Episode 158: Ruth Cheesley & Mike Nolan at State of Open Con 2023

Guest Ruth Cheesley | Mike Nolan 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 podcast. Today, he has two guests joining him that
have previously been on this podcast. His first guest is Ruth
Cheesley, who’s the Project Lead at Mautic. Ruth tells us about
Mautic and what her job entails. Also, since she attended FOSDEM
’23 right before this, we’ll find out a little more about that
event, as well as what she’s looking forward to at State of Open
Con 2023. Richard’s next guest is Mike Nolan, who’s a Software
Engineer and open source Community Strategy Consultant helping run
Open@RIT as the Associate Director, and he’s the Director and
Founding Member of the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists.
Mike tells us why he’s at State of Open Con representing RIT and
what he’ll be speaking about at his session, and we’ll find out
what separates an OSPO at a university from an OSPO in the
industry. Download this episode to hear more! [00:01:19] Ruth tells
us about her role at Mautic and what her recurring tasks are
throughout the week. [00:05:24] We learn how Ruth sets up the
community engagement in the Mautic Slack and how she uses Common
Room. [00:08:05] Find out Ruth’s journey of getting to where she is
today. [00:09:56] In case you missed FOSDEM ‘23, Ruth fills us in
on how fantastic it was this year because she was there. [00:11:56]
What is Ruth looking forward to at State of Open? [00:14:56] Find
out where you can follow Ruth online. [00:16:12] Mike Nolan joins
Richard and we find out why he’s at State of Open, and why
Rochester Institute of Technology needs to be represented at this
conference. [00:18:52] Mike explains what separates an OSPO at a
university from an OSPO in the industry. [00:24:10] What does Mike
do to help Steve Jacobs make everything happens at RIT? [00:27:27]
Mike details how they utilize the students at RIT, not just as an
effort of instruction, but as an effort of moving forward with his
own OSPO roles. [00:30:18] Mike submitted a proposal for a session
at State of Open called, “Entering the OSPO Winter,” and he tells
us what he means by winter and what the session is going to be
about. [00:32:30] Find out where you can follow Mike online, and he
tells us about a great place in England to visit for wild camping.
Spotlight [00:13:12] Richard’s spotlight is the eBird reviewers for
London. [00:13:53] Ruth’s spotlight is the HappyCow App-The #1
Vegan App. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS
Twitter
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SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/)
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Littauer Twitter
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Ruth Cheesley Twitter (https://twitter.com/RCheesley) Ruth Cheesley
Mastodon (https://mastodon.online/@rcheesley) Ruth Cheesley GitHub
(https://github.com/RCheesley) Sustain Podcast-Episode 138: Ruth
Cheesley, the Mautic Project Lead at Acquia, on Building and
Growing Open Source Communities
(https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/cheesley) Mautic
(https://www.mautic.org/) Common Room (https://www.commonroom.io/)
Monica (https://github.com/monicahq/monica) eBird-London
(https://ebird.org/region/GB-ENG-LND) HappyCow
(https://www.happycow.net/mobile) Mike Nolan Twitter
(https://twitter.com/__nolski__) Mike Nolan Website
(https://nolski.rocks/) Mike Nolan GitHub
(https://github.com/nolski) mpnopen@rit.edu-Mike Nolan email
(mailto:mpnopen@rit.edu) Sustain Podcast-Episode 69: Humanitarian
Open Source with Michael Nolan
(https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/michael-nolan) Dartmoor
National Park
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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:
Michael Nolan and Ruth Cheesley.