Episode 25: Creating a Support Network for Maintainers with Don Goodman-Wilson

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Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Don
Goodman-Wilson (https://twitter.com/DEGoodmanWilson) Maintainerati
Foundation Show Notes In this episode we talk with Don
Goodman-Wilson, from Amsterdam. He’s a philosopher-engineer
experienced in developer advocacy, Founder of Katsudon.tech, and
Board Member at Maintainerati Foundation. 1:18 Don explains
Maintainerati’s mission and brings up a point about how to create a
network of support among maintainers. 04:10 Don talks about having
no insight in the Japanese open source community and the challenges
must face not being able to communicate with others. 7:03 Justin
asks Don what does DevRel means to him and he also explains what
“empowerment” means to him as well. 10:26 Don explains what issues
he tackled at Slack and GitHub. 16:17 Don wrote a post on open
source about how it’s a bit broken. He explains how the current
situation is radically skewed in favor of the business interests.
18:50 Richard asks Don to talk about what ethical implications
might mean for open source and how do we fix it, work on it, and
make it better for the developmental maintainers. 22:21 The panel
and Don discuss how a maintainer, Seth Vargo, found out that his
code was being used by a subcontractor for ICE and how ICE is
currently having major humanitarian issues on the border. 28:21
Justin speaks about open source and section five of no
discrimination against persons or groups. 32:10 Don chimed in about
a talk he did at FOSDEM that challenged the assumption that open is
the right thing. 35:27 Richard explains his views on academic
linguistics and saving endangered languages and how to do it
properly. Spotlights 38:33 Justin’s spotlight is tickgit
(https://www.tickgit.com/) 39:15 Richard’s spotlight is Front Porch
Forum (https://frontporchforum.com) 40:16 Don’s spotlight is Grape
(https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape) Links Don Goodman-Wilson
(https://don.goodman-wilson.com/) Open Source is Broken FOSDEM 2020
(https://don.goodman-wilson.com/talks/fosdem_2020/) katsudon.tech
(https://katsudon.tech/) Maintainerati (https://maintainerati.org/)
DEVREL (https://devrel.net/) Slack (https://slack.com/) GitHub
(https://github.com/) Seth Vargo
(https://mashable.com/article/chef-ice-seth-vargo/) Karl Popper
(https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134)
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