The Upstream podcast is a companion podcast to Upstream, the annual Tidelift event celebrating open source, the developers who use it and the maintainers who make it. Host Luis Villa, Tidelift co-founder and General Counsel, is joined by individuals from all corners of the open source universe, and together they’ll offer unique perspectives, concerns, and solutions ...
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Open and verified data saves lives! In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Heather Leson, digital innovation lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Monica Granados, assistant director of open climate at Creative Commons. Throughout the discussion, they’ll touch on many important topics including: open data standards and licenses, data playbooks, and bridging the gap between humanitarian offices and the tech industry with open data. For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com. https://preparecenter.org/toolkit/data-playbook-toolkit-v1/ https://spherestandards.org/handbook/ https://www.google.com/url?q=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1685037851844525&usg=AOvVaw0E0CJ5zGfkSJo8-FNLe2kq https://www.anticipation-hub.org/ https://data.humdata.org/ https://prereview.org/ https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/ https://giga.global/
Will empathy help make our software development teams better? In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Kellan Elliot-McCrea of Adobe and Adam Jacon, CEO of System Initiative. Should software development teams be a team sport or an orchestra rather than a factory? How should we handle generational changes within software development teams?. Why do large software companies give their employees free breakfast? Get answers to these questions and enjoy some fun anecdotes about mastering craps when stuck in Las Vegas. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel) https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/16/software-and-its-discontents-part-1.html https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discontents-part-2-complexity.html https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/29/software-and-its-discontents-part-3-the-magic.html For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.
Let’s celebrate the joy of open source! In this week’s episode of the Upstream podcast, Luis Villa sits with Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia and Sumana Harihareswara, stand-up comedian and founder of Changeset Consulting, to discuss the goofy side of Wikipedia, puppet shows, Wikimania marriages, the emotions in programming, and the joy of finding community in these spaces. Links: https://buttondown.email/Changeset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Wikimania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ullmanhttps://www.popsci.com/technology/shared-data-a-short-story-from-an-alternate-future/ For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.
Where is open source now and where is it going? The oversaturation of cryptocurrency scams and the community shift in the web3 movement. The data required for machine learning and the balance of rights of use. What do we make of the various states of open source and what comes next? Welcome to the first episode of Upstream podcast! In this week’s episode, Luis Villa chats with Molly White of Web3 is Going Just Great and Stefano Maffuli of the Open Source Initiative about the future of open source and beyond. Links: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ https://deepdive.opensource.org/ https://opensource.org/ https://ethicalsource.dev/ For more stories about open source, subscribe to the Upstream podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS, or follow along on our website, www.tidelift.com.