On this episode we welcome Mike McQuaid, a long standing maintainer (10+ years) and project lead of Homebrew. We talk about Mike’s journey of becoming a maintainer and how he manages to sustain a healthy relationship with his project and it’s c

Ep05 - Open Source in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow with Dr Bernd Porr

Dec 7th, 2020 48m 28s

We're joined by Dr Bernd Porr from the Engineering school of Glasgow University to discuss how and why he has introduced open source to his Biomedical Engineering students. We talk about the importance of teaching open source, especially those

Ep04 - KDE & the future of apps, Open Development applied to non tech communities & OpenUK with Jonathan Riddell

Aug 11th, 2020 41m 54s

In this episode we talk to a well know figure in Scottish open source and influencer Jonathan Riddell, the creator of Kubuntu and KDE Neon (among other amazing open source contributions). We talk about his vision for KDE Neon and the KDE commun

Ep03 - Exploitation of FOSS developers, Education and PR to help projects with Greg Sutcliffe

Jul 7th, 2020 37m 23s

In this episode we talk to long time open source veteran Greg Sutcliffe, a community data scientist and part of the community team on the Ansible project. We explore the exploitations of open source developers and working for exposure is someth

Ep02 - Ensuring longevity after unfortunate circumstances in OSS Projects with Gary Ewan Park

Jun 22nd, 2020 36m 18s

It's a not a topic that us open source maintainers and contributors want to think about too often. What if I get hit by a bus tomorrow? What happens to my code and all the users that utilise it? In this episode we invite Gary Ewan Park, a senio

Ep01 - Hackerspaces in Northern Scotland with Tom Jones

May 27th, 2020 29m 48s

Super excited to welcome everyone to Scotland Open Source first episode! We have the amazing pleasure of speaking to Tom Jones, an extremely successful tech and hackerspace organiser and FreeBSD contributor. We chat about our experiences with o

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