Open Source History, Foundations, Sustainability (Request For Commits #16)

Danese Cooper joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the history of open source, how the term became a thing via Tim O’Reilly, feeling empowered as an open source contributor, companies’ relationship to open source, foundations and their role (or not) in governance and sustainability.

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Featuring:

• Danese Cooper – Website, GitHub, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Tim O’Reilly: Official Bio


• Free Software Foundation - working together for free software


• OSCON

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