Episode 38: Working Group Updates with Justin & Javi

Sponsored By:
Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guests Justin
Flory RIT (https://www.rit.edu/) Javier “Javi” Canovas Open
University of Catalonia (https://www.uoc.edu/portal/es/index.html)
Show Notes This is a special episode where we are talking about the
working groups that came out of the Sustain Summit in Brussels back
in January. Today, we have Justin Flory, a student at Rochester
Institute of Technology and Javier “Javi” Canovas, from Barcelona,
an Assistant Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, who are
very involved in the Sustain Working Groups. Javi is the bottom
liner for the Governance Readiness Group and Justin is the bottom
liner for the Principles of Authentic Participation (PAP). They
will both talk about their groups and their involvement in them.
They also talk about the Transparency Working Group. Also, Richard
talks about the Nvie Git Flow Model. If you want to learn more
about the different working groups, then this episode is for you!
[00:01:31] Richard gives an overview of what the Sustain Working
Group is all about and how you can join in on the conversation on
the discourse forum. [00:05:22] Justin Flory tells us what PAP is
and what does it mean to be authentically participating in
something. He also explains navigating core values that don’t match
up. [00:11:07] Richard wonders if Justin Flory ever tried to figure
out what does it mean to be authentic as a large corporation versus
what does it mean to be authentic as a lone script kitty and if
those ever clashed? Justin explains. [00:15:35] Javi explains what
Governance Readiness is and how that has materialized for him over
the past couple of months. [00:18:17] Javi talks about some of the
Governance Models that he’s looked at or put together. He is asked
by Justin D. if any of his students know what he’s working on.
Also, he talks about how many people are involved in his group.
Justin F. tells us how many people are in the PAP group. [00:21:54]
Justin F. builds on the Javi’s discussion about where the working
group sits and explains that this working group is also another
place where they’re trying to build that common language.
[00:24:15] Richard talks about the “Nvie Git Flow Model” and a blog
post that came out 10 years ago. [00:25:51] Justin F. talks about
the Transparency Working Group and its focus. He also gives a shout
out to Gunner’s interview on Episode 19 of Sustain’s Podcast, which
helped him frame the way he’s going into some of this
sustainability work. [00:31:35] Javi explains what his working
group is looking at for the next meeting and what topics he’s
looking to get feedback on for the working group right now.
[00:34:09] Justin F. asks Javi what the working group is planning
to do next and what would he want the working groups
accomplishments to be? He explains. [00:35:43] Justin F. tells us
where he wants to go with PAP and what’s next. He talks about
“Boundary spanning.” [00:37:50] Richard says for any listeners out
there who want to start listening actively or actively contributing
to go to sustainoss.org/working-groups. Spotlight [00:38:49]
Justin’s spotlight is a project he works for CodeFund which is Open
Source. They passed 400 million ethical ads served. Big Milestone
for them! Congratulations! [00:39:20] Javi’s spotlight is a project
called, “Community Rule.” [00:39:59] Justin Flory’s spotlight is
first a shout-out for the place where we have defined the
Governance Model, which is open for issues and pull requests. Also,
a cool initiative in the Fedora Project Community, an Open Source
Linux Project. [00:40:54] Richard’s spotlight is NVIE Git Flow
Model. He loves it! Quotes [00:22:36] “But now we’re in this
changing world where Open Source is starting to become really
popular or it’s being looked at a different way than it was twenty
years ago.” [00:29:52] “We all eat, and it’s really important to
eat. And if you don’t eat, you get angry. And if you get angry you
close issues a lot faster without saying thank you, right?” Links
Justin Flory Twitter
(https://twitter.com/jflory7?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Justin Flory Blog (https://blog.jwf.io/about-me/) Javier Canovas
Twitter (https://twitter.com/jlcanovas?lang=en) NVIE Git Flow Model
(https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) Boundary
spanning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_spanning) Sustain
Working Groups (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/)
CommunityRule (https://communityrule.info/) CodeFund “400 Million
Ad Served” (https://j.mp/codefund-400m) Fedora Project
(https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/) Sustain
Podcast-Episode 19 (https://sustain.codefund.fm/19) Credits
Produced by Justin Dorfman at CodeFund Edited by Paul M. Bahr at
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by
DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Ad
Sales by Eric Berry at CodeFund Special Guests: Javier “Javi”
Canovas and Justin W. Flory.