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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…

Marko Saric of Plausible joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to unpack the challenges and rewards of dropping Google Analytics and using an open source alternative such as Plausible.io. This conversation is especially timely given a shifting regulatory environment in which—among other developments…

Peter Adams is an amazing photographer that captured many powerful photos featuring members of the open source community. On FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls asks Adams about his particular style and approach in capturing iconic photos of these community members.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https…

Post show of FLOSS Weekly, Shawn Powers and Doc Searls speak with Paula Hunter of Mojaloop regarding their open source project as well as the information on the website. Shawn jokes about what he learned and didn't learn from the website. Hunter takes this as constructive criticism to help make the…

Fedora dumps CC0. What does this mean for open source developers? Doc Searls, Shawn Powers and Jonathan Bennett discuss on FLOSS Weekly the implications of this move from Fedora and how it relates to developers. Intel plants its flag in the discrete GPU marketspace with ARC GPU. Shawn Powers feels…

David Huseby speaks with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about the state of today's web. You have Web 2.0, but never had Web 1.0? Web 5, decentralized web and open source is also discussed on FLOSS Weekly.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/686

Doc Searls shares a quick story about some dumb things he and other smart people did one time while at a beach in the Carolinas. FLOSS Weekly Guest David Huseby also shares some insight on a mere ten lines of code being a huge success for a company as well as share a new finding of his in the…

Amit Taylor of TrueUp joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to share information about current job postings in the open-source community. Bennett asks Taylor to define what exactly is an open-source job on the FLOSS Weekly podcast.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/679

Lisa LeVasseur joins Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly. She discusses the terms "privacy" and "safety." Privacy doesn't particularly mean safety. LeVassuer explains that we should be mindful of our language regarding these terms.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv…

David P. Reed joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly discussing make items about open standards and online freedom. Reed said he's been a little embarrassed about his title of "the designer of UDP." He explains why.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/701

In cybersecurity, there isn't an ethical dilemma for bad actors, but there is for good ones making and improving open source code that bad actors can use too. Marcus Sailler schools Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about that dilemma, and how he deals with it as Head of Offensive Security in the…

On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Doc Searls, Devindra Hardawar, and Philip Elmer-DeWitt talk about Elon Musk's control of Twitter and how he compares to other technology leaders.For the whole episode visit: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/899

Alex Belokrylov of Bellsoft tells Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how Java has evolved into an ideal language for cloud infrastructure, especially through the Liberica JDK and Bellsoft's new Alpaquita Linux distro: the only Linux optimized for Java. Reduced costs, faster deployment, better security…

On FLOSS Weekly, Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls asks Alex Belokrylov of Bellsoft about the Alpaquita Linux distro. What is it and why is it useful?Subscribe and watch the full 'FLOSS Weekly' podcast: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/715

Matt Mullenweg, founder, CEO and president of Automattic, talks to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how WordPress—their main product and open source project—is the "dark matter of the Web." He also tells us what's up with Tumblr, Openverse, WooCommerce, the Gutenberg block editor, and other…

Lorenzo Miniero of Meetecho and the author of the Janus open source WebRTC server, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for an informative conversation regarding live streaming and broadcasting, new and better ways to bring in network devices, OBS, virtual and hybrid events, WHIP, the open source…

Pietro di Caprio joins Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Shawn Powers to discuss VanillaOS. The question is why should anyone use VanillaOS when there are options such as Linux Mint and Arch Linux available as distros.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/725

Martin Sosic, Co-Founder and CTO of Wasp joins Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly. Wasp is a simple and exciting new open-source language for developing full-stack web apps with less code. Sosic shares more about Wasp as well as where web development is going and many of the issues…

Martin Sosic joins Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly to talk about the web development language Wasp and how easy it is to learn it. Sosic draws parallels between Wasp and other development languages being used today for web development.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: …

Mike Schwartz of Gluu.org joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly. In a world where cloud native and containers are widely used, digital identity poses a critical challenge. No one person knows more about making digital ID work than Schwartz. Gluu is an open source option which offers…

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols about what's happening in technology journalism, with the open source world he knows perhaps better than any other journalist on the case, and with where he got started: in space and space technologies. (Bonus fact: Steven digs…

Are COBOL developers in demand in 2021? John Mertic of the Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project discusses with Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb of FLOSS Weekly if COBOL developers are in need today in the world of IT.For this and more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/624

Sandra Henry-Stocker, @bugfarm on Twitter, whose column for Network World is Unix as a Second Language, joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch from her home in the mountains of Western Virginia to share wisdom gathered from more than 30 years administering and writing about Unix and Linux systems. The…

Darrell O'Donnell of Continuum Loop tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how digital wallets will have to work in a world of self-sovereign identity (SSI) on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Digital wallets will have all the identity information you need, but with the ability to confine output to only…

Silicon Valley technology veteran, Mary Hodder, joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly to talk open source in construction. Home construction is the original open-source field, and nobody knows more about making it work than Hodder. Where does open source fit in the world of…

Deb Goodkin, Executive Director at the FreeBSD Foundation chats with Shawn Powers and Doc Searls about FreeBSD. How does Linux compare to FreeBSD? Goodkin explains and also shares a story about Linus Torvalds sharing his support for the FreeBSD project and hierarchy.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly…

Avery Pennarun was previously on FLOSS Weekly discussing his startup Tailscale as it aims to make creating secure network connections super easy. Since Pennarun's last appearance, Tailscale has received $100 million in funding to push the service into the mainstream further, all while honoring open…

On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte was joined by Steve Gibson, Paul Thurrott, Jeff Jarvis, and Doc Searls to talk about the year's biggest themes including a look at the rapid ascent of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on art, authorship, and more.Full episode at twit.tv/twit907

Simon Phipps and Doc Searls asks Christine Hall about the GPL and it's importance. There are many "defenders" of the GPL. Hall explains the take of those defenders as well as look at the GPL in relation to today's enterprise IT.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/716

Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, is a fan of the future of open source who also has vast experience in its past—especially in businesses of all sizes: from MySQL in its early days, through Sun Microsystems, Eucalyptus, HP, Nokia and other companies. All of which he shares with Doc Searls and Simon…

Drupal is the popular open-source content management system developed by Dries Buytaert. How did this project get started? Better yet, how did Buytaert come up with the name Drupal for this product? Buytaert explains on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman.For more, check out FLOSS…

Paul Mutton of Netcraft gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman an hour of wisdom, experience and stories about items we can worry about less because he and Netcraft are on the case. If you care about cybercrime, phishing, malware, or any of the many vulnerabilities that afflict us all online, this…

Security with open source, the new OSSF, what Substack is doing to newsletters and newsletters are doing to blogging (and both are doing to the growing subscription economy), plus a call for open source tools that help subscribers manage their oversubscribed lives. All those and more are subjects…

Dr. Andre Kudra, who plays "retro geek jazz" with Aaron Newcomb (himself a retro master) and host Doc Searls in this fact and fun-filled episode about retro computing and Demoscene. Nothing in computing gets more open, real, and truly deep—close to the metal—in a fun way, than retro computing and…

Did you know that being verified on Twitter now means you "may or may not be notable?" Shawn Powers shares with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett how he found that out the hard way while all three dig deep into Twitter vs. the Fediverse, blogging, ChatGPT, and much more in a show packed with facts…

"Yannis Weasel" isn't real, but his creations are. Craig is indispensable for multi-track voice channel recording on Discord, and Ennuicastr lets you record everything else online. On FLOSS Weekly, "Yannis" joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss these projects, the open source community…

Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. There are lots of ways FreeBSD is not Linux or vice versa. Or ways they're actually better for some purposes. Just ask Netflix. In a lively hour of conversation, Goodkin…

It's a controversial discussion regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Gitlab considered cutting off Russia from its service. But is that the right thing to do? Katherine Druckman, Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls discuss the implications of this happening to innocent open source developers in…

HackerOne CEO, Marten Mickos joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps to discuss the importance of the open-source community involvement in the information security sector. Like Red Hat, Micoks believes HackerOne can be pivotal in forging more relationships between enterprise IT and the open-source…

The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and…

OBS Ninja has been an alternative to Zoom and Skype for video conferencing. But can OBS Ninja compete with Zoom on a larger scale? Steve Seguin, creator of OBS Ninja shares insight on OBS Ninja versus Zoom and scaling potential on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb.For more, check out…

Freedesktop.org, X System.Free software legend, Keith Packard, the prime mover behind the X Window System and Freedesktop.org joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. A range of topics are discussed including the controversy of Richard Stallman returning to the Free Software Foundation …

Avery Pennarun of Tailscale and much more, blows the minds of Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on a can't-miss show that explains how the best development is all "chickens and eggs." Pennarun explains thatfree software and open source is the gifting nature of the former, and how startups succeed and…

Lisa LeVasseur is a veteran engineer on a mission to get the businesses of the world, the "B's," to treat each of us, the "Me's," more respectfully online. That's one mission of her nonprofit, the Me2B Alliance. LeVasseur discusses with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman in a show that also explores…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Doc Searls (00:00:00):This is Floss Weekly. I'm Doc Searls. This week, Jonathan Bennett and I talked with Jared Watts and Nick Cope, who…

Buster Neece, lead developer of AzuraCasts joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to talk online radio in the open source community and more. AzuraCast is "web radio in a box" that has an intuitive design and meticulous attention to detail for a great user experience. Neece also shares troubling fallout…

Dave Taht is one of the Internet's unsung (but singing) heroes, and is doing more than anyone today to rescue your Internet connection from something you haven't heard of, but should: bufferbloat. On FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett spend an information-packed hour with Dave, digging…

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging…

Chatcola is an open-source server with decentralized communication software that does not need user authentication. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Milan Kazarka, who is the co-founder of Chatcola. They discuss how Chatcola is unique because it doesn't hold the data, and all messages get…

Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb are together on FLOSS Weekly taking a look at the challenges of switching to Linux, even though Linux runs on many things used in everyday life. System76 has decided to build a non-Gnome desktop for its distro. Why? Bennett addresses the allegations of…