applications. Tom Hacohen, who previously appeared on FLOSS Weekly episode 524 to talk about securely syncing contacts, calendars, tasks and notes with his product EteSync, is back to talk about his new baby: Etebase. This is a great discussion as more and more consumers and users are interested in encryption and securing their private information across all platforms they use today.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Tom Hacohen

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FLOSS Weekly 612: Open Sheet Music Display - Open Source Music Tech

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:00:00 PST

Open-source music tech.

Dr. Matthias Uiberacker talks about Open Sheet Music Display, open-source music tech, and cool new ways to make and practice music in a FLOSSy way. He's a veteran musician, EE Ph.D., and CTO of PhonicScore.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Dr. Matthias Uiberacker

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FLOSS Weekly 611: The FLOSS Ecosystem - Allison Randal, FLOSS Landscape

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:00:00 PST

Allison Randal, FLOSS landscape.

Nobody sees or understands the big FLOSS story better than Allison Randal, a veteran of .ORGs for Perl, Python, Parrot, Openstack, Software Freedom, Open Usage, and FLOSS; .COMs that include HP, Canonical, SUSE and O'Reilly; plus countless events for all those entities, among many more. Allison joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for an exciting and knowledge-packed hour exploring what she calls the "three legs of the FLOSS stool": developers, companies and foundations. Putting into perspective everything from Red Hat dropping CentOS to the migration of one foundation from OpenStack to Open Infrastructure. For a view across the FLOSS landscape, you can't beat the hour you'll enjoy here.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Allison Randal

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FLOSS Weekly 610: Internet of People and Things - Picos and the Self-Sovereign Internet

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:00:00 PST

Picos and the self-sovereign internet.

Phil Windley co-invented Picos (persistent compute objects) and discusses how they could make everything on Earth, including people, "smart" even without onboard electronics. He joins hosts Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about a new self-sovereign layer for the Internet. This is built on SSI (self-sovereign internet) - a whole new way to make personal identity work both online and off, potentially without logins and passwords. Windley explains Distributed Identifiers and also shares how Hyperledger Aries relates.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Phil Windley

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FLOSS Weekly 609: Open Source Security - Trusting Open Source in Government and Business

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:00:00 PST

Trusting open source in government and business.

David A. Wheeler, Ph.D., a frequent guest of the show, is now the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation. Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk to David about that and many related efforts he's involved with at the Linux Foundation, including the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), LF Energy, LF Public Health, and the CII Best Practices badge project. That's in addition to his work teaching development of secure open-source software, a study he co-authored with Harvard on OSS contributors, and both enduring and rapidly changing approaches to software development education in a time twisted by a global pandemic.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: David Wheeler

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FLOSS Weekly 608: What Makes a Standard? - Open-Source Standards with John Wunderlich

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:00:00 PST

Take a deep dive into the connections between standards, open-source, and much more with John Wunderlich. John contributes to many standards efforts as a self-described privacist with a degree in history and who in past lives was a journeyman machinist and trained air traffic controller.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: John Wunderlich

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FLOSS Weekly 607: Microsoft and Open Source - Diversity, Cultural Changes, and the Cloud

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:00:00 PST

Diversity, cultural changes, and the cloud.

"These ladies are AWESOME." That's what the chatroom said while we were recording this landmark show with Stormy Peters and Sarah Novotny. Both now work at Microsoft and help that giant company—once notoriously opposed to Open Source— become one of its most prominent advocates and contributors. The topics range from clouds to cultural changes, browsers vs. operating systems, the value of giving rather than just getting, kids and code, the growth of female participation, and diversity within Open Source and business—plus much more.

Host: Doc Searls

Guests: Stormy Peters and Sarah Novotny

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FLOSS Weekly 606: The Future of Stuff - Digital Ownership and Rights

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:00:00 PST

In our conversation about The Future of Stuff with its author Vinay Gupta, we discuss the founding role of Free Software in the digital world. We'll also talk about the need to list and protect human rights that were barely imaginable in the old physical world—and the radical ways we might make that happen. Vinay is the founder of Mattereum, a London-based fintech company using legally-enforceable smart contracts to enable the sale, lease, and transfer of physical property and other legal rights. He is a technologist and policy analyst interested in how specific technologies can close or create new avenues for decision-makers. This interest has taken him through cryptography, energy policy, defense, security, resilience, and disaster management arenas. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Hexayurt Project, a public domain disaster relief shelter designed to be built from commonly-available materials, and Ethereum, a distributed network designed to handle smart contracts.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Vinay Gupta

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FLOSS Weekly 605: Trust in Health Care - HIE OF One, Patient Privacy, Open Data

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:00:00 PST

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today's healthcare environment, medical records and personal wellness information are often spread across a complicated maze of systems, leaving patients and providers without an easy way to access and share important health data. To help with this, HIE is building, Trustee. Trustee is a private, patient-directed health information record being built on the HIE of One open source platform. The Trustee, universal health record, is designed to give the patient complete control over who has access to their medical files. They also talk about the importance of blockchain and how it can be the solution for standards in identity management.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Adrian Gropper

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FLOSS Weekly 604: Learning from the Apache Way - ASF, Apache License, Decentralization

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:00:00 PST

ASF, Apache license, decentralization.

Hadrian Zbarcea is a champion for open source for the last 15 years. He is a member and VP at the Apache Software Foundation. He is the founder of Apifocal and has involvement in designing massive scale messaging and integration platforms for many organizations. Hadrian is passionate about leveraging open source technologies to build services that streamline access to essential and relevant data. Hosts Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett discuss with Hadrian the open-source culture and "The Apache Way." They also discuss the value of asynchronous email and decentralization and why we should strive to have more asynchronous and decentralized open-source options.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Hadrian Zbarcea

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