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Tidelift co-founders Jeremy Katz and Luis Villa join Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on this episode of FLOSS Weekly to discuss how maintainers should be paid. You might think the answer would be different for every codebase, but not if there's a platform for doing it.

Jason Griffey speaks with Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls about his open source LibraryBox project. Griffey explains the use cases of this project on FLOSS Weekly.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/709

David P. Reed talks with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Reed, one of the Internet's founding figures, discusses online freedom, openness operating systems (including the end-of-life for Linux) and about how standards and patents are naturally opposed.

Ilan Rabinovitch explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how SCaLE has grown to become the premier Linux and open-source conference—and to stay extremely affordable as well. Also how Linux, open source, conferences, communities, companies, and much else have changed over the years.

Doc Searls, Shawn Powers and Jonathan Corbet share their thoughts regarding diversity in the world of Linux kernel development. It leads to a great story from Corbet of LWN.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/700

Paul Mutton of Netcraft shares his thoughts on the use of adblockers in browsers with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman. Are adblockers effective? Are adblockers safe? Mutton explains.Full episode at twit.tv/floss653

Pre-show and post-show of FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls chats with Jonathan Bennett and guest Stephano Cetola. Doc has time in pre-show getting his new set square which leads to other "interesting" conversations. Post-show, the guest continues on with more RISC-V chatter and its future.

Jason Griffey of NISO is the guest this week on FLOSS Weekly. Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls talk with Griffey about all the lessons we should all be learning from the successes, failures and future implications of his LibraryBox project. A great discussion on standards, open hardware and privacy.

Jonathan Bennett discusses with Doc Searls and Shawn Bennett his findings regarding the validity of ChatGPT. The popular AI has been quite noteworthy, but is it any good?For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/711

Andy Parsons speaks with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman post-show on FLOSS Weekly discussing the premise of the content authenticity initiative and how it hopes to not fall in the hands of bad actors online. Also, sometimes it's fun watching our hosts in post-show reads.

Daniel Maslowski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk about open firmware. Open firmware is an almost ironic term, especially for IP cameras, given the proprietary purposes of most manufacturers. There is a large and active community of code and developments around open firmware, led largely in…

Jonathan Corbet of LWN tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers what's happening with the Linux Kernel, including the ascendence of Rust, the role of companies that employ developers and maintainers, the needs for more maintainers, plus diversity, and the growing role of the Linux Foundation. Great…

Mary Hodder joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb to discuss how open standards and open source can prove to be beneficial in construction today.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/651​

Jonathan Bennet discusses the HP Dev One laptop with Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. The HP Dev One comes with Linux installed and targets the developer market.Full episode at twit.tv/floss687

Matthew Hodgson of Matrix.org and Element.io explains to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Want a fully decentralized open-source chat that bridges to existing platforms and can even replace the phone system? Hodgson explains how we might soon get all that and more.

Matthew Hodgson speaks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly explaining how Matrix.org can be used in the bridging messaging services you may already have in place into a decentralized space.Full episode at twit.tv/floss688

Rob La Gesse, whose career spans business, military, politics and other fields, tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how inventive marketing helped make Rackspace a social media star while the company also teamed up with NASA and others on OpenStack, which is still helping grow the cloud…

Marko Saric of Plausible speaks with Shawn Powers and Doc Searls on FLOSS Weekly discussing how ad blockers work online. They don't quite work the way most developer communities think.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/675

Robin Gareus of Ardour speaks with Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls about the new features found in Ardour 7.1 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Ardour is an open source DAW.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/707

Tim Pozar and Brian David, both veterans of broadcasting, join Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. Broadcasting is easier, better and cheaper than ever to do, or to get into, thanks to open source developments of all kinds. Pozar and David share great information about this space.

There are some purposes for which only mainframes fit. In this show, John Mertic of the Linux Foundation tells Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how open source is a growing part of how mainframes fit, and how the open source community for the first time has a mainframe of its own.

Dave Taht returns from the future to talk with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about what's coming and going, plus a dozen other practical and important topics that revolve around freedom, openness (FOSS) and the Internet all of us need. Bufferbloat, latency and open source at this year's Blackhat…

Stormy Peters, VP of Communities at GitHub speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. Peters is one of the most passionate, committed, informed, and important leaders in the open-source world today. The panel covers AI, commitment, dependencies, funding, learning models, and much more.

Security Focused Software & HardwareDoc 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…

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb revisit Craig, the open source way to make live multitrack recordings of Discord sessions, with its new and already-seasoned maintainers, @Snazzah and @DJCoolguy. The new maintainers share their experience with transitioning from the previous developers as well as other…

Post-show of FLOSS Weekly, Rob La Gesse speaks with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about how family and company values that go hand-in-hand tend to be beneficial for both the family and the company. Doc also talks about how some kids learned how to read back in the day.

Brian David and Tim Pozar share what LibreTime and LiquidSoap are. These open source products are useful in the world of broadcasting. Great discussion with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/710

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Brian Behlendorf, one of the original authors of Apache, about his new gig at the Open Source Security Foundation, plus the many challenges of decentralization. As well as the challenges of getting governments to care about open source. Another great…

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett kick off the new year with a round table discussion regarding the world of open source. The hosts are joined by a special guest for this discussion, Leo Laporte. It's a great discussion regarding open source security, centralized versus…

Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great…

Drummond Reed shares with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps why Avast acquired Evernym on FLOSS Weekly. Avast is known for antivirus products, but has now taken a look at online identity security. Reed explains.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/673

Jonathan Riddell joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly to discuss his project KDE Neon. Phipps asks who in particular is KDE Neon for in the world of open source and Linux distributions.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/635

Buster Neece of AzuraCast joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly to share insight on the latest controversy surrounding open source audio editing software, Audacity. Is Audacity spyware?Subscribe & watch the full FLOSS Weekly podcast: https://twit.tv/floss/637

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb chat with Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation about today's approach to IT training and certifications. How does self-taught compare to a classroom environment regarding IT training and certifications?For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/643

Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls speak with James Vasile post-show on FLOSS Weekly. Bennet jokes and apologizes for asking many questions about Mastodon to Vasile. This leads to an interesting discussion lead by Vasile about social media today and the lack of awareness many of its users have…

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…

User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are just one of the many new and useful approaches to decentralization that James Walker, of fission.codes, shares with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch. If you want a detailed dose of pure optimism about Web3 working for you and me, this is the episode for…

Post show of FLOSS Weekly 653, Paul Mutton continues to chat with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about the state of online security and malware. This leads to comments about the use of TWiT's IRC as a back channel and audience discussion. Mutton reveals a surprise for those wanting to know more…

Elliot Williams, Hackaday.com Editor-in-Chief joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the term "hack." Why does it have such a bad connotation? Williams explains the good behind hacking.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/666

If you care about Linux and what goes into maintaining the kernel, you know how important Greg Kroah-Hartman is to stable releases and much more. On this can't-miss episode of FLOSS Weekly, Kroah-Hartman gives deep, knowing, and good-humored answers to questions from Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman,…

Matthias Kirschner explains Free Software Foundation Europe's unique and delightful approach to educating government, the public and fellow hackers on the virtues of free software. Kirschner also shares his new book, "Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream."…

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hart Montgomery of the Hyperledger Foundation about distributed data (not just the blockchain kind), decentralized trust, how the Foundation is fostering code useful to everyone in the world, what open digital wallets are—or should be—all about, the essential…

Andy Parsons, director of the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a lot of confidence that we really can change the Web and the world for the better. If you care about eliminating dis- and mis-information, you want authentic content and clear provenance…

When war over territory develops in the physical world, what happens to developers in the borderless networked one? Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Jonathan Bennett dive into that question, while also visiting other wartime tech topics, such as the new Universal Chiplet, exciting new device…

DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian David telling Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb about a large assortment of open-source tools and approaches that are ready to go for creators and…

Jonathan Riddell, who created and leads KDE Neon, gives Doc Searls and Simon Phipps the fascinating backstory of the project and what makes it distinctive. Here's a clue, it was inspired by surfing. The conversation also ranges across the past and future of Linux on desktops and laptops, KDE's…

Stephano Cetola joins Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls to discuss RISC-V. A Club TWiT member poses a question to Cetola about hold hardware potentially getting new life with RISC-V instructions written to it. It was a great chat on FLOSS Weekly.Full episode at twit.tv/floss636

Jonathan Bennett, Dan Lynch and Katherine Druckman join Doc Searls in a roundtable discussion of open source. QR codes are used as fishhooks for tracking. How can this be stopped? Then there's the report of "death of open source" which is wrong (again), rights to make and repair, and much more…

Can social media be decentralized? James Vasile of Open Tech Strategies and DSNP is working on several projects at once toward that goal. Vasile touches on these goals and much more including the fediverse, palgorithms (personal algorithms), advantages and limits of clouds and blockchains. It's a…

Getting started with electronics can be challenging. On FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls, Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett have found that getting into retro computer projects will help you better learn more about general electronic components.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv…