My Open Source Experience Podcast

As humanity progresses, our dependency on digital infrastructure is growing and is now at a level where most of us cannot exist without it, it is part of our everyday life and our livelihood depends …

When people talk about open source and government in the same sentence, it is most often about legislations, regulations and some kind of complaint along these lines. Some governments are still learn…

Getting involved and investing time and resources into upstream projects can be a complicated decision and process for individuals and companies alike. Have you experienced this already?

In this episo…

Ildiko and Phil kick off 2025 in this My Open Source Experience podcast episode!

Learn more about:

- The Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), a new EU legislation affecting the open source ecosystem, that lande…

In this MOSE Short Nithya Ruff, Ildiko and Phil talk about the importance of motivation, which applies to open source projects just as much as everything else that people get involved in.

Many open so…

In this MOSE Short segment Emily Lovell talks about her experience teaching at different academic institutions, both large and small.

A small teaching school provides opportunities to be more agile an…

If you do open source right, you get a lot of benefits, both as an individual and as a company or orgnization. On the other hand, misconceptions about open source often lead to bad decisions, where e…

Governments around the globe have been recognizing that open source code is a core dependency in every modern software solution. Whether or not it is a good thing that is still a question. But one th…

In this episode of the My Open Source Experience podcast, Gregory Kurtzer shares his experience in creating and guiding multiple open source Linux operating system projects.

Have you ever wondered why…

We can establish that if you are using any (semi-)modern digital infrastructure or applications, then you are depending on open source software. Have you ever thought about that as actual dependency?…

Have you ever wished your company was moving faster with developing new solutions? Or, that maintaining software wasn't such a huge burden?

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Ildiko and…

Did you know that collaborative software development existed before the term 'open source'? Do you know what important role open source foundations play in the ecosystem? Do you understand the differ…

Did you know that you don't need to work in a public environment to practice open source methods and practices? It's called InnerSource, and your company can start practicing it today!

Just like open …

Did you know that you will need to spend more time and effort doing code reviews before using AI-generated code?

AI is heavily utilized in work environments already, it enhances efficiency and product…

You made the decision to invest in open source and tackle working upstream. Have you figured out how to manage your team's allocation between working int he community versus on your products and serv…

In this MOSE Short segment Stefano Maffulli, Ildiko and Phil talk about the early days of the OpenStack community.

With one dominant contributing company at the beginning, it was important to put care…

In this MOSE Short, Uriel Ofir, Ildiko and Phil touch on how important roles that go beyond code development, are to open source communities. Making the code work is the first step towards the succes…

In this MOSE Short, Emily Lovell, Ildiko and Phil talk about why it is crucial to have open source included in the core curriculum of academic institutions, and how it can still be a long road to imp…