Podcast appearances and mentions of ben balter

Guest Vlad-Stefan Harbuz Panelist Richard Littauer | Eriol Fox | Abby Cabunoc Mayes Show Notes “Today we're launching the Software Stewardship Lab.” - Vlad-Stefan In this episode, Richard, Abby, and Eriol welcome Vlad-Stefan Harbuz - University of Edinburgh PhD student, Executive Director of the Software Stewardship Lab, and Director of the Open Source Pledge - to talk about the Open Source Pledge and the newly launched Software Stewardship Lab. They discuss how companies can better support the open source software they depend on, why it can be difficult to know where funding should go, and how the lab hopes to address issues like software security, hidden dependencies, and maintainer burnout. Press download now to hear more! [00:02:03] Richard introduces Vlad and his background, and Vlad shares his path into open source research. [00:03:30] Vlad explains how the Open Source Pledge works. [00:06:17] The conversation turns to how the funding goes directly to maintainers. [00:07:57] Vlad discusses why open source funding becomes a popularity contest. [00:10:05] We hear about challenges for large companies joining the pledge. [00:13:16] Vlad tells us about the Software Stewardship Lab. [00:15:09] The conversation highlights the importance of design, user experience, copywriting, localization, data collection, and other essential work that is frequently overlooked or poorly funded. [00:17:59] Vlad discusses potential partnerships with the Software Sustainability Institute and researchers studying open source, research software, and community health. [00:20:58] We hear how the lab plans to fund its work and the hidden risk of binary dependencies. [00:25:49] The lab's work extends beyond dependency mapping to research on maintainer burnout, the effects of AI, mental health, and governance structures that encourage sustainable participation. [00:28:48] Vlad urges employees and decision-makers to recognize that supporting open source is both a public good and a practical business investment that can prevent critical infrastructure from breaking. Quotes [00:09:12] “These metrics are at best proxies currently.” [00:17:47] “We need more educational resources to show people that this stuff is really important and it's not just lines of code.” [00:28:19] “It's about creating a larger space that focused on more general questions in open source sustainability.” [00:28:53] “I would like to tell people that work for large companies to tell their employers that their corporate commercial work relies more on open source software that people develop for free in their free time, the work is tremendously important for their business, and there are other organizations that are doing work to help create resources to make this infrastructure more sustainable.” [00:29:31] “Try to convince your boss that this stuff is worth funding, and not just for the social good! It's also in the company's interest, so you have two very good reasons to do it.” Spotlight [00:31:15] Eriol's spotlight is Paloma Oliveira's book, Diversifying Open Source. [00:31:48] Abby's spotlight is Ben Balter's book, Open and Async. [00:32:25] Richard's spotlight is the Generative AI Risk Register. [00:33:01] Vlad's spotlight is Chad Whitacre and Open Path Episode 4. Links SustainOSS podcast@sustainoss.org richard@sustainoss.org SustainOSS Discourse SustainOSS Mastodon SustainOSS Bluesky SustainOSS LinkedIn Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) SustainOSS YouTube Richard Littauer Socials Eriol Fox Website Abby Cabunoc Mayes Website Vlad-Stefan Harbuz LinkedIn Vlad-Stefan Harbuz Website Software Stewardship Lab Software Stewardship Lab Contribute (Open Collective) Open Source Pledge UK Research and Innovation: Apply for funding npmx Open Technology Research Open Source in war-torn Ukraine and around the world—join me on an epic journey ❧ Open Path #4 PEP 725 – Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml PEP 770 – Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials PEP 804 –An external dependency registry and name mapping mechanism Sustain Podcast: Episode 247- Chad Whitacre on the Open Source Pledge Sustain Podcast: 3 episodes featuring guest Chad Whitacre Sustain Podcast: 3 episodes featuring guest Andrew Nesbitt Sustain Podcast: 2 episodes featuring guest Kailash Nadh Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest Neil Chue Hong Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest Stuart Geiger Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest Sean Goggins Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest James Howison Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest Kaitlin Thaney Sustain Podcast: 1 episode featuring guest Miranda Heath Report on Burnout in Open Source Software (Miranda Heath Website) Diversifying Open Source: An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects by Paloma Oliveira About empires, pirates, and the small files that undo power (LinkedIn post by Paloma Oliveira) Open and Async by Ben Balter Generative AI Risk Register Open Path Episode 4 (YouTube) Sponsor CURIOSS Credits Produced by Richard Littauer Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound

In this episode with Ben Balter, we talk about what GitHub is, why GitHub isn't for lawyers, and some rules for communication and knowledge management that we can all take away from GitHub's model. During the show, we mentioned Greg Siskind's website. Check it out here. Be sure to read the inspiration for this podcast on rules for communication at GitHub here.

In this episode with Ben Balter, we talk about what GitHub is, why GitHub isn’t for lawyers, and some rules for communication and knowledge management that we can all take away from GitHub’s model. During the show, we mentioned Greg Siskind's website. Check it out here. Be sure to read the inspiration for this podcast on rules for communication at GitHub here.

Guest: Ben Balter @benbalter Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-155-ben-balter-moving-the-world-forward-at-github

Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub — the world’s largest software development network — where he leads the efforts to encourage adoption of open source philosophies, making all levels of government better, one repository at a time.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about encrypting everything, why encryption doesn’t matter, and why we are all Charlie Brown now. Lucy, in the role of a cloud server provider. Or telco. Or regulator. Every videogame memory from Gunnar’s childhood, implemented in JavaScript Taipan! UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors End-to-End Gmail Encryption code is up. New from the EFF: Secure Messaging Scorecard Update for 2020 (HT Lydia Yates of Comparitech!): The best encrypted messaging apps (and their limitations) in 2020 PrivacyGrade: Grading The Privacy Of Smartphone Apps Verizon and AT&T “supercookie” MITM attack. See if you’re being tracked at the obviously named amibeingtracked.com. D&G bait of the week: Dropbox’s Drew Houston Responds To Snowden’s Privacy Criticism: It’s A Trade-Off Aerophobia meets claustrophobia: Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers Panoramic Views. Ready To Use Within 10 Years. Yay? Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own ‘Dark Web’ Site Check your Hilton HHonors Points: Hackers plunder Hilton ‘HHonors’ rewards points, go on shopping spree ORNL and Dave’s replay: GovLoop: How Open Source Can Help Overcome Government’s Biggest Challenges OpenStack User Survey November 2014 are out. We maintain the vast majority of technologies used in computer, network, and storage, and 40% of the user base. Sweet! Heroism as anti-pattern: “VPAT is Public Sector specific, and therefore all previous cases have been resolved successfully by referring to Gunnar.” Ben Balter’s guide to communicating on GitHub works even without GitHub. EFF guide to avoiding surveillance includes not just articles, but “playlists” based on user stories. Cutting Room Floor Good Grief! Cancer Boy! is a strange little film reveals the utter futility of Charlie Brown’s very existence – in German! Related: Nein Quarterly Windows93 Movie trailer of the week: Daylight Saving Scientific paper of the week: The hipster effect:When anticonformists all look the same YouTube Flight Training of the week: Practice landing a Boeing with a charming Lithuanian accent.

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: monkey selfies, elephant-based coffee, and yak shaving with OpenStack. Dave is all all Skyped up on RHEL 7 Provides 32 bit qtwebkit which isn’t in EPEL HTTPS mandates: “With great power comes a tiny amount of responsibility.” D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say Open source intelligence: Gun Safety, Self Defense, and Road Marches – Finding an ISIS Training Camp Hard Core History Shamless plug for my friend Graeme’s wonderful ISIS piece Stealing encryption keys through the power of touch When not working for America’s Got Talent finalists, Lauren spends her free time working at NASA. #2!!! –> Top 5 articles of the week: Linux, Hadoop, and NASA! Lauren’s Raspberry Pi virtual reality wall at NASA Dave takes RH254R for RHEL 7 Now with less yak shaving: Red Hat Introduces Open Virtual Appliance for Seamless OpenStack Evaluations Almost related: OpenShift Enterprise Offline Developer Virtual Machine Image CloudForms 3.1 released Lonely jobs, part 2: No. 1 Most Expensive Coffee Comes From Elephant’s No. 2 Cutting Room Floor Ben Balter’s Glossary of Government Acronyms IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook Pop songs as Shakespearean sonnets InternetSteamGauge: a pressure gauge to display Internet usage 26 Famous (And Free) Fonts You’ll Want To Start Using Immediately 15 foot tall parking sign Meanwhile in Japan: Apologies as a Service We Give Thanks Brian Stevens for his leadership and mentorship