I'm happy to announce that Portia, Eric, and I have officially launched a new podcast called "Let's Talk Docs" after months of work.

We just got accepted to Apple, Google, Amazon, and Spotify, so please consider subscribing, rating, and sharing if you like what you hear.

I want to give a huge thank you to all of our guests and a special shout-out to Tom Johnson for his blog post.

We look forward to your feedback!

I'll be keynoting this event ⤵️ talking about, you know what.

💬 Discussions

Building a process to decide if a project should be open sourced

Building a process to decide if a project should be open sourced

Discussion #65 · todogroup/ospology · GitHub

📰 Articles

With Code Insights, Sourcegraph gives developers a better understanding of their codebase

With Code Insights, Sourcegraph gives developers a better understanding of their codebase

Yes I know, shilling my employer, but hear me out. Once this tool is available for our cloud offering I will be giving free access to researchers so they can get a better understanding of how our digital supply chain is doing.

Open Source Zone grinds away at patent trolls | ZDNet

Open Source Zone grinds away at patent trolls | ZDNet

Unified Patents, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and Open Invention Network are beating back open-source patent trolls.

Harvard census identifies most commonly used open source packages

Harvard census identifies most commonly used open source packages

Researchers hope that by raising awareness of the most widely used open source packages, they can help prevent the next Log4j or Heartbleed exploit from happening.

🎙 Podcasts

Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice

Mike Saunders on The Document Foundation and LibreOffice

Did you know 200mm people use LibreOffice? 🤯

Carrie Winfrey of Okthanks on Clean Insights

Carrie Winfrey of Okthanks on Clean Insights

Carrie talks about design activities, blind spots in open source design, Clean Insights, and what it takes to make a better designer.

CHAOSS DEI Reflection Project

CHAOSS DEI Reflection Project

"Today, we are talking about Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Reflection, which is a project that was internal to the CHAOSS project. Our DEI team that has been working on this is joining us to discuss the motivation for this journey, what they’ve learned, implemented, the metrics strategy, and the future of where they can take this work."

Let's Talk Docs Episode 1: Megan Sullivan

Let's Talk Docs Episode 1: Megan Sullivan

"Megan Sullivan is a Developer Educator at Apollo. Megan shares her background and story about studying CS, going into teaching CS courses, and how putting the two together helped her become a more confident professional developer and create a path for others with an educational background."

📽 Videos

Still relevant ~2 years later

Disclaimer: All links that I (Justin) post in any newsletter issue are what I find interesting and or thought-provoking. I don’t agree with everyone but do value their perspectives.

The Non-Code Contributor - Issue #28