Episode 170: Smera Goel & Dotan Horovits at FOSS Backstage 2023

Guests Smera Goel | Dotan Horovits Panelist Richard Littauer Show
Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! On this episode, Richard is at
the FOSS Backstage 2023 that is held in Berlin every year. Today,
Richard has two guests joining him. He meets up with Smera Goel who
was featured on Episode 3 of our Sustain Open Source Design
Podcast. Richard catches up with her and what has been going on the
past year and a half. Smera is a Product Designer and an Outreachy
Mentor for Fedora. She is also the Mentor Project Representative
for Fedora, in charge of looking after the participation of Fedora
in different mentorship programs such as Outreachy and Google
Summer of Code. Smera works for a startup in Berlin that has some
open-source offerings, and she got her job from an open-source
design job board. Richard and Smera discuss mentoring mentors and
mentees in the context of software sustainability. Richard’s next
guest is Dotan Horovits, who’s the Principal Developer Advocate at
Logz.io. and he tells us about his own podcast called
"OpenObservability Talks." He explains the dominance of
closed-source vendors in the observability space, which has led to
a siloed and vendor-locked situation. They also discuss how
observability is important for cloud-based web applications and
large production systems and how open-source projects should have
an open door to the CNCF and how collaborations between different
foundations can be beneficial. Download this episode to hear more!
Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter
(https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard
Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?lang=en) FOSS
Backstage 2023 (https://foss-backstage.de/) Smera Goel Website
(https://smera.notion.site/) Smera Goel LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/smera-goel/) Fedora
(https://getfedora.org/) Sustain Open Source Design Podcast-Episode
3-Smera Goel on Designing in the Fedora Project, Outreachy, and
India (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/3) Dotan Horovits LinkedIn
(https://il.linkedin.com/in/horovits) Dotan Horovits Twitter
(https://twitter.com/horovits) OpenObservability Talks Podcast
(https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability) Logz.io
(https://logz.io/hp-sandbox/) OpenObservability Talks on the
podcast apps
(https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/openobservability)
OpenObservability Talks on YouTube (videocast)
(https://www.youtube.com/@openobservabilitytalks) Is “vendor owned
open source” an oxymoron?
(https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6)
Open Source for Better Observability
(https://horovits.medium.com/open-source-for-better-observability-8c65b5630561)
Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/)
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
(https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests:
Dotan Horovits and Smera Goel.