Scotland Open Source
Scotland Open Source talks to maintainers, advocates and companies from Scotland’s vibrant open source community. Hosted by Ashley Nicolson, we have in-depth conversations on all aspects of open source often from the different perspective of working full-time in its communities. We also help promote our guests and their projects and generally discuss the importance and impact of open source in the Scottish tech industry. Scotland Open Source podcast is part of Scotland Open Source Users Meetups.
- Update frequency
- every 55 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Ep06 - Supporting FOSS Maintainers, handling conflict, Homebrew & Software Freedom Conservancy with Mike McQuaid
On this episode we welcome Mike McQuaid, a long standing maintainer (10+ years) and project lead of Homebrew. We talk about Mike’s journey of becoming a maintainer and how he manages to sustain a hea…
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Ep05 - Open Source in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Glasgow with Dr Bernd Porr
We're joined by Dr Bernd Porr from the Engineering school of Glasgow University to discuss how and why he has introduced open source to his Biomedical Engineering students. We talk about the importan…
00:48:28 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
Ep04 - KDE & the future of apps, Open Development applied to non tech communities & OpenUK with Jonathan Riddell
In this episode we talk to a well know figure in Scottish open source and influencer Jonathan Riddell, the creator of Kubuntu and KDE Neon (among other amazing open source contributions). We talk abo…
00:41:54 |
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Ep03 - Exploitation of FOSS developers, Education and PR to help projects with Greg Sutcliffe
In this episode we talk to long time open source veteran Greg Sutcliffe, a community data scientist and part of the community team on the Ansible project. We explore the exploitations of open source …
00:37:23 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Ep02 - Ensuring longevity after unfortunate circumstances in OSS Projects with Gary Ewan Park
It's a not a topic that us open source maintainers and contributors want to think about too often. What if I get hit by a bus tomorrow? What happens to my code and all the users that utilise it? In t…
00:36:18 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Ep01 - Hackerspaces in Northern Scotland with Tom Jones
Super excited to welcome everyone to Scotland Open Source first episode! We have the amazing pleasure of speaking to Tom Jones, an extremely successful tech and hackerspace organiser and FreeBSD cont…
00:29:48 |
Wed 27 May 2020
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