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Pre-show of FLOSS Weekly Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, Katherine Druckman and Technical Director Ant Pruitt take a trip down memory lane about going bald and some of the family's bald background.

Doc Searls and David Weinberger are authors of "The Cluetrain Manifesto," which aims to examine the impact of the Internet on both consumers and organizations, and have updated the manifesto with "New Clues."

Cryptography expert Dave Huseby tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how to build infinitely scalable layer two solutions that unbind the Internet from time and space without changing existing systems. All with authentic data.

Christine Hall gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps a tour of the glorious past, troubling present, and uncertain future of free software and open source, which makes both as well as a discussion on the GPL.

Avi Press, CEO of Scarf, gives good answers to hard questions from Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how to run analytics and gain insights on open source software use in privacy-respecting ways.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly Doc Searls chats with Jonathan Bennett and Avi Press about Google analytics, linuxy stuff, and also how he would see if Google's crawler was working well for his writing.

How open source communities form, fork, and govern themselves are just a few of the many topics UC-Davis professor Seth Frey talks about with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps in an insight-filled show.

Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation chats with Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls post-show on FLOSS Weekly regarding the myths of learning to write code or learning about open source products as a career path.

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Luboš Kocman and Douglas DeMaio about openSUSE Leap, where it's going, and lots of related Linux and open source issues coming up now and in the near future.

Stephano Cetola, Director of Technical Programs for RISC-V International, returns to bring Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett up to speed on the many new developments in and around RISC-V's radically open and promising CPU architecture.

Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly.

Hector Martin of Asahi Linux schools Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett with a massive sum of fresh, deep and interesting facts about Apple's new M1 hardware, and Asahi's promise and progress toward doing everything on it.

Pete Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a deep wikis (especially his Massive one), how AI helps us collaborate spatially in the natural versus the connected worlds. Great conversations covering many topics beyond wikis.

Buster Neece chats with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch during post-show of FLOSS Weekly about Open Collective. There's always discussion around open source software earning funds to remain sustainable. Neece shares some fascinating points. 

Melody Meckfessel of Observable briefly chats with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman after FLOSS Weekly about her time at Google. She also shares her passion about inclusivity for everyone to have access to great data visualization.

Post-show of FLOSS Weekly the panelist discuss the concerns of HTTPS standard with legacy websites. Jason Grifffey, Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb further explains the concerns as well as dive into some other fun chatter.

Post-show on this week's episode of FLOSS Weekly, the discussion is home offices. What's the future of the home office or the corporate office? Some interesting points shared by Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Don Marti.

Jeff Geerling, the great Raspberry Pi hacker and star geek on YouTube, talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about Ansible, Jellyfin, how subscription TV is the new cable, and fun hacks in our new media age.

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett chat post-show on FLOSS Weekly with the managers from openSUSE about some of the more interesting places they've seen openSUSE in the wild. Including its implementation in cars of today.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly 715, Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Alexander Belokrylov discuss cloud computing and infrastructure. Are we at a point where we'll see more cloud in the palm of our hands via 5G infrastructure?

Paula Hunter of Mojaloop talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about using open source, open data, open standards, open content, and other DPGs—Digital Public Goods—to make transactions cheaper and easier in the unbanked world.

Dan Lynch and Doc Searls chats with Sam Curren about DIDs and why they're important for today's online identity. Curren has worked extensively on the project ands shares insight with the FLOSS Weekly co-hosts.

Amit Taylor talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about the current state of finding jobs in tech, the future of tech job listings, and how the pandemic and current economic state have affected the job market overall.

Rand Hindi of Zama joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to discuss the importance of encryption and the benefits of homomorphic encryption. It's a great discussion with many branches of topics surrounding encryption and data privacy on FLOSS Weekly.

How modernization of health data management is changing the health system.Doc Searls: patient as platform and "point of integration" | e-Patients.netThe Patient as the Platform | Linux JournalI'm sick of hearing Washington talk about savings "over ten years" | e-Patients.netParticipatory Medicine…

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.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls discusses with Shawn Powers and guest Levi C Maaia about his former HAM participation and how he may get back into it. Plus, much more fun chatter from the panel and the IRC. 

What does Jon "maddog" Hall—a man with 15,000 FLOSS-related t-shirts have to say? Lots about everything free, open and otherwise, in a conversation that occasionally turns to an argument between maddog, Simon Phipps, and host Doc Searls.

Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Vitess, his learnings as VP of Engineering at GitHub, sharding, why Rewind is a lifesaver for users needing to undo recovers during schema migrations, and much more.

Post show of FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls talks about his show outro and how "smooth" it went. Sam Curren discusses the benefit and how fortunate one is to work on open source projects and getting paid to do so.

Peter Kaminski explains to Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly how Massive Wiki is on its way to being a prominent movement that combines wiki utility with familiar tools and processes for distributed use online by all users.

Doc Searls Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers speak post-show on FLOSS Weekly about the use of GNOME on Linux distros versus other options such as KDE. There's also other chatter about a really bright two-year old and his "concerns" regarding a dog.

Holmes Wilson explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how central servers limit personal freedom, and how you can improve the quality of private P2P team chat and collaboration like Slack and Discord with Quiet, his open source team's work in progress.

Melody Meckfessel of Observable schools Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about how early it is and how far we've come with open source and data visualization. A deep and exciting show, rich with insight and promise of a better-visualized future in analytics.

Amit Taylor of TrueUp.io joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for a deep dive booming market for open source talent. TrueUp has an amazing array of data and ready connections between demand and supply in the marketplace for dream tech jobs.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Jonathan Bennett chat with Greg Kroah-Hartman about some funny stories and meetings around Linux kernel development. Linus Torvalds is mentioned, of course, and the idea of code having "tasted" is discussed.

Robin Gareus joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss Ardour Digital Audio Workstation and how open source audio editing is changing across fields ranging from movie-making to podcasting. It's a great look at this open source program on FLOSS Weekly.

Now free and independent as ever after his time at Microsoft, Linux legend Miguel de Icaza goes deep into cryptocurrencies, Web3, the EU's new DMA and many other topics on this episode of FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch.

Post show of FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett chat with guest Lorenzo Miniero more about WebRTC and other things Minero is working on such as his music. Doc also explains his knack for properly pronouncing terms used in foreign countries.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett ask Greg Kroah-Hartman about submitting bugs for the Linux kernel. There was controversy around submitting bugs anonymously.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/706

Lorenzo Miniero of Meetecho and Janus WebRTC speaks with Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls on FLOSS Weekly about securing WebRTC streams with encryption and SecureRTP.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/674

Rand Hindi joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly to discuss encryption and Zama.ai. Here's an explanation on what Zama is.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/727

Peter Kaminski shares insight on what's good and bad about centralized platforms vs decentralized platforms. Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS WeeklyFor more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/719

Kyle Rankin of Purism joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about how his company's Linux laptop and Librem 5 phone converge with the company's new Lapdock, plus the past and future of hacker culture, how supply chains really work, and convergence in general.

AI-created, human-edited.A leadership shakeup at AI startup OpenAI recently sparked debate on the latest FLOSS Weekly over tensions between open source values and pursuing profits. Hosts Doc Searls and Dan Lynch dove into nonprofit OpenAI's firing and rehiring of CEO Sam Altman within a week. While…

Nick Vidal shares some interesting tidbits with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers regarding the internet and several other tech milestones that happened in the early 1990s.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/641

Dan Lorenc of Sigstore and Chainguard joins Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the software supply chain.The open source software supply chains are increasingly vulnerable attack surfaces. Nobody knows more, or is doing more, to secure those surfaces than Dan Lorenc.

We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.

Maxie Reynolds of Subsea Cloud tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how the marine underworld is the future of data centers as well as data communications. Putting data centers under the ocean? Yes, it's a real thing, and it's discussed on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Shawn Powers speak with guest Maxie Reynolds following up on some of the show discussions. Ant Pruitt asks if Reynolds would kindly show off her southern accent because she's Scottish and claims to make a great southern accent impression.