FOSDEM is coming up, and it's been three years since SustainOSS has had an IRL event, so we decided to throw a meetup sponsored by Sourcegraph, GitHub, and Red Hat. I can't thank Abby Cabunoc Mayes and Leslie Hawthorn enough for helping get this together in less than a week. We hope to see you there!
In other IRL event news, Richard and the Sustain crew will have a two day event at the State of Open Con 2023. Take a listen ⤵️
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This was the podcast episode that kicked it off:
“I think we’ll see governments wanting that and it’s not an OSPO, it’s a hybrid. It’s somewhere between a foundation and an OSPO.”
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Ashwin is one of the most impactful non-code contributors I have had the pleasure of meeting. He works as a researcher at Plaintext Group, a tech policy initiative under Schmidt Futures, focusing on open source software security and sustainability.
“There is no day off for OSS maintainers.”
JZ and Bash from Charm are starting up a new series on YouTube about our favorite topic...check em out.
"There's plenty of room for non-coding contributors to join the party!"
Julia Ferraioli of Open Source Stories interviewed Alex Cabal of Standard Ebooks, an open source project that creates commercial-quality ebooks for free distribution.
...you have to have a good eye for proofreading, you have to be able to read the book and catch typos and catch things like, “Oh, maybe there should have been a comment here, but I don’t see one.” And then you would have to go check the page scans to see if there is one.
That's it for this issue. If you enjoyed it, forward it to a friend.
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