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Hackaday.com is what its new editor-in-chief, Elliot Williams, calls "a library of Alexandra for fugitive hacks"—and that's just one of the many deep and quotable things he shares with Doc Searls and co-host Jonathan Bennett, who is also a veteran Hackaday writer. Topics range from hackable gizmo…

Steve Stroh (N8GNJ) joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett (KG5IAR) for an hour of conversation regarding the world of wireless communication, HAM radio and open source. It's quite the masterclass as he discusses how HAM radio modeled and still practices openness for the world, packet radio, TNCs,…

"What's going on with forming the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe has the potential to do enormous harm to the open source movement and to the future prosperity of the entire human race," says Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation, this week's guest on FLOSS Weekly. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is…

Richard North of Atomicjar and Testcontainers talks about the experience of getting venture capital funding for open source projects. Dan Lynch and Doc Searls of FLOSS Weekly asks if there are any tips for pitching VC's and investors for your open source project. Also, what impact has the pandemic…

Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat about the popular web browsers today and privacy. QR codes have gained popularity since the pandemic, but many are concerned about the tracking and privacy implications of them. Mozilla has been concerned with how tracking cookies…

Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation joins FLOSS Weekly to discuss trends in hiring, training, diversity, the massive demand, as well as the need for both old and new school approaches across every open source code base. Remember when open source was a new thing no company cared about? Now it's…

History and freedom share the front seat as Fred Stutzman tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about how Sunsite became Ibiblio: one of the most important resources on the Internet—and how he grew personally through all that history. And then how he started and runs Freedom.to, a leading screen time…

Former Linux Journal editor in chief Don Marti, who Doc Searls calls the world's greatest living authority on online advertising, speaks with Doc and Katherine Druckman about the rapidly changing adtech world. How are companies big and small coping with those changes today? Marti also discusses the…

Software Heritage is an extraordinary, yet necessary effort to save all the world's software in all its versions and generations for all time. This effort is to help make historical source code accessible to everyone, but this initiative does come with many challenges. Naturally, Software Heritage…

Jeremy Ruston, creator and maintainer of TiddlyWiki, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on FLOSS Weekly for a lively hour that goes by fast. It's so interesting as Ruston shares how he invented TiddlyWiki almost by accident, and how quickly every new use (and there is no limit to those) expanded…

John Mertic of the Linux Foundation joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb of FLOSS Weekly. The Linux Foundation only gets bigger, more interesting and more important for the FLOSS world. There's nobody better to talk to about all of it than Mertic, Director of Program Management for this "foundation…

WireGuard, the VPN protocol that Linus Torvalds calls a "work of art," and is now in or close to the kernels of many operating systems, is the subject of this deep and wide-ranging show, in which WireGuard's founder and alpha maintainer, Jason Donenfeld, shares his wisdom and experience. Doc Searls…

Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain.Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open…

Shawn Powers and Doc Searls speak with Paula Hunter of Mojaloop regarding the challenges of online payments around the world. Powers questions whether a crypto backend could be beneficial to helping online payment processing be more accessible around the world. Hunter also discusses the works of…

Kosta Peric of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation chats with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch on FLOSS Weekly about the challenges of developed countries around the world with regards to financial inclusion and cashless payments. Everyone can't afford a top-notch smartphone, but should those…

This show is a special date in open source history: the one we share with Nick Vidal, creator and alpha maintainer of Open Anniversary. Through the whole show, Nick schools Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on the important timelines of major and soon-to-be-major open source movements, the cool ways…

Guy Martin has worked for everybody and done everything... or at least it seems that way. He also has 100% interesting, deep and knowing thoughts about important issues that have come up in his long career, especially in his current work in the standards world, running Oasis. All of that and more…

Without Dale Dougherty, our guest for this show, we might never have had the maker movement with Maker Faire, Make Magazine, Maker Camp, and the influence it has had on education, hardware, and software creation. In a deeply engaging hour, Dale brings Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb up to date on the…

The discussion of ethics in software development is an on-going one. There's software designed to do good. There's also software designed to do bad things. But, even software designed to do good things can be used for bad actions. Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers discuss the ethics…

CCPA.Doc Searls talks with Jonathan Bennet and Don Marti who is an expert on the California Consumer Privacy Act. They discuss how the CCPA is vital to the open-source community.Thanks to a new privacy law, California residents now have protections over the sale of their private online data. Here's…

What never stops and what's barely started are the topics debated by our panel of co-hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Aaron Newcomb and Simon Phipps. We start with the SCO vs. IBM (and before that, many others) lawsuit, which was reportedly settled. What really happened with the GoDaddy…

Ramón Huidobro of CodeSee joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Open source is bigger and wilder than ever, which means onboarding talent to a project is a serious thing. And nobody knows more or better about onboarding than Huidobro of CodeSee, which visualizes…

Steve Seguin & open-source video conferencing.Steve Seguin of OBS.Ninja joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb to discuss his exciting open source project. OBS Ninja gives you a peer-to-peer way to do video conferencing and much more via your browser as it features super-low latency and other tools…

Open source business model.How is open source utilized in the workplace? On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, veteran co-hosts Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of open source news in workplaces—both professional and personal. Topics include: open source business…

Picos and the self-sovereign internet.Phil Windley co-invented Picos (persistent compute objects) and discusses how they could make everything on Earth, including people, "smart" even without onboard electronics. He joins hosts Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about a new self-sovereign layer…

Embracing open source & open standards.IEEE SA Open is the gap between global standards development and open-source developer communities. Doc Searls talks with Simon Phipps and Silona Bonewald, the Executive Director of the IEEE SA Open about the meaning of "open." As well as how the IEEE SA…

Open source has enabled democratized communication in the tech world. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Tim Pozar, who has been building out network infrastructure since the 80s. They discuss the philosophy of communication and the history of open source, how it got its start with…

Paula Hunter, Executive Director of Mojaloop, joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the state of digital payments today. Mojaloop is an open-source project that provides the rails for interoperable digital payments between financial institutions, including banks and mobile…

Is it a coincidence that observability is both an essential feature of open source and also a scourge of our wantonly spied lives online? Can we use the former to solve the latter? That and many other questions are discussed during FLOSS Weekly. Join Doc Searls as he is joined by co-hosts Jonathan…

Arun Gupta, VP and General Manager of Open Ecosystems at Intel Corporation, joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Gupta has been an open source strategist, advocate and practitioner for nearly two decades, and is currently an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing…

Director of Technical Programs at RISC-V's, Stephano Cetola joins FLOSS Weekly. The RISC-V International was first to the table with an open-source ISA—Instruction Set Architecture—and every developer with a stake in the future is at that table, as participating members of RISC-V. And these are…

Linux kernel security done right—by Google, no less—kicks. Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers have a three-way roundtable discussion on FLOSS Weekly discussing recent open source news items. Is Microsoft making it easier than ever to run all your Windows apps and more on Linux? How's the…

Dr. Andre Kudra of esatus.com discusses SSI, or Self-Sovereign Identity. It's a hot and fast-moving topic with a growing base of hackers, companies, nonprofits, and whole states, provinces and countries. Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls probe Andre for lots of great intelligence about how SSI puts…

Roberto Di Cosmo of Software Heritage joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the challenges of giving life to forgotten development languages. There are 7000 languages known around the world today, but there are over 8000 programming languages known. Di Cosmo shares why it's…

Steve Klabnik joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about Rust. Rust, which was started at Mozilla, has grown to become one of the world's most relied-upon and fastest growing programming languages. Klabnik literally wrote the book on Rust. In the show, he visits how it differs from C++ and…

Blender, Gimp, Audacity.Looking at open source software from a creative lens and discussing the importance and ease of using open-source software to make art, graphics, video, and more. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Jason van Gumster a creator, engineer, and host of the podcast, Open…

Encouraging open-source computing.Reflecting on the 20-year anniversary of Linux on IBM Z mainframes. Hosts Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb talk with Boaz Betzler, one of the original team members from the IBM Böblingen Lab in Germany responsible for porting Linux onto the IBM Z mainframes. They…

Openbase, Elastic vs AWS.Matt Asay believes we need a new way to think about open source. This comes on the heels of the Elastic vs AWS controversy. Shawn Powers and new co-host Katherine Druckman join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of ethics and open source on FLOSS Weekly. The panel takes a…

Evernym & verifiable credentials.Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but,…

DemocracyLab connects tech for good projects with skilled volunteers. This non-profit sets out to empower people who use technology to advance the common good. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Mark Frischmuth, the founder and Executive Director of DemocracyLab. They discuss how…

Use of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers.Explaining Self-sovereign identity and the use of verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers, Kaliya Young, also known as "Identity Women," joins the show hosted by Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennet. They dive deep into what…

Deputy Director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Kosta Peric sits with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a discussion on digital public goods as well as how the cashless future is being pioneered in Africa and other countries around the world. It's a…

How do you protect your privacy when Congress will not? Denise Howell, Bob Cattanach, Josh Gilliand, and Matt Curtis discuss the implications of S.J.Res.34 and what to expect from your ISP. If absolute privacy is not real, are back doors okay? E-Discovery - can I just request it all? A new monkey…

Richard North was the dog that caught the bus when all of a sudden his open source project, Testcontainers, took off, and now has more than a million monthly downloads and developers using it at Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Google and other settings large and small. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with…

Browsers and the Web are just one model for making the Internet work. Another is one Doc Searls and his colleagues at Customer Commons are working on: the Intention Byway. With co-hosts Katherine Druckman and Shawn Powers, Doc discusses how it all works: with compute nodes called "intentrons" at…

Keith Packard of Freedesktop.org joins Simon Phipps and Doc Searls on FLOSS Weekly to discuss a controversial matter regarding the return of Richard Stallman (RMS) to the Free Software Foundation board of directors. The question at hand: is it possible to separate free software and the community…

In-memory data structure store. Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers check in with Christoph Zimmermann, who is a community manager of Redis Labs. They discuss the multiple ways…

Machine learning, driverless AI, open-source AI.H2O.ai is driving an open AI movement. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennet talk with Sri Ambati, the founder of H2O.ai, about the H2O Driverless AI; it is an automatic machine learning platform for the enterprise and helps data scientists across the world…

ASF, Apache license, decentralization.Hadrian Zbarcea is a champion for open source for the last 15 years. He is a member and VP at the Apache Software Foundation. He is the founder of Apifocal and has involvement in designing massive scale messaging and integration platforms for many organizations…

Trusting open source in government and business.David A. Wheeler, Ph.D., a frequent guest of the show, is now the Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation. Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk to David about that and many related efforts he's involved with at the Linux…