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Global certification for open-source.In this episode, we discuss open source certification as well as career support offered through LPI. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb interview Jon "Maddog" Hall, who is a committed educator and a community developer. He is the board chair at LPI as well as the Co…

Allison Randal, FLOSS landscape.Nobody sees or understands the big FLOSS story better than Allison Randal, a veteran of .ORGs for Perl, Python, Parrot, Openstack, Software Freedom, Open Usage, and FLOSS; .COMs that include HP, Canonical, SUSE and O'Reilly; plus countless events for all those…

Affiliate accounts for bloggers, ringtone performance fees, R.I.A.A, Facebook land rush, and more.Audible picks: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as UsualUnabridged, By Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and more. Narrated by Dick Summer, and Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome…

Open source language, package installer, programming Python.PIP is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes. It is the most downloaded package on the Python Package Index. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb talk with the project…

The open-source software that allows you to organize your life with VR! Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Liam Broza, the CEO and Co-founder of LifeScope. The discuss the LifeScope platform, which is built to organizes your existing data and allows you to manage it better. It is a…

Hyperledger is an open-source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools, and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of Hyperledger. They discuss the growth of Hyperledger since…

Combining machine learning algorithm, and decision logic.TrustyAI is a new open-source initiative from within the Knowledge Is Everything (KIE) Group that’s designed to increase trust in the decision-making processes that depend on AI predictive models. With TrustyAI, decisions can be regulated to…

User freedom, consent & rights.What are the rights users have when using technology built by big tech? Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Molly De Blanc and Karen Sandler, and discuss their Declaration of Digital Autonomy. The declaration was created to build awareness and ideally change people…

Created with AI, edited by humans.A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects. Doc Searls and Dan Lynch sat with Aral Balkan of Small Technology Foundation as he argued the venture capital model dooms most startups to unethical business…

HIE Of One is a non-profit patient privacy rights foundation designed to advance healthcare information solutions and standards. Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Adrian Gropper MD, who is the volunteer CTO of HIE. They discuss how in today’s healthcare environment, medical records and personal…

P.L.A.T.O. is an acronym for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations. Before the internet, there was the PLATO system which was not only computer-based education but, surprisingly, the first online community. Doc Searls talks with Shawn Powers and Brian Dear who was the author of…

Girls Gone Wild, Kazaa, Prince and the DMCA, Ben Stein, Creative Commons, and more.Talking points: http://del.icio.us/thisweekinlaw/17.Audible pick: The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual By Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, Narrated by Dick SummerThanks to Victor Cajiao…

AI-created, human-edited.On a recent episode of the FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett had an in-depth discussion with open source pioneer Evan Prodromou about how to get more people using the decentralized social network Mastodon and its underlying ActivityPub protocol…

Engineering Manager at Aiven, Ahmed Sobeh joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly. What new stuff is happening with open source development? Look to the developing world. That's what Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb learn from Ahmed Sobeh in a show packed with insights.

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Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman chat post-show with guest Roman Tsisyk of Organic Maps.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls share some funny stories and new voices. 

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with Frank Karlitschek about Nextcloud and what's coming down the pike.

William Kwok speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about Apache SeaTunnel, an exciting and extremely useful open-source way to synchronize multiple databases.

Doc Searls and Shawn Powers talk with Liverpool musician and FLOSS co-host Dan Lynch about music, events, LUGs and histories past and future.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Simon Phipps speak with F-Droid contributor Hans Christoph Steiner about the European Digital Rights movement.

Jared Watts and Nic Cope, two founding engineers with Upbound and developers on Crossplane, join Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss control planes for Kubernetes and clouds.

Doc Searls and Ant Pruitt talk with Jonathan Bennett about life, love, open source, and what's up with Red Hat. Also, how to bake a printer?

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with Kyle Rankin about publishing a book and also get a look at some of Rankin's old adding machines.

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulation and more.

Dan Middleton, of Intel and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), dives deep on the topic of confidential computing (CoCo) and many related concerns, such as Trusted Execution Environments with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with guests Nic Cope and Jared Watts about their company Crossplane and why Go was used for the product. Also, popsicles.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Golda Velez and "Romeo" Chukwuemeka the panel chats more about AI, some funny show titles and one-liners.

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly social networks on the Internet.

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and the final FLOSS Weekly as well.

Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning.

David Sifry gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a deep, detailed, enthusiastic, and original take on what's up with AI from an open source angle. It's an interesting discussion on FLOSS Weekly.

On FLOSS Weekly, Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speak with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman of IQXR about the challenges of AI and the open source principles where AI co-mingles.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with the guests Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Merroll about open-source game development beyond the popular Endless Sky game.

Post-show on FLOSS Weekly, guest David Sifry shares more thoughts on the world of AI and the current news cycle. It's a great discussion off of the show with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses.

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Roman Tsisyk, founder and top maintainer of Organic Maps, an extremely active and exciting open source project for people who like or need to travel off line and in privacy.

On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourses on music and low-latency conferencing and online jams.

Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of capabilities, all independent of giant gatekeepers.

Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka talk with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly about big AI questions nobody else is asking—and getting deep and surprising answers, you won't want to miss.

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen of Meshtastic about adventures of many kinds—all using open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network that runs on inexpensive, low-power devices.

Doc Searls and Dan Lynch talk with Tim Bonneman about how to help open-source science follow the road to success paved by open-source software development and build on lots of interesting and exciting work already going on.

What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft of projects he talks about with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly.

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an account and find only free and open source apps. 

Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open world we've been losing and how to get it back.

Pre-show on FLOSS Weekly, Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman sit with guest Damien Riehl. Doc explains his allergy to California, we learn more about the guest and North Dakota. And then there's Katherine's VOICE on her new mic. 

Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between GPL licenses v2 and v3 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

On FLOSS Weekly, Jonathan Bennett discusses the Incus Project with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/747

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the veteran top-level Linux kernel maintainer, about the human side of how kernel development works, how AI is still just pattern matching, and how life is about updating everything you can.

Kyle Ranking discusses LaTex on FLOSS Weekly with Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls with regards to book publishing.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/749