Finale, thank you! (Request For Commits #20)

In this finale episode of Request For Commits – we regroup to discuss how we got here, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place now and in the future. This might be the end of this podcast, but the conversation will continue on The Changelog. You should subscribe if you’re not already.

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Featuring:

• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
• The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
• The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
• Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
• How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
• Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
• Open source infrastructure Q&A
• What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
• Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
• Maintainerati

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