FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

RCOS is a group of RPI students who work on open-source projects. The goal of RCOS is to empower students to develop open-source solutions to real-world problems. They have created 300+ open source projects over the years. Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Wes Turner, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source. They discuss teaching open source and the hardships that come along with that, especially with e-learning. They also discuss what the future could look like if we could have more open-source programs like RCOS in other universities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Wes Turner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: hover.com/twit barracuda.com/floss

The open-source software that allows you to organize your life with VR! Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Liam Broza, the CEO and Co-founder of LifeScope. The discuss the LifeScope platform, which is built to organizes your existing data and allows you to manage it better. It is a consultancy that helps you find and remove unwanted data. They also create virtual spaces for events, businesses, and brands that allow people to meet in the time of social distancing. They talk about the future of VR, and what is that going to look like for business and consumers and why it is essential to keep the future of VR open source. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Liam Broza Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

KidOYO teaches kids coding, computer science, engineering, and the concept of entrepreneurial learning, for K12 to University. Doc Searls talks with Shawn Powers and Devon Loffreto the owner of KidOYO, and also the creator of the term Sovereign Identity. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Devon Loffreto Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss WWT.COM/TWIT

Open source has enabled democratized communication in the tech world. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Tim Pozar, who has been building out network infrastructure since the 80s. They discuss the philosophy of communication and the history of open source, how it got its start with broadcasting. Now, in the last 20 years, open source has exploded, however, we are in the digital age and still have limited access to ISPS. They discuss how Starlink, could be a great solution to fix that problem. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Tim Pozar Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: securityscorecard.com/twit LastPass.com/twit

Use of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers. Explaining Self-sovereign identity and the use of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers, Kaliya Young, also known as "Identity Women," joins the show hosted by Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennet. They dive deep into what identity means and the future of identity. Kaliya is a vital part of the Internet Identity Workshop. This workshop brings talent together to design and build an identity system that empowers individuals. They also discuss the critical difference between open source and open standards and the implementations of what that means for identity. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Kaliya Young Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/securitynow hover.com/twit

Global certification for open-source. In this episode, we discuss open source certification as well as career support offered through LPI. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb interview Jon "Maddog" Hall, who is a committed educator and a community developer. He is the board chair at LPI as well as the Co-founder and Senior Adviser to Caninos Loucos, which is a project to get Single Board Computers (SBCs) designed and built-in Brazil. This allows students to receive needed supplies to go to university. He is also the President of Project Cauã, which teaches university students how to run their own IT business and work part-time as they go to school. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guest: Jon "maddog" Hall Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Embracing open source & open standards. IEEE SA Open is the gap between global standards development and open-source developer communities. Doc Searls talks with Simon Phipps and Silona Bonewald, the Executive Director of the IEEE SA Open about the meaning of "open." As well as how the IEEE SA Open is available to anyone. They discuss the different opportunities that the IEEE SA Open gives to those looking to create "open" project as well as how to get involved with IEEE SA OPEN. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Silona Bonewald Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

CCPA.Doc Searls talks with Jonathan Bennet and Don Marti who is an expert on the California Consumer Privacy Act. They discuss how the CCPA is vital to the open-source community.Thanks to a new privacy law, California residents now have protections over the sale of their private online data. Here's your chance to try it out yourself, by participating in a Consumer Reports study: https://volunteer.consumerreports.org/datarightsstudy Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Don Marti Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT LastPass.com/twit

All about Open Source Initiative.Doc Searls talks with Simon Phipps and the president of OSI, Joshua R. Simmons. They discuss the past, present, and future of OSI and how this global non-profit has advanced in the past twenty years as well as how they continue to raise awareness and adoption of open-source software. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Joshua R. Simmons Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/floss barracuda.com/floss

Security Focused Software & Hardware Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk to Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism. Purism is security focussed software & hardware company that believes in building products that respect and protect individuals' privacy, security, and freedom. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Kyle Rankin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: hover.com/twit twit.cachefly.com

Cloud-native workloads in production.Sysdig is an open-source system monitoring and troubleshooting tool for Linux, with cross-platform capabilities on Windows and Mac OS. You can manage security and compliance for Kubernetes and have an open platform with embed security and validate compliance. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guests: Loris Degioanni and Kris Nova Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Open-source autoML framework.Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk to Jorge Torres, Co-Founder and CEO of MindsDB. MindsDB is a free, open-source autoML framework to streamline the use of neural networks. It's designed to make it super easy for developers to deploy machine learning in their projects. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Jorge Torres Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: WWT.COM/TWIT1

Monitor everything in real-time.Netdata allows you to instantly diagnose slowdowns and anomalies in your infrastructure with thousands of metrics, interactive visualizations, and insightful health alarms. It was designed for IT professionals, SysAdmins, SREs, and DevOps who have the responsibility to run or troubleshoot infrastructure but do not have the time or the resources to monitor it properly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Costa Tsaousis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit expressvpn.com/floss

Distributed SQL Query Engine.Presto is an open-source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes. Presto allows querying data where it lives, including Hive, Cassandra, relational databases, or even proprietary data stores. A single Presto query can combine data from multiple sources, allowing for analytics across your entire organization. Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps Guests: Manfred Moser and Dain Sundstrom Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: twit.cachefly.com barracuda.com/floss

Create / Destroy / Manipulate Your API's.Contractor is an Extendable Resource Management API. The goal of Contractor is to provide an API to Automate the Provisioning, Deployment, Configuration, and Management of Resources. Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch Guest: Peter Howe Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.