32: Open Source Sustainability

Eric and Brandon jump and their soap box this episode to address the critical issues surrounding open source development, ongoing lifecycle management, securing the supply chain, and monetizing developers time. Destination Linux Network Sudo Show Website Sponsor: Bitwarden Sponsor: Digital Ocean Sudo Show Swag Contact Us: DLN Discourse Email Us! Sudo Matrix Room Elementary AppCenter Tidelift: Finding #5: More than half of maintainers have quit or considered quitting, and here’s why. Linux.Com: Measuring the Health of Open Source Communities (Blog) MongoDB Switches Up Its Open Source License Twitter: Brandon's Thread Ars Technica: No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not Spyware Joplin Notes Open Collective Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:42 Welcome 01:30 Sponsor - Digital Ocean 02:34 Sponsor - Bitwarden 04:03 The Open Source Problem 10:47 MongoDB and Elastic Search 15:19 Just Fork It 21:18 Development Isn't Just a Hobby 31:47 How Do We Fix FOSS? 41:07 Wrap UpSponsored By:Digital Ocean: The Sudo Show is sponsored by our friends over at Digital Ocean. DigitalOcean recently announced their new Managed MongoDB service, which is a fully managed, database as a service. With Managed MongoDB, you can focus more on building scalable high performance apps, and less on maintaining the database. DigitalOcean built this service in partnership with MongoDB Inc. and together they have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the Mongo database as they become available. As a listener of the Sudo Show podcast and a member of the DLN Community you can get started for FREE! Actually, better than free because DigitalOcean is giving you a $100 Credit when you go to https://do.co/dln-mongo. Need more than just a database? You can use your $100 credit to try out all the amazing services Digital Ocean has to offer. Again, go to https://do.co/dln-mongo to get started with your $100 Free Credit on DigitalOcean’s new Managed MongoDB and thank you to Digital Ocean for sponsoring the Sudo Show and the entire Destination Linux Network!Bitwarden