FLOSS Weekly
Encyclopedia
FLOSS Weekly is a free software
/ open source
(FLOSS
) themed podcast
from the TWiT Network
. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It was originally hosted by Leo Laporte
; his cohost for the first seventeen episodes was Chris DiBona
and subsequently Randal Schwartz. In May of 2010, Randal Schwartz took over the lead host position, freeing up Leo Laporte for other opportunities.
Many influential people from the free and open source community have appeared on the show, including Kent Beck
, Ward Cunningham
, Miguel de Icaza
, Rasmus Lerdorf
, Tim O'Reilly
, Guido van Rossum
, Linus Torvalds
, and Jimmy Wales
. Show topics are wide in variety, and have for example included ZFS
, Mifos, Asterisk, and the OSU
Open Source Lab.
, who runs the TWiT
podcast network, and Chris DiBona
, now the open source program manager at Google
. FLOSS
is an acronym for Free/Libre Open Source Software
. The show was intended to be a weekly interview with the biggest names and influences in open source software. Episode one of FLOSS Weekly appeared on April 7, 2006.
Towards the end of 2006, episodes began to appear less frequently, dropping to a monthly basis. DiBona's newborn baby and commitments at Google were cited as reasons for the show's stagnation, and on the seventeenth episode, Laporte appealed for other co-hosts to share the burden. This was DiBona's final appearance on the show as the host. He returned as a guest for the show's 100th episode
The show went on an unannounced three-month hiatus, re-appearing on July 21, 2007, with a new co-host, Randal Schwartz
, who had previously appeared on the show as a guest. Schwartz has since taken over organizing guests for the show, and has restored the show to a predominantly weekly schedule (with occasional gaps from scheduling conflicts or last minute cancellations). Starting with episode 69, Jono Bacon
has been a somewhat regular co-host, even filling in for Randal when Randal wasn't available.
The show was nominated for the 2009 Podcast Awards
in the Technology/Science category.
In May 2010, the show began publishing a video feed (along with many of the rest of the TWiT network shows), and moved to an earlier recording time. As a result of the new recording time, Leo Laporte stepped down as the lead host, and Jono Bacon could no longer regularly co-host. Randal Schwartz is now the lead host, and is currently using a rotating panel of co-hosts, selected on the basis of availability and appropriateness for the guest.
it is written in, which version control system
is used, and what development environment the author uses). Some shows, such as the interviews with Jon "maddog" Hall and Simon Phipps
, are not specific to an open source project, and feature more general topics, such as the philosophy of free and open source software. Shows begin and end with a brief discussion between Schwartz and his co-host, before and after calling the guest. Often the guests are interviewed via Skype
, with Laporte's staff at TWiT being responsible for the audio recording and production. FLOSS Weekly has been supported by advertising and donations. In October 2006, FLOSS Weekly had 31,661 downloads of episode 14.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
/ open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
(FLOSS
Alternative terms for free software
Alternative terms for free software have been a controversial issue among free software users from the late 1990s onwards. Coined in 1983 by Richard Stallman, "free software" is used to describe software which can be used, modified, and redistributed with little or no restriction...
) themed podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
from the TWiT Network
TWiT.tv (network)
The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...
. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It was originally hosted by Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
; his cohost for the first seventeen episodes was Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google...
and subsequently Randal Schwartz. In May of 2010, Randal Schwartz took over the lead host position, freeing up Leo Laporte for other opportunities.
Many influential people from the free and open source community have appeared on the show, including Kent Beck
Kent Beck
Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001....
, Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham
Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...
, Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his...
, Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...
, Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...
, Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator For Life" , meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary...
, Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
, and Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
. Show topics are wide in variety, and have for example included ZFS
ZFS
In computing, ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes , support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management,...
, Mifos, Asterisk, and the OSU
OSU
OSU can stand for:* Institutions of higher education:** Ohio State University** Oregon State University** Oklahoma State University** Oswego State University * The Order of St...
Open Source Lab.
History
FLOSS Weekly was started by Leo LaporteLeo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
, who runs the TWiT
TWiT.tv (network)
The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...
podcast network, and Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google...
, now the open source program manager at Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
. FLOSS
Floss
Floss may refer to:* Dental floss, used to clean teeth* Embroidery thread, machine or hand-spun yarn for embroidery* Fairy floss or candyfloss, alternative names for cotton candy* Rousong, i.e. meat floss-Computing:...
is an acronym for Free/Libre Open Source Software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
. The show was intended to be a weekly interview with the biggest names and influences in open source software. Episode one of FLOSS Weekly appeared on April 7, 2006.
Towards the end of 2006, episodes began to appear less frequently, dropping to a monthly basis. DiBona's newborn baby and commitments at Google were cited as reasons for the show's stagnation, and on the seventeenth episode, Laporte appealed for other co-hosts to share the burden. This was DiBona's final appearance on the show as the host. He returned as a guest for the show's 100th episode
The show went on an unannounced three-month hiatus, re-appearing on July 21, 2007, with a new co-host, Randal Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:...
, who had previously appeared on the show as a guest. Schwartz has since taken over organizing guests for the show, and has restored the show to a predominantly weekly schedule (with occasional gaps from scheduling conflicts or last minute cancellations). Starting with episode 69, Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
has been a somewhat regular co-host, even filling in for Randal when Randal wasn't available.
The show was nominated for the 2009 Podcast Awards
Podcast Awards
The People's Choice Podcast Awards, better known as the Podcast Awards, are an annual set of awards given to the best podcasts as voted by the people...
in the Technology/Science category.
In May 2010, the show began publishing a video feed (along with many of the rest of the TWiT network shows), and moved to an earlier recording time. As a result of the new recording time, Leo Laporte stepped down as the lead host, and Jono Bacon could no longer regularly co-host. Randal Schwartz is now the lead host, and is currently using a rotating panel of co-hosts, selected on the basis of availability and appropriateness for the guest.
Format
Most episodes feature the primary developer or developers of a particular open source software project. The show is an open discussion, with Laporte and Schwartz asking questions about the nature of the project. Typically, the interviewers will ask the guests about the history of the project, and its development model (such as which languageProgramming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
it is written in, which version control system
Revision control
Revision control, also known as version control and source control , is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. It is most commonly used in software development, where a team of people may change the same files...
is used, and what development environment the author uses). Some shows, such as the interviews with Jon "maddog" Hall and Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps (programmer)
Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper...
, are not specific to an open source project, and feature more general topics, such as the philosophy of free and open source software. Shows begin and end with a brief discussion between Schwartz and his co-host, before and after calling the guest. Often the guests are interviewed via Skype
Skype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
, with Laporte's staff at TWiT being responsible for the audio recording and production. FLOSS Weekly has been supported by advertising and donations. In October 2006, FLOSS Weekly had 31,661 downloads of episode 14.
Shows
The following lists all the shows that have been produced. There is a public list of potential future guests, although the show is only scheduled two months out.| 2006 FLOSS Weekly episode list | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| URL | Date | Guest | Project / Company |
| Episode 1 | April 7, 2006 | Chris DiBona Chris DiBona Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google... |
Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
| Episode 2 | April 14, 2006 | Ben Goodger Ben Goodger Ben Goodger is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and former lead developer of the Firefox web browser.... |
Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. , Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 25% of worldwide usage share of web browsers... |
| Episode 3 | April 22, 2006 | Rob Malda Rob Malda Rob Malda , also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.... (CmdrTaco) |
Slashdot Slashdot Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section... |
| Episode 4 | May 3, 2006 | Brad Fitzpatrick Brad Fitzpatrick Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick , is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached.... , chromatic Chromatic (programmer) chromatic is the pseudonym of a writer and free software programmer who resides in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He is the author of Extreme Programming Pocket Guide, a co-author of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook, the lead author of Perl Hacks, and an uncredited contributor to The Art of... |
LiveJournal LiveJournal LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community.... , Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
| Episode 5 | May 12, 2006 | Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his... |
GNOME GNOME GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software... , Mono Mono (software) Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.... |
| Episode 6 | May 19, 2006 | Larry Augustin Larry Augustin Larry Augustin is CEO of SugarCRM and is a former venture capitalist and the co-founder and former chairman of VA Software, now known as Geeknet. He founded VA Research, the predecessor to that company, in 1993 while a Ph.D... |
VA Software |
| Episode 7 | May 26, 2006 | Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company.... |
Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Foundation Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based... |
| Episode 8 | June 16, 2006 | Ryan Gordon | Simple DirectMedia Layer Simple DirectMedia Layer Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform, free and open source multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface to various platforms' graphics, sound, and input devices.... |
| Episode 9 | July 15, 2006 | Randal Schwartz | Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
| Episode 10 | July 22, 2006 | Jeff Bates Jeff Bates (Slashdot) Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda . Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1994 and received a Bachelor's degree in History from Hope College in 1998.... |
Slashdot Slashdot Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section... |
| Episode 11 | August 4, 2006 | Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator For Life" , meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary... |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
| Episode 12 | August 11, 2006 | Rasmus Lerdorf Rasmus Lerdorf Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
| Episode 13 | September 27, 2006 | Eben Moglen Eben Moglen Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation.... |
Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software... |
| Episode 14 | October 13, 2006 | Jeremy Allison Jeremy Allison Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License.... |
Samba Samba (software) Samba is a free software re-implementation, originally developed by Andrew Tridgell, of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. As of version 3, Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Primary Domain... |
| Episode 15 | November 10, 2006 | Tarus Balog Tarus Balog Tarus Balog is the CEO of the OpenNMS Group. He is the current maintainer of the OpenNMS open source network management project.- Interviews :* FLOSS Weekly 15: Tarus Balog of OpenNMS, the FLOSS Weekly podcast, for November 10, 2006.- Articles :... |
OpenNMS OpenNMS OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring and network management platform developed under the free software or open source model. It consists of a community supported, free software project as well as a corporation, The OpenNMS Group, offering commercial services, training and support.The... |
| 2007 FLOSS Weekly episode list | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| URL | Date | Guest | Project / Company |
| Episode 16 | February 21, 2007 | Jeff Waugh Jeff Waugh Jeff Waugh is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.- Career :... |
linux.conf.au Linux.conf.au linux.conf.au is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers.... |
| Episode 17 | March 24, 2007 | Jon "maddog" Hall | Linux International Linux International Linux International, also known simply as LI, is a worldwide, non-profit association of groups, corporations and others that work towards the promotion of growth of Linux and FOSS. It is headed by Jon "maddog" Hall.... |
| Episode 18 | July 21, 2007 | Josh Berkus | PostgreSQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software... |
| Episode 19 | September 1, 2007 | Junio Hamano | git Git (software) Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on... |
| Episode 20 | October 17, 2007 | Jay Shirley | Catalyst Catalyst (software) Catalyst is an open source web application framework written in Perl, that closely follows the model–view–controller architecture, and supports a number of experimental web patterns. It is written using Moose, a modern object system for Perl... |
| Episode 21 | November 23, 2007 | Avi Bryant | Seaside Smalltalk Web Application Framework |
| Episode 22 | December 22, 2007 | Fernanda Weiden | Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
| 2008 FLOSS Weekly episode list | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| URL | Date | Guest | Project / Company |
| Episode 23 | January 4, 2008 | Nate Koechley | YUI Library |
| Episode 24 | February 8, 2008 | David Kirk Buck, Chris Cason | POV-Ray POV-Ray The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program available for a variety of computer platforms. It was originally based on DKBTrace, written by David Kirk Buck and Aaron A. Collins. There are also influences from the earlier Polyray raytracer contributed by its author... |
| Episode 25 | February 29, 2008 | Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel | Blender Blender (software) Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games. The current release version is 2.60, and was released on October 19, 2011... |
| Episode 26 | March 7, 2008 | D. Richard Hipp D. Richard Hipp Dwayne Richard Hipp is the architect and primary author of SQLite as well as Fossil SCM. He and his wife, Ginger G. Wyrick, currently live and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also authored the Lemon Parser Generator and CVSTrac. CVSTrac became the inspiration for Trac. He is also a member of... |
SQLite SQLite SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard... |
| Episode 27 | March 21, 2008 | Ward Cunningham Ward Cunningham Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on... |
WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first... (the first Wiki Wiki A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include... ), AboutUs.org AboutUs.org AboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information.... |
| Episode 28 | April 4, 2008 | Greg Stein Greg Stein Greg Stein , living in Fairfax, VA, USA, is a programmer, speaker, sometime standards architect, and open-source software advocate, appearing frequently at conferences and in interviews on the topic of open-source software development and use.He is a director of the Apache Software Foundation, and... |
WebDAV WebDAV Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers... Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
| Episode 29 | May 23, 2008 | Dan Ingalls | Smalltalk Smalltalk Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist... , Squeak Squeak The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation. It is object-oriented, class-based and reflective.It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers... |
| Episode 30 | June 28, 2008 | Philip Papadopoulos, Greg Bruno | Rocks Cluster Distribution Rocks Cluster Distribution Rocks Cluster Distribution is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing clusters. It was started by National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the SDSC in 2000 and was initially funded in part by an NSF grant but is currently funded by the followup NSF... |
| Episode 31 | July 5, 2008 | Tom Barbalet Tom Barbalet Tom Barbalet is the creator of Noble Ape, editor of Biota.org and co-chair of the IGDA Intellectual Property Rights SIG.Born in 1976 in Adelaide, South Australia, Barbalet developed a series of interpreters, compilers, anti-viral programs and the Schmuck Quest series of graphics/text adventure... |
Noble Ape Noble Ape Noble Ape is an artificial life development project launched in June, 1996 by Tom Barbalet. It was designed to be a forum for a diversity of contributors to work towards a coherent cognitive simulation development environment.-The Simulation:... |
| Episode 32 | July 14, 2008 | John Roberts John Roberts (software entrepreneur) John Roberts is an American software entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of SugarCRM, serving on both the board of directors and as CEO until resigning from both roles on May 7, 2009.-Career:... |
SugarCRM SugarCRM SugarCRM is a software company based in Cupertino, California. They produce the web application Sugar, also known as SugarCRM, which is a customer relationship management system that is available in both open source and Commercial open source applications.Sugar's functionality includes sales-force... |
| Episode 33 | July 19, 2008 | Dalibor Topic, Bruno Souza Bruno Souza Bruno Souza is the President of SOUJava, a Brazilian Java User Group. He promotes himself as the "JavaMan"Javali, a project owned by SOUJava, is focused in increasing Java usage in Brazil... |
OpenJDK OpenJDK OpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of the Java programming language. It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006... |
| Episode 34 | July 26, 2008 | Jacob Kaplan-Moss | Django |
| Episode 35 | August 2, 2008 | Brian Aker Brian Aker Brian Aker, born August 4, 1972 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA is an open-source hacker who has worked on various Apache modules, the Slash system, and numerous storage engines for the MySQL database. Aker was Director of Architecture at MySQL AB until it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He led... |
Drizzle Drizzle (database server) Drizzle is a free software/open source relational database management system that was forked from version 6.0 of the MySQL DBMS.Like MySQL, Drizzle has a client/server architecture and uses SQL as its primary command language... |
| Episode 36 | August 20, 2008 | Jan Lehnardt | CouchDB CouchDB Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is an open source document-oriented database written mostly in the Erlang programming language. It is part of the NoSQL group of data stores and is designed for local replication and to scale horizontally across a wide range of devices... |
| Episode 37 | August 23, 2008 | Evan Prodromou | Identi.ca Identi.ca identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification, Identi.ca allows users to send text updates up to 140 characters long... , Laconica Laconica StatusNet is a FLOSS microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, StatusNet seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between... |
| Episode 38 | August 30, 2008 | Mark Spencer | Asterisk Asterisk (PBX) Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange ; it was created in 1999 by Mark Spencer of Digium. Like any PBX, it allows attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network and... , Digium Digium Digium, Inc. is a privately held communications technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. Digium specializes in developing and manufacturing communications hardware and telephony software, most notably the open-source telephony platform Asterisk.... |
| Episode 39 | September 5, 2008 | Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
| Episode 40 | September 12, 2008 | Jeff Robbins Jeff Robbins Jeff Lowe Robbins is an American musician and web developer.Robbins was an employee of O'Reilly And Associates in the early 1990s and participated in the development of Global Network Navigator, the first commercial web publication, before founding the web design company Liquid Media in 1994.Also... |
Lullabot, Drupal Drupal Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and... |
| Episode 41 | September 19, 2008 | Shaun B. Walker | DotNetNuke DotNetNuke DotNetNuke is an open source web content management system based on Microsoft .NET technology.DotNetNuke was written in VB.NET, though the developer has shifted to C# since version 6.0. It is distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and commercial proprietary licenses as the... |
| Episode 42 | September 26, 2008 | Roger Dannenberg | Audacity Audacity Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University... |
| Episode 43 | October 4, 2008 | Paul Louden | Rockbox Rockbox Rockbox is a replacement for the standard firmware in various forms of digital audio players . It offers an alternative to the player's operating system, in many cases without removing the original firmware, which provides a plug-in architecture for adding various enhancements and functions... |
| Episode 44 | October 10, 2008 | Gregory Casamento, Riccardo Mottola | GNUstep GNUstep GNUstep is a free software implementation of Cocoa Objective-C libraries , widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU Project.GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented development... |
| Episode 45 | October 18, 2008 | Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... |
KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
| Episode 46 | October 24, 2008 | Gareth Greenaway, Shyam Kapadia | SCALE Scale -Length:* Architect's scale, a ruler-like device which facilitates the production of technical drawings* Engineer's scale, a ruler-like device similar to the Architect's scale, they are helpful when drawing rooms... |
| Episode 47 | November 21, 2008 | George Conard, Adam Monsen | MicroFinance Open Source MicroFinance Open Source Mifos is an initiative of the Grameen Foundation and the financial software that it produces for the microfinance industry. The software provides key functionality for microfinance institutions: client management, portfolio management, loan repayment tracking, fee and savings transactions, and... |
| Episode 48 | November 29, 2008 | Joe Brockmeier | openSUSE OpenSUSE openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE... |
| Episode 49 | December 7, 2008 | Peter Saint-Andre | XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open-standard communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML . The protocol was originally named Jabber, and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999 for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging , presence... |
| 2009 FLOSS Weekly episode list | |||
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| URL | Date | Guest | Project / Company |
| Episode 50 | January 3, 2009 | Jeff Squyres | Open MPI Open MPI Open MPI is a Message Passing Interface library project combining technologies and resources from several other projects . It is used by many TOP500 supercomputers including Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer from June 2008 to November 2009, and K computer, the fastest... |
| Episode 51 | January 10, 2009 | Daniel Stenberg | cURL CURL cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL... |
| Episode 52 | January 17, 2009 | Casey Reas, Ben Fry Benjamin Fry Benjamin Fry is an American expert in data visualization, principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy in Boston, MA, a co-creator of Processing, an open source programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with... |
Processing Processing (programming language) Processing is an open source programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the basics of computer programming in a visual context, and to serve as the foundation for electronic sketchbooks... |
| Episode 53 | January 24, 2009 | Chuck Syperski, Jian Zhang | FOG |
| Episode 54 | January 30, 2009 | Quim Gil | Maemo |
| Episode 55 | February 7, 2009 | John Resig John Resig John Resig is an application developer at Khan Academy. He was a JavaScript tool developer for the Mozilla Corporation. He is also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. This library's goal is to simplify the process of writing cross-browser JavaScript code... |
jQuery JQuery jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig... |
| Episode 56 | February 14, 2009 | David Chisnall David Chisnall David "Dave" Chisnall is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Leigh , Warrington, St. Helens, and Barrow, playing at , i.e... , Quentin Mathé |
Étoilé Étoilé Étoilé is a GNUstep-based free software desktop environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or recombining provided services , and other... |
| Episode 57 | February 21, 2009 | Scott Davilla, Jonathan Marshall | XBMC |
| Episode 58 | February 28, 2009 | Aaron Newcomb, David Brittlel | ZFS ZFS In computing, ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes , support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management,... |
| Episode 59 | March 7, 2009 | Bill Kendrick Bill Kendrick Bill Kendrick is an American software engineer best known for creating and maintaining Tux Paint, an open source bitmap graphics editor for children. He is also co-founder of the Linux Users' Group of Davis in Davis, California... , David Bruce David Bruce David Bruce may refer to:* David Bruce , founder of the Firkin Brewery pub chain*David Bruce , Scottish physician* David II of Scotland , David Bruce, King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce... |
TuxPaint |
| Episode 60 | March 14, 2009 | David P. Anderson David P. Anderson David Pope Anderson is a Research Scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston... |
BOINC |
| Episode 61 | March 21, 2009 | Massimo Banzi | Arduino Arduino Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR... |
| Episode 62 | March 28, 2009 | Javier Uruen | Zentyal |
| Episode 63 | April 4, 2009 | Agostino Russo | Wubi |
| Episode 64 | April 11, 2009 | Selena Deckelmann, Audrey Eschright | The Open Source Bridge Conference |
| Episode 65 | April 18, 2009 | Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... |
Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... |
| Episode 66 | April 25, 2009 | Bryan Berry | Open Learning Exchange Nepal |
| Episode 67 | May 2, 2009 | Ian Pratt | Xen Xen Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.... |
| Episode 68 | May 9, 2009 | Joel Holdsworth, Aaron Newcomb | Cinelerra Cinelerra Cinelerra is prosumer video editing software. It is designed for the GNU/Linux operating system. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License... |
| Episode 69 | May 16, 2009 | Sean Moss-Pultz, Christopher Hall Christopher Hall Christopher Hall may refer to:People*Christopher Newman Hall, English clergyman*Christopher Hall *Christopher Hall , singer*Christopher Hall *Christopher Hall Places... |
Openmoko Openmoko Openmoko is a project to create a family of open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification and the operating system. The project was sponsored by Openmoko Inc.... |
| Episode 70 | May 24, 2009 | Ken Glimer | Bug Labs Bug Labs Bug Labs is a technology company headquartered in New York City that develops and sells open-source hardware peripherals for rapid prototyping of electronic devices. The company developed a Lego-like hardware platform that technology enthusiasts, hobbyists and engineers can use to create their own... |
| Episode 71 | May 30, 2009 | Paul W. Frields | Fedora Fedora (operating system) Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat... |
| Episode 72 | June 6, 2009 | Justin Clark-Casey | OpenSim OpenSim OpenSim may refer to one of several software packages/platforms:* simtk-opensim, biomechanics simulation software from NIH National Center for Biomedical Computation* OpenSimulator, an open source project to develop virtual worlds... |
| Episode 73 | June 13, 2009 | Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:... |
O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics... |
| Episode 74 | June 20, 2009 | Jeff Sheltren | OSU Open Source Lab |
| Episode 75 | June 27, 2009 | Glynn Foster | OpenSolaris OpenSolaris OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software... |
| Episode 76 | July 4, 2009 | Jon A. Cruz, Ted Gould | Inkscape Inkscape Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard.... |
| Episode 77 | July 12, 2009 | Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... |
Ubuntu Ubuntu (operating system) Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu... |
| Episode 78 | July 19, 2009 | Christopher "Sean" Morrison | BZFlag BZFlag BZFlag is a free, open source, online multiplayer video game.A first-person tank battle game, similar in concept to Battlezone, it was originally written by Chris Schoeneman for SGI graphics workstations running IRIX, but has now been ported to other operating systems including... |
| Episode 79 | July 26, 2009 | David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki... |
Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:... |
| Episode 80 | August 1, 2009 | Eugene Sandulenko | ScummVM ScummVM ScummVM is a collection of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system , it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus... |
| Episode 81 | August 8, 2009 | Steve Coast | OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The... |
| Episode 82 | August 15, 2009 | Michael Foord | IronPython IronPython IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET Framework and Mono. Jim Hugunin created the project and actively contributed to it up until Version 1.0 which was released on September 5, 2006. Thereafter, it was maintained by a small team at Microsoft until... |
| Episode 83 | August 22, 2009 | Jeffrey T. Darlington, Christopher B. Wright Christopher B. Wright Christopher B. Wright is the creator of the webcomics Help Desk and Kernel Panic. Born 1971-07-02 in the Commonwealth of Virginia, he is a Technical writer by profession. For a brief period of time he served as Editor in chief of .... , Chris Kohler |
Webcomic Webcomic Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books.... s |
| Episode 84 | August 29, 2009 | Eric Jung | FoxyProxy |
| Episode 85 | September 5, 2009 | Jim Zemlin | Linux Foundation Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation is a non-profit technology consortium chartered to foster the growth of Linux.Founded in 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group , the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading... , LinuxCon LinuxCon LinuxCon is an annual convention organized in North America each year since 2009 by the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation also organize LinuxCon events in other continents, to date Japan and Brazil.... |
| Episode 86 | September 12, 2009 | Paul Davis Paul Davis (programmer) Paul Davis is a British software developer best known for his work on audio software for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com.... |
Ardour Ardour (audio processor) Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit... |
| Episode 87 | September 19, 2009 | Kent Beck Kent Beck Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.... |
Extreme programming Extreme Programming Extreme programming is a software development methodology which is intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements... |
| Episode 88 | September 26, 2009 | Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
| Episode 89 | October 1, 2009 | Aaron Roe Fulkerson Aaron Roe Fulkerson Aaron Roe Fulkerson is an information technology businessman and founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model, collaborative networks, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software.... |
MindTouch MindTouch MindTouch, Inc., an open-source software-development company based in San Diego, California, USA, started in January, 2005 with offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota and Bellevue, Washington. It merged all its offices in San Diego in February 2007.-History:... |
| Episode 90 | October 8, 2009 | Peter Higgins | Dojo Toolkit Dojo Toolkit Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and web sites. It was started by Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann, David Schontzler, and others in 2004 and is dual-licensed under the modified BSD... |
| Episode 91 | October 15, 2009 | Roy Schestowitz | Boycott Novell |
| Episode 92 | October 24, 2009 | Bre Pettis Bre Pettis Bre Pettis is an entrepreneur, video blogger and multi-artist. He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE, and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel. He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space NYC Resistor.Pettis is a co-founder and the CEO of MakerBot... |
MakerBot Industries MakerBot Industries MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach "Hoeken" Smith producing open source hardware, specifically 3D printers... |
| Episode 93 | November 1, 2009 | Luke Kanies | Puppet |
| Episode 94 | November 5, 2009 | Rob Savoye Rob Savoye Rob Savoye is the primary developer of Gnash. He is a developer for the GNU Project, having worked on Debian, Red Hat and dozens of other free/open source software projects. He was among the first employees of Cygnus Support, which was sold to Red Hat in 2001.... |
Gnash Gnash Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files. Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded device, as well as a plugin for several browsers. It is part of the GNU Project and is a Free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player... |
| Episode 95 | November 13, 2009 | Jim Killock | Open Rights Group Open Rights Group The Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues, acting as a media clearinghouse service putting journalists in touch with experts, and by fostering a community of grassroots activists... |
| Episode 96 | November 20, 2009 | Jason Stajich, Chris Fields | BioPerl BioPerl BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role in the Human Genome Project.... |
| Episode 97 | December 1, 2009 | Wolfgang Meier | eXist EXist eXist is an open source database management system entirely built on XML technology, also called a native XML database. Unlike most relational database management systems, eXist uses XQuery, which is a , to manipulate its data.- eXist Benefits :... |
| Episode 98 | December 3, 2009 | Joe Brockmeier | openSUSE OpenSUSE openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE... |
| Episode 99 | December 10, 2009 | Stuart Langridge Stuart Langridge Stuart Langridge is the author of two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005... |
Ubuntu One Ubuntu One Ubuntu One is a personal cloud service operated by Canonical Ltd.The service enables users to store files online and sync them between computers and mobile devices, as well as stream audio and music from cloud to mobile devices.- Features :... |
| Episode 100 | December 17, 2009 | Chris DiBona Chris DiBona Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google... |
100th anniversary and Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... |
| Episode 101 | December 24, 2009 | Scott Ullrich, Chris Buechler | pfSense PfSense pfSense is an open source firewall/router distribution based on FreeBSD. pfSense is meant to be installed on a personal computer and is noted for its reliability and offering features often only found in expensive commercial firewalls. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based... |
| 2010 FLOSS Weekly episode list | ||||
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| URL | Date | Host | Guest | Project / Company |
| Episode 102 | January 1, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Frank Wierzbicki | Jython Jython Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java.-Overview:Jython programs can seamlessly import and use any Java class. Except for some standard modules, Jython programs use Java classes instead of Python modules... |
| Episode 103 | January 6, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Jeff Davis | Open Source Service-oriented architecture Service-oriented architecture In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for... |
| Episode 104 | January 14, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Randi Harper (FreeBSDgirl) | FreeBSD FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant... |
| Episode 105 | January 22, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Michael Dirolf | MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB is an open source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database written in the C++ programming language... |
| Episode 106 | February 1, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Mark Burgess Mark Burgess (computer scientist) Mark Burgess is a researcher and writer at Oslo University College in Norway, who is well known for work in computer science in the field of policy-based configuration management.... |
Cfengine Cfengine CFEngine is a popular open source configuration managementsystem, written by Mark Burgess.Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and... |
| Episode 107 | February 4, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Matthew Gates | Stellarium Stellarium Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.... |
| Episode 108 | February 11, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Henrique Bastos | Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... /pyCon |
| Episode 109 | February 18, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Sebastian Brannstrom | Symbian Symbian Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user... |
| Episode 110 | February 25, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Jamie Camron | Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
| Episode 111 | March 4, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Bill Hoffman | CMake CMake CMake is a cross-platform, open-source system for managing the build process of software using a compiler-independent method. It is designed to support directory hierarchies and applications that depend on multiple libraries, and for use in conjunction with native build environments such as Make,... |
| Episode 112 | March 10, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Carlos Puchol | Amahi |
| Episode 113 | March 18, 2010 | Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Former Open Source Program Manager at Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
| Episode 114 | March 25, 2010 | Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Amber Graner | Ada Lovelace Day |
| Episode 115 | April 1, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
Doug Smith | ACM/IEEE Super Computing Challenge |
| Episode 116 | April 8, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Leo Laporte Leo Laporte Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry.... |
James Snyder | eLua |
| Episode 117 | April 20, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Bob Jacobsen | JMRI.org |
| Episode 118 | April 22, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Randi Harper |
Shawn Pearce | Gerrit Gerrit (software) Gerrit is a free, web-based collaborative code review tool that integrates with Git. It has been developed at Google by Shawn Pearce for the development of the Android project.... |
| Episode 119 | May 6, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Scott Maxwell, Paolo Bellutta | Mars Rover Driver Team |
| Episode 120 | May 13, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... |
Ryan Leavengood and Niels Sascha Reedijk | Haiku OS Haiku (operating system) Haiku is a free and open source operating system compatible with BeOS. Its development began in 2001, and the operating system became self-hosting in 2008, with the first alpha release in September 2009, the second in May 2010 and the third in June 2011.... |
| Episode 121 | May 27, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Jonathan Simpson | Freenode Freenode freenode, formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC network used to discuss peer-directed projects. Their servers are all accessible from the domain name [irc://chat.freenode.net chat.freenode.net], which load balances connections by using the actual servers in rotation... |
| Episode 122 | June 3, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... |
Matt Mackall | Mercurial Mercurial Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux... |
| Episode 123 | June 10, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Nichole Yankelovich | Open Wonderland |
| Episode 124 | June 17, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Matt Ray, Mark Hinkle Mark Hinkle Mark Hinkle is an American libertarian activist and businessman. He is the National Chairman of the United States Libertarian Party. He was elected by the delegates of the 2010 Libertarian National Convention in St... |
Zenoss Zenoss Zenoss is an open source application, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server. Released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web interface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration,... |
| Episode 125 | June 23, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... |
David Pollack | The Lift Web Framework Lift (web framework) Lift is a free web application framework that is designed for the Scala programming language. It was originally created by who was dissatisfied with certain aspects of the Ruby on Rails framework. Lift was launched as an open-source project on February 26, 2007 under the Apache 2.0 license... |
| Episode 126 | July 7, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Michael Iedema | AskoziaPBX AskoziaPBX AskoziaPBX is an Open Source telephone system firmware originally created in 2007 by Michael Iedema.It is a fork of the m0n0wall project and uses the Asterisk private branch exchange software to realize all telephony functions.... |
| Episode 127 | July 14, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Randi Harper |
Guillermo Amaral | Open source software development in Mexico |
| Episode 128 | July 22, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Rick Clark | OpenStack OpenStack OpenStack is an IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA. Currently more than 120 companies have joined the project among which are Citrix Systems, Dell, AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, HP, and Cisco... |
| Episode 129 | August 6, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... |
Andy Gross | Riak Riak Riak is a NoSQL database implementing the principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper.Riak has a pluggable backend for its core shard-partitioned storage, with the default storage backend being Bitcask as of the 0.12 release... |
| Episode 130 | August 11, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Andy Hall, Achim Hasenmuller | VirtualBox VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products... |
| Episode 131 | August 20, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Stephen Hemminger | Vyatta Vyatta Vyatta manufactures an open source router/firewall/VPN product for Internet Protocol networks . A free download of Vyatta has been available since March 2006. The system is a specialized Debian-based Linux distribution with networking applications such as Quagga, OpenVPN, and many others... |
| Episode 132 | August 27, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Dan Scott, Mike Rylander | Evergreen Library System Evergreen (software) Evergreen is an open source Integrated Library System , initially developed by the for Public Information Network for Electronic Services , a statewide resource-sharing consortium with over 270 member libraries.... |
| Episode 133 | September 2, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Scott Wilkinson Scott Wilkinson Scott Wilkinson is an actor, who has played in such films as A Crime Of Passion and A Secret Life and Harry's War. and Wish Upon A Star- External links :... |
Thomas Cherryhomes | LinuxMCE LinuxMCE LinuxMCE is a free and open source software platform with a 10-foot user interface designed to allow a computer to act as a home theater PC for the living-room TV, personal video recorder, and home automation system. It allows control of everything in the home, from lighting and climate to... |
| Episode 134 | September 8, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Walter Bender Walter Bender Walter Bender is technologist and researcher who has made important contributions in the field of electronic publishing, media, and technology for learning. Bender is on leave as a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab which he led as executive director between 2000 and 2006... |
SugarLabs |
| Episode 135 | September 16, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Patrick Balleux | WebcamStudio |
| Episode 136 | September 23, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Carsten Dominik | Org-mode Org-mode Org-mode is an editing mode in the text editor Emacs which supports the editing of plain text hierarchical documents. It has specific support for a number of different use cases, such as writing to-do lists, project planning, and writing web pages... |
| Episode 137 | September 29, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Alexander Limi | Plone |
| Episode 138 | October 11, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Ross Boucher | Cappuccino Cappuccino (Application Development Framework) Cappuccino is an open source application development framework for developing web applications that look and feel like desktop applications on Mac OS X. Cappuccino was developed by University of Southern California graduates Francisco Tolmasky, Tom Robinson and Ross Boucher, who are also the three... |
| Episode 139 | October 13, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Luis Sala, John Newton | Alfresco Alfresco (software) Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary... |
| Episode 140 | October 29, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Patrick Michaud | Rakudo Perl Rakudo Perl Rakudo Perl is a compiler that implements the Perl 6 specification and runs on the Parrot virtual machine. Rakudo Perl is currently in development.... |
| Episode 141 | November 10, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
James Phillips | Membase Membase Membase is an Open Source distributed, key-value database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications. These applications must service many concurrent users; creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data... |
| Episode 142 | November 17, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Karanbir Singh | Centos CentOS CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution... |
| Episode 143 | November 29, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Jonathan Abbey, Volker Bauer | Ganymede |
| Episode 144 | December 2, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Thomas Goirand | Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
| Episode 145 | December 16, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Jono Bacon Jono Bacon Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California... |
Severed Fifth Severed Fifth Severed Fifth is a San Francisco Bay Area band founded by Jono Bacon and featuring Defiance guitarist Jim Adams.The band is noted for its copyright model of distributing its music under permissive Creative Commons licenses, allowing the public to legally download and share music for free... |
| Episode 146 | December 30, 2010 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Marc Laporte | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware |
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| Episode 147 | January 5, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Aaron Newcomb | Fred Dixon | BigBlueButton BigBlueButton BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system developed primarily for distance education.- Features :As of version 0.71a, BigBlueButton supports multiple audio and video sharing, presentations with extended whiteboard capabilities - such as a pointer, zooming and drawing - public and... |
| Episode 148 | January 12, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
James Cotton, David Ankers | OpenPilot OpenPilot OpenPilot is a Free software unmanned aerial vehicle project for model aircraft aimed at supporting both multi-rotor craft as well as fixed wing aircraft... |
| Episode 149 | January 19, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
John Hogg | VoltDB VoltDB VoltDB is an in-memory database designed by several well-known database system researchers, including Michael Stonebraker , Sam Madden, and Daniel Abadi. It is an ACID-compliant RDBMS which uses a shared nothing architecture. It includes both enterprise and community editions... |
| Episode 150 | January 26, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
John Wiegley | Ledger |
| Episode 151 | February 2, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Aaron Newcomb | Chris Donough, Mark Ramm | Pylons |
| Episode 152 | February 9, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Fosdem FOSDEM FOSDEM is a non-commercial volunteer organized European event centered around free and open source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open source software movement... |
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| Episode 153 | February 16, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Aaron Newcomb | Venkat Ramasamy | Tonidoplug Tonido Tonido is a home server NAS software. Once installed on a computer, Tonido software makes that computer's files available remotely through the browser from the WAN. No port forwarding is required, as data is transmitted through Tonido's servers. Users can switch to not using Tonido's servers by... |
| Episode 154 | February 23, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Jeremy Carbaugh | Sunlight Labs Sunlight Foundation The Sunlight Foundation is a 501 educational organization founded in April 2006 with the goal of increasing transparency and accountability in the United States government.... |
| Episode 155 | March 2, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Ludovic Marcotte, Oliver Bilodeau | PacketFence PacketFence PacketFence is an open-source network access control system which provides the following features: registration, detection of abnormal network activities, proactive vulnerability scans, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, 802.1X, wireless integration and... |
| Episode 156 | March 9, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Aaron Newcomb | Dan Walsh | SELinux |
| Episode 157 | March 16, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Michael Yap, Tiensoon Law | Joget Workflow |
| Episode 158 | March 23, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Darren Schreiber, James Aimonetti | 2600hz 2600hz 2600hz is a collection of free and open-source software for communications configuration and management. It provides projects that help small and large businesses manage Voice over IP systems. Its core project, named blue.box, includes a fully functional GUI and framework for building web-based... |
| Episode 159 | March 30, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Gilad Bracha Gilad Bracha Gilad Bracha is a software engineer, a co-author of the second and third editions of the Java Language Specification, a major contributor to the second edition of the Java Virtual Machine Specification, and the creator of the Newspeak programming language.... |
Newspeak Newspeak (programming language) Newspeak is a programming language and platform in the tradition of Smalltalk and Self being developed by a team led by Gilad Bracha. The platform includes an IDE, a GUI library, and standard libraries. Starting in 2006, Cadence Design Systems funded its development and employed the main... |
| Episode 160 | April 6, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
David A. Wheeler David A. Wheeler David A. Wheeler is a computer scientist. He is best known for his work on Open source software/Free-libre software and Computer security.-Open Source Software:... |
Open Source Software at the Department Of Defense |
| Episode 161 | April 13, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Randi Harper |
Jason Huggins | Selenium Selenium (software) Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language . It also provides a test domain-specific language to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including... |
| Episode 162 | April 20, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Emil Ivov | Jitsi |
| Episode 163 | April 28, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Philip Brown, Ben Walton | OpenCSW OpenCSW The Open Community Software Project is an open-source project providing Solaris binary packages of freely available or open-source software.... |
| Episode 164 | May 4, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Randi Harper | Dustin J. Mitchell | BuildBot BuildBot BuildBot is a software development continuous integration tool which automates the compile/test cycle required to validate changes to the project code base... |
| Episode 165 | May 11, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Dan Lynch | Demise of FLOSS | |
| Episode 166 | May 18, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Sam Spilsbury | Compiz Compiz Compiz is one of the first compositing window managers for the X Window System that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management. The effects, such as a minimization effect and a cube workspace are implemented as loadable plugins... |
| Episode 167 | May 25, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Aaron Newcomb |
Matthew Flatt Matthew Flatt Matthew Flatt is a computer scientist, currently teaching at the University of Utah . He is also a member of the PLT group and, as such, responsible for the creation and maintenance of Racket.... |
Racket |
| Episode 168 | June 1, 2011 | Dan Lynch | Michael Proper, David Loper | ClearOS ClearOS ClearOS is a Linux distribution, based on CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, designed for use in small and medium enterprises as a network gateway and network server with a web-based administration interface. It is designed to be an alternative to Windows Small Business Server. ClearOS succeeds... |
| Episode 169 | June 8, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Simon Phipps Simon Phipps (programmer) Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper... |
Kohsuke Kawaguchi | Jenkins Jenkins (software) Jenkins, previously known as Hudson, is an open source continuous integration tool written in Java. The project renamed itself after a dispute with Oracle who claims the right to trademark the Hudson name and has applied for such a trademark as of December 2010... |
| Episode 170 | June 15, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Randi Harper |
Curtis Jewell | Strawberry Perl Strawberry Perl Strawberry Perl is a distribution of the Perl programming language for the Microsoft Windows platform. While most other distributions rely on the user having software development tools already set up to install certain Perl components, Strawberry Perl ships with the most commonly used tools... |
| Episode 171 | June 22, 2011 | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... , Dan Lynch |
Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn is a free software activist from the United States.Kuhn is currently Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Until 2010 he was the FLOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director of the Software Freedom Law Center . He previously served as the Executive Director of... |
Software Freedom Conservancy Software Freedom Conservancy The Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for free/open source software projects. The conservancy was established in 2006. As of June 2011, the conservancy had 26 member projects, including Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, jQuery, Samba,... |
| Episode 172 | June 29, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Aaron Newcomb | Travis Tidwell Travis Tidwell Travis Vaughn Tidwell was a two-time All-America quarterback, who led Auburn to one of their biggest upsets over arch-rival Alabama.- College Football :... |
MediaFront |
| Episode 173 | July 6, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb | Randal Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz , also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant.-Career:... |
Lessons Learned from FLOSSing Weekly FLOSS Weekly FLOSS Weekly is a free software / open source themed podcast from the TWiT Network. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It was originally hosted by Leo Laporte; his cohost for the first seventeen episodes was Chris DiBona... |
| Episode 174 | July 13, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Dan Lynch | Neal Gompa | Enano CMS |
| Episode 175 | July 20, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Paul Beckingham, Federico Hernandez | Taskwarrior Taskwarrior Taskwarrior is an open-source, cross platform time and task management tool. It has a command-line interface rather than a graphical user interface.... |
| Episode 176 | August 3, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Randi Harper | Colin Percival | Colin Percival |
| Episode 177 | August 10, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Perry McDowell | Delta3D Delta3d Delta3D is an Open Source Software gaming/simulation engine API. Primarily managed and supported by the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Alion Science has also been a major contributor to enhancements and... |
| Episode 178 | August 17, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Randi Harper | Chris Schoeneman | Synergy Synergy Synergy may be defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable.The term synergy comes from the Greek word from , , meaning "working together".-Definitions and usages:... |
| Episode 179 | August 24, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Aaron Newcom | Leif Hedstrom, Bryan Call | The Apache Traffic Server |
| Episode 180 | August 31, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Adam Armstrong Adam Armstrong Adam Alexander Armstrong, OBE, MC was an Australian politician. Born in Deniliquin, New South Wales, he was a grazier before serving in the military 1939-45 . Subsequently he became involved in local politics, serving on Conargo Shire Council... |
Observium Observium Observium is a PHP/MySQL-based Network Observation and Monitoring System which collects data from devices using SNMP and presents it via a web interface. It makes heavy use of the RRDtool package. Observium has a number of simple core design goals driving its development: minimum interaction,... |
| Episode 181 | September 7, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Tomaz Muraus | Libcloud |
| Episode 182 | September 14, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Randi Harper | Kris Moore | PC-BSD PC-BSD PC-BSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE SC as the pre-installed graphical user interface. PC-BSD provides official binary nVidia and... |
| Episode 183 | September 21, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Jonathan Ellis | Cassandra Cassandra In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy... |
| Episode 184 | September 28, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Simon Phipps Simon Phipps Simon Phipps may refer to:* Simon Phipps , conductor of the Swedish Chamber Choir* Simon Wilton Phipps, Bishop of Lincoln * Simon Phipps , British game designer... |
Graziano Obertelli | Eucalyptus Eucalyptus Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia... |
| Episode 185 | October 5, 2011 | Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps Simon Phipps Simon Phipps may refer to:* Simon Phipps , conductor of the Swedish Chamber Choir* Simon Wilton Phipps, Bishop of Lincoln * Simon Phipps , British game designer... |
Francis Irving Francis Irving Francis Irving is a 36 year old British computer programmer and activist for freedom of information.Francis Irving developed TortoiseCVS.He co-founded Public Whip with Julian Todd and became a developer of the affiliated TheyWorkForYou website, a project which parses raw Hansard data to track how... |
ScraperWiki ScraperWiki ScraperWiki is a website for collaboratively building programs to extract and analyze public data, in a wiki-like fashion. "Scraper" refers to screen scrapers, programs that extract data from websites. "Wiki" means that any user with programming experience can create or edit such programs for... |
| Episode 186 | October 12, 2011 | Aaron Newcomb, Dan Lynch | Julien Genestoux | Superfeedr |
| Episode 187 | October 19, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Aaron Newcomb | Joonas Lehtinen | Vaadin Vaadin Vaadin is an open source Web application framework for rich Internet applications. In contrast to JavaScript libraries and browser-plugin based solutions, it features a server-side architecture, which means that the majority of the logic runs on the servers. Ajax technology is used at the... |
| Episode 188 | October 26, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Dan Lynch | Massimo Di Pierro | web2py Web2py Web2py is an open source web application framework. Web2py is written in the Python language and is programmable in Python. Since web2py was originally designed as a teaching tool with emphasis on ease of use and deployment, it does not have any project-level configuration files. Web2py was... |
| Episode 189 | November 9, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Simon Phipps Simon Phipps Simon Phipps may refer to:* Simon Phipps , conductor of the Swedish Chamber Choir* Simon Wilton Phipps, Bishop of Lincoln * Simon Phipps , British game designer... |
Antonio Scuri | IUP IUP IUP may refer to:* Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the largest of the state-owned universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education* IUP Crimson Hawks, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school... |
| Episode 191 | November 16, 2011 | Randal Schwartz, Simon Phipps Simon Phipps Simon Phipps may refer to:* Simon Phipps , conductor of the Swedish Chamber Choir* Simon Wilton Phipps, Bishop of Lincoln * Simon Phipps , British game designer... |
Thomas S. Hatch | Salt Salt In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral... |