Episode 21: How Playing Minecraft Opened a Door to the Open Source World with Justin W. Flory

Sponsored By:
Panelists Eric Berry | Pia Mancini | Justin Dorfman | Allen
“Gunner” Gunn Guest Justin W. Flory (https://justinwflory.com/)
Rochester Institute of Technology Show Notes In this episode we
talk with Justin Flory, quite possibly the future of Open Source
Sustainability. Justin fell into the Open Source world as a
15-year-old out of necessity while trying to build and maintain his
Minecraft server. Justin currently attends the Rochester Institute
of Technology, currently the only institute of higher learning
offering a Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture minor. He
is best known as an Open Source contributor in the U.S. 01:21:
Justin Flory discusses his contribution to the Linux open source
community and getting involved with his University’s open source
program. 02:11: The driving force at an early age was playing
Minecraft as a kid and wanting to have his own server to build a
community to play with friends. This led to learning networking,
system administration, and eventually drove him to some Minecraft
open source software. It was there he helped out and eventually
became a community manger. 07:32: Justin talks about the Spigot
Project and how they funded it through a web store, contests, and
donation drives. 09:18: While at RIT, he became more involved in
the open source world through such things as the FOSS Initiative,
Libre Corps, UNICEF, Open APS, Night Scout, and Sugarlabs, and the
One Laptop per Child ecosystem. 12:51: Also at RIT, and as part of
his minor, discusses his class on FOSS. 14:29: Breaks down the 2006
post on Linux.com by Bruce Byfield on why FOSS is not on activists’
agenda and how he was ahead of his time. 21:54: Justin talks about
one of the sessions he went to at the Mozilla Festival in 2019
about the Extinction Rebellion. 23:40: Gunner joins in and Eric
talks about the upcoming events in Brussels: Sustain, CHAOSS, and
FOSDEM. Justin Flory and Michael Nolan will be speaking at FOSDEM
and he gave us a preview of his “Freedom and AI” which will
showcase the Four Essentials of Freedom. This will be held on
Saturday, February 2, 2020. Spotlights • 34:24: Justin Dorfman
spotlight this week is Tailwind CDN. • 34:55 Pia’s is Queer JS. •
35:43: Gunner picks the harden Linux movement, Tails OS, and Qube •
36:19: Eric brings back one of his old favorites, Mert by Brian
Gonzalez • 36:52: Finally, Justin Flory picks Spigot, the open
source Minecraft server software. Links  Justin W Flory
(https://twitter.com/jflory7) Rochester Institute of Technology
(https://www.rit.edu/study/free-and-open-source-software-and-free-culture-minor)
unicef (https://www.unicef.org/innovation/Magicbox) Libre Corps
(https://fossrit.github.io/librecorps/) Justin's blog about Bruce
Byfield’s post
(https://blog.justinwflory.com/2019/12/why-foss-is-still-not-on-activist-agendas/)
Why FOSS Isn’t On Activist Agendas
(https://www.linux.com/news/why-foss-isnt-activist-agendas/) FOSDEM
2020 (https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ethical_ai/) Justin
Flory's Sustain Summit 2018 Blog
(https://blog.justinwflory.com/2018/11/sustain-oss-2018-quick-rewind/)
Extinction Rebellion (https://rebellion.earth/) Tailwind CDN
(https://tailwindcdn.com/) Queer JS (https://queerjs.com/) Tails OS
(https://tails.boum.org/) Qubes (https://www.qubes-os.org/) Mert
(https://github.com/eggplanetio/mert) Spigot Project
(https://www.spigotmc.org/) Special Guest: Justin W. Flory.