Episode 166: Thomas Steenbergen & Josep Prat at FOSS Backstage 2023

Guests Thomas Steenbergen | Josep Prat Panelist Richard Littauer
Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Richard is at the FOSS
Backstage 2023 that’s held in Berlin every year. On this episode,
Richard has two guests joining him. His first guest is Thomas
Steenbergen, co-founder and organizer for the TODO Group Europe and
Head of the Open Source Program Office at EPAM Systems. Thomas
talks about his current workshop, OSS Review Toolkit, his
background as a software developer, and the three important aspects
of open-source software: consuming, compliance, and contributing
back. Richard’s next guest is Josep Prat, who’s the Open Source
Engineering Director at Aiven. Aiven provides software as a service
including Kafka and Cassandra with around 500 employees, and
despite its size, it has an open-source program office that focuses
on employing people to work full-time on open-source projects.
Josep talks about the importance of hiring people with the right
mentality, and they look for people who care deeply about open
source and communities and are not just in it for the fame and
glory of open source. Also, he talks about the importance of
diversity in open-source projects, as well at the Plankton program
at Aiven for people who want to do contributions in their free
time. Download this episode to hear much 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://23.foss-backstage.de/) Thomas Steenburgen
Twitter (https://twitter.com/tsteenbe) Thomas Steenburgen GitHub
(https://github.com/tsteenbe) EPAM (https://www.epam.com/) OSS
Review Toolkit (https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort) I am not
a supplier- by Thomas Depierre
(https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier) Josep Prat
Twitter (https://twitter.com/jlprat) Josep Prat GitHub
(https://github.com/jlprat) Aiven (https://aiven.io/) 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: Josep Prat and
Thomas Steenbergen.