Episode 163: Ana Jiménez Santamaría & Samson Goddy at State of Open Con 2023

Guest Ana Jiménez Santamaría | Samson Goddy Panelist Richard
Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where
we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Richard is
at the State of Open Con 2023 UK in London, and he’s excited to
have his first ever in-person podcasts. Today, he has two guests
joining him. His first guest is Ana Jiménez Santamaría, who’s
working as the TODO Group OSPO Program Manager at The Linux
Foundation. We’ll find out about Ana’s talk at this event,
everything she’s been doing for the past few months as the OSPO
Program Manager, what’s going on with the regional working groups,
what OSPOlogy is, and how the TODO Group works. His next guest is
Samson Goddy, a software engineer, open source advocate, Co-founder
of Open Source Community Africa (OSCA), and on the Open Source
Collective Board. Samson gives us the details about OSCA and the
OSCA Fest 2023 coming up in June, that he expects to have a lot of
people attending. He also shares a great project called Chakra UI,
created by a Nigerian maintainer, as well as a collection of open
source projects on GitHub created by Nigerians. We’ll hear about
his talk, his favorite sessions, and how he views software
sustainability. Enjoy these great discussions and hit the download
button now! [00:00:54] Ana went to FOSDEM for the third time, and
she tells us what her main takeaway was after being there, and the
talk she enjoyed the most called, Open Design. [00:03:00] Since Ana
is an OSPO Program Manager she does a lot in terms of output, so
we’ll find out what she’s been doing for the past few months.
[00:05:15] We hear about the regional working groups, for example
the Japanese regional working group, and Ana tells us about some
groups in Europe. [00:07:45] What is OSPOlogy? [00:09:03] Ana
explains how the TODO Groups work and how OSPOlogy fits within a
larger question of open source sustainability. [00:11:45] Richard
wonders how they judge inauthentic participation in OSPO’s, and do
they ever have any actions what they can say this isn’t what we
want. [00:15:39] We hear about Ana’s talk at State of Open Con UK,
how the UK gets involved with TODO and the OSPO, and she shares
that she sees a need of creating communities with British
participants in the OSPO space. [00:17:54] What is Ana looking
forward to in the next few months that she’s working on? Also, with
all the tech layoffs, she tells us if that has affected the
participation in the OSPO. [00:20:50] Find out where you can get
involved in the TODO Group and follow Ana on the web. [00:22:05]
Richard’s next guest joins him and that is Sampson Goddy. He gives
us more details about being the co-founder of OSCA, what it is, and
info about OSCA Fest 2023. [00:25:26] Richard doesn’t see a lot of
maintainers of major open source projects coming from Africa or
Nigeria, and he wonders if we can change that. Sampson shares
there’s been a few projects done by Nigerian and African core
maintainers, as well as a collection of open source projects
created by Nigerians on GitHub. [00:29:06] A tough question is
asked about there being a lot of racist and colonialist attitudes
towards Nigeria and hard to deal with. Is there anything that
corporations or communities of tech people can do to help OSCA and
what would the support look like? [00:31:06] Sampson talks about
other movements in countries that are not in Nigeria. [00:33:32]
How does Sampson view software sustainability? [00:35:10] We hear
what Sampson’s favorite sessions have been in the sustain mini
events with OSCA and what his talk is about. [00:36:27] Find out
where you can learn more about OSCA and the festival coming up, and
where you can follow him on the web. Links SustainOSS
(https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter
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SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard
Littauer Twitter
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Ana Jiménez Santamaría Twitter
(https://twitter.com/anajsana95?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Ana Jiménez Santamaría LinkedIn
(https://es.linkedin.com/in/ana-jim%C3%A9nez-santamar%C3%ADa/en)
OSPOlogy (https://github.com/todogroup/ospology) The Linux
Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/) TODO Group Community
(https://todogroup.org/community/) Samson Goddy GitHub
(https://github.com/readme/stories/samson-goddy) Samson Goddy
Twitter
(https://twitter.com/Samson_Goddy?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Samson Goddy Website (https://samsongoddy.com/) Samson Goddy
LinkedIn (https://ng.linkedin.com/in/samsongoddy) Open Source
Community Africa (OSCA) (https://oscafrica.org/) Open Source
Community Africa Festival (https://festival.oscafrica.org/) Open
Source Community Africa Instagram
(https://www.instagram.com/oscafrica/) Open Source Community Africa
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/opensourcecommunityafrica/) Open
Source Collective (https://www.oscollective.org/) Chakra UI
(https://chakra-ui.com/) Made in Africa Collection-GitHub
(https://github.com/collections/made-in-africa) 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: Ana Jiménez Santamaría and Samson Goddy.